Child Injury Lawyer Blog
By David A. Wolf, Attorney – Child Injury Lawyer Blog
Over the past few years, there has been a growth in the number and presence of trampoline parks and indoor bounce house locations and facilities. While these recreation, sports, amusement park, and theme park attractions can be great ways to have fun and exercise, they are also the locations of unfortunate and preventable injuries to children. There are risks with any forms of physical activity and sports. There are also safety measures and rules that should be followed to reduce these risks. If children, parents, and facility supervisors follow and enforce the rules and safety measures, many personal injuries can be prevented.When a child is a guest or visitor to a trampoline park or bounce house, there is a duty on the part of the trampoline park / bounce house operator and owner to provide a reasonably safe play environment for the children. The duty is one of the four elements necessary to prove up a case for personal injuries on behalf of the injured child. The four elements are as the following:
Proper maintenance and supervision are essential for the safety of children in school, day care, summer camp, and other locations. There have been reports of children suffering serious injuries even dying as a result of items being left in and around the playground. Two recent incidents involved the strangulation of a child in a playground. One was strangulated by a jump rose and the other was strangulated by some type rope or twine. If the items were not left in the playground area and / or there was proper supervision in place, the incidents would have likely been prevented.