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 - eternity mature man was lifting weights as fragment of his daily work out. The man had been using an inflatable stability ball, of a kind establish in gyms across the country to pillar his back whilst lifting the weights. In the man’s own words, he heard a “big bang” and the reinforcement “just disoriented from below ( him ) ”. The man was taken to hospital where his injuries were assessed. The 80kg weight he had been lifting at the time had caused extensive damage to his chest, kick-off 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 executive to breaching the duty of care it owed to all members under the Health and Safety Act. According to the gym group’s advocate, the previous health and safety executive at the site had failed to take out a widespread 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 if they were mauled, scuffed or cut or the foreign rubber was crushed 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 in rags health and safety procedures. In this case the syndicate of these two factors lead to a very serious accident for the gym user which could very well have been fatal. The gym bastinado had not into true care of the equipment that was provided for members’ use and they also had not been made aware of the risks unnatural by the inflatable stability balls – falsely come through the balls would not split if stricken.
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 indigent 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 eventuality 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.