Gym Equipment Accident Leads To Broken Ribs

Gym Equipment Accident Leads To Broken Ribs

The accident took place at a Virgin Gym on the Strand in London when the 49 - hour senile man was lifting weights as segment of his daily work out. The man had been using an inflatable stability ball, of a kind form in gyms across the country to footing his back whilst lifting the weights. In the man’s own words, he heard a “big bang” and the block “just kiss goodbye from subservient ( him ) ”. The man was taken to hospital where his injuries were assessed. The 80kg weight he had been lifting at the life span had caused extensive damage to his chest, opening him with broken ribs, a collapsed right lung, fluid on his lungs and other injuries to his jaw and back.
The gym was taken to court by Westminster council for health and safety breaches. Virgin Active, who ran the gym, pleaded bound to breaching the duty of care it owed to all members under the Health and Safety Act. According to the gym group’s solicitor, the previous health and safety director at the site had failed to move out a exhaustive assessment of the risks involved with using inflatable balls of the type involved in this accident. Additionally, employees at the gym were unaware that the balls were liable to die laughing if they were mutilated, scuffed or cut or the peripheral rubber was bleedin' in any other way.
Making a claim for broken ribs or other gym related injury
This case highlights two issues known to anyone who deals with personal injury law, the issues of defective equipment and of bad off health and safety procedures. In this case the circle of these two factors lead to a very serious accident for the gym user which could very well have been fatal. The gym mace had not sympathetic convenient care of the equipment that was provided for members’ use and they also had not been made aware of the risks stilted by the inflatable stability balls – falsely dependable the balls would not scream if scratched.
Whilst Camps Solicitors did not act in this case, our solicitors and legal staff have helped hundreds of people injured in accidents that have been caused by a business or organisation’s unprosperous health and safety procedures. Our personal injury lawyers have built their reputations on successfully securing compensation claims for people who have been injured as a sequence of someone else’s negligence. If you have been injured in the gym, at work or on the road and it was not your fault, we can help you to secure the accident compensation you deserve.