> Injuries at the park happened so frequently that NHS chiefs demanded a meeting with park bosses to discuss safety fears.
Okay that’s definitely a cause for concern
> David Shuttleworth and Matthew Melling, both 33, admitted an offence of failing to prevent exposure to risk under the Health and Safety Act at Chester Crown Court.
> The investigation by Cheshire West and Chester Council found the business had a ‘total disregard for safety regulations’.
>The council’s cabinet member for homes, planning and safer communities, Christine Warner, said: ‘Injuries in this case included 11 fractured spines, as well as other serious injuries.
>’Those injured on a daily basis included both adults and children.’
>Visitors were left traumatised after suffering life-changing injuries at the park.
Okay so criminal negligence.
They basically created the UK’s equivalent to America’s action park
> The charges are said to relate to an investigation into 270 incidents over a seven-week period from December 2016 to February 2017.
That’s a recorded safety incident every other day. And that’s just the ones which get reported.
To ignore that for more than a couple of weeks is frightening.
I started working as a marshal in a trampoline place that had been built in a large factory space.
I pointed out the dangers of the Steel RSJs that ran the entire length of the buildings walls, only to be met with ‘there’s safety nets, no problem’.
I walked along the safety net line and pushed it where there was a steel upright.
Oh look here, any kid bouncing here will clearly hit the beam….
Was sacked 2 weeks later for taking a drink on the hottest day of the year
Got one of these places in the city near me.
Why people think that they are 100% safe is beyond me. The foam pits are there to soften the blow and not stop it. Just like ball pits. The trampolines themselves are hard and people think because they see kids on them that they are OK. They really aren’t and adults/Teenagers can generate more force to which they become deadly.
End of the day trampolining is a gymnastic sport and is dangerous. I’m not saying the owners aren’t at fault but people need to use some common sense as well.
*The charges are said to relate to an investigation into 270 incidents over a seven-week period from December 2016 to February 2017.*
That’s 5.5 incidents a day (assuming it was open 7 days a week) and if you think about opening hours (let’s say 8 to 8) that’s a incident every couple of hours. WTF?!?!?
Trampolines are terrifying. It’s the way you can bounce at the wrong angle, your brain calculates your trajectory, you realise what you’re about to land on, and have a couple of seconds to contemplate your fate while being able to do nothing about it.
The foam pit thing is terrible and is clearly negligence, the women who split her lip in a parkour training area and complained about the walls being padded was simply in the wrong place without the necessary skills to look after herself. That area shouldn’t have been accessible to the general public without a competency test, like you’d get a climbing gym before being allowed to lead climb unsupervised. But it wasn’t intrinsically unsafe.
My daughter has reached the age where her friends parents pick these for birthday parties instead of soft play type stuff, absolutely terrifying to watch kids on them.
Three broken backs in a SINGLE DAY and they didn’t think maybe their idea was bad?
My son had a birthday party at the Peterborough one. I took him out to their dodgy cafe. When I was there a parent broke their ankle and they just put a cone around them and left them to call an ambulance. There was also another kid who got a stinger due to bigger kids launching the little ones off a bouncy course.
It looked and felt unsafe. Never again
I was thinking of going to this place last week. But it seems like it has its ups and downs
This may be shocking to hear but foam pits that are too shallow and aren’t backed up with trampolines below can lead to serious injury.
Obviously you have to be willfully negligent and absolutely stupid to fail to take steps to make changes to man your venue you safer when you three people fracture there spines in one day.
270 incidences in seven weeks ?????
At the 1st ;20 incidences someone should have stepped in and shut the venue promptly it’s absolutely unacceptable.
There are other people culpable besides the venue operators in my view and that includes those who had the power to suspend or stop the venue even if temporarily but did nothing
So, where was the health & safety executive, surely this is a RIDOR. Seems to me there is bot just one party to blame.
Turns out the women in the latest incident were trying to do a double backflip. I wonder how many incidents have happened due to people attempting to do things like this? I get its a trampoline park but attempting an act like that to which you have zero experience in isn’t going to end well.
Oh, this is why all of the venues changed branding recently. Makes sense.
Don’t understand why the HSE doesn’t investigate after the first incident, shut the place down until it’s made “safe”
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There’s a conviction they won’t…
…bounce back from.
> Injuries at the park happened so frequently that NHS chiefs demanded a meeting with park bosses to discuss safety fears.
Okay that’s definitely a cause for concern
> David Shuttleworth and Matthew Melling, both 33, admitted an offence of failing to prevent exposure to risk under the Health and Safety Act at Chester Crown Court.
> The investigation by Cheshire West and Chester Council found the business had a ‘total disregard for safety regulations’.
>The council’s cabinet member for homes, planning and safer communities, Christine Warner, said: ‘Injuries in this case included 11 fractured spines, as well as other serious injuries.
>’Those injured on a daily basis included both adults and children.’
>Visitors were left traumatised after suffering life-changing injuries at the park.
Okay so criminal negligence.
They basically created the UK’s equivalent to America’s action park
> The charges are said to relate to an investigation into 270 incidents over a seven-week period from December 2016 to February 2017.
That’s a recorded safety incident every other day. And that’s just the ones which get reported.
To ignore that for more than a couple of weeks is frightening.
I started working as a marshal in a trampoline place that had been built in a large factory space.
I pointed out the dangers of the Steel RSJs that ran the entire length of the buildings walls, only to be met with ‘there’s safety nets, no problem’.
I walked along the safety net line and pushed it where there was a steel upright.
Oh look here, any kid bouncing here will clearly hit the beam….
Was sacked 2 weeks later for taking a drink on the hottest day of the year
Got one of these places in the city near me.
Why people think that they are 100% safe is beyond me. The foam pits are there to soften the blow and not stop it. Just like ball pits. The trampolines themselves are hard and people think because they see kids on them that they are OK. They really aren’t and adults/Teenagers can generate more force to which they become deadly.
End of the day trampolining is a gymnastic sport and is dangerous. I’m not saying the owners aren’t at fault but people need to use some common sense as well.
*The charges are said to relate to an investigation into 270 incidents over a seven-week period from December 2016 to February 2017.*
That’s 5.5 incidents a day (assuming it was open 7 days a week) and if you think about opening hours (let’s say 8 to 8) that’s a incident every couple of hours. WTF?!?!?
Trampolines are terrifying. It’s the way you can bounce at the wrong angle, your brain calculates your trajectory, you realise what you’re about to land on, and have a couple of seconds to contemplate your fate while being able to do nothing about it.
[Kids, kids – once you get hurt, move aside and let other people jump.](https://youtu.be/dxupN_AdFDg?si=1jFTbjW_8WdAqlBK)
The foam pit thing is terrible and is clearly negligence, the women who split her lip in a parkour training area and complained about the walls being padded was simply in the wrong place without the necessary skills to look after herself. That area shouldn’t have been accessible to the general public without a competency test, like you’d get a climbing gym before being allowed to lead climb unsupervised. But it wasn’t intrinsically unsafe.
My daughter has reached the age where her friends parents pick these for birthday parties instead of soft play type stuff, absolutely terrifying to watch kids on them.
Three broken backs in a SINGLE DAY and they didn’t think maybe their idea was bad?
My son had a birthday party at the Peterborough one. I took him out to their dodgy cafe. When I was there a parent broke their ankle and they just put a cone around them and left them to call an ambulance. There was also another kid who got a stinger due to bigger kids launching the little ones off a bouncy course.
It looked and felt unsafe. Never again
I was thinking of going to this place last week. But it seems like it has its ups and downs
[A similar thing happened at Twitchcon.](https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/twitch-streamer-breaks-back-in-two-places-in-foam-pit-at-twitchcon-3325827)
This may be shocking to hear but foam pits that are too shallow and aren’t backed up with trampolines below can lead to serious injury.
Obviously you have to be willfully negligent and absolutely stupid to fail to take steps to make changes to man your venue you safer when you three people fracture there spines in one day.
270 incidences in seven weeks ?????
At the 1st ;20 incidences someone should have stepped in and shut the venue promptly it’s absolutely unacceptable.
There are other people culpable besides the venue operators in my view and that includes those who had the power to suspend or stop the venue even if temporarily but did nothing
So, where was the health & safety executive, surely this is a RIDOR. Seems to me there is bot just one party to blame.
Turns out the women in the latest incident were trying to do a double backflip. I wonder how many incidents have happened due to people attempting to do things like this? I get its a trampoline park but attempting an act like that to which you have zero experience in isn’t going to end well.
Oh, this is why all of the venues changed branding recently. Makes sense.
Don’t understand why the HSE doesn’t investigate after the first incident, shut the place down until it’s made “safe”