Gym Equipment Accident Leads To Broken Ribs

The accident took place at a Virgin Gym on the Strand in London when the 49 - term mature man was lifting weights as scrap of his daily work out. The man had been using an inflatable stability ball, of a kind found in gyms across the country to back his back whilst lifting the weights. In the man’s own words, he heard a “big bang” and the pole “just unredeemed from underneath ( him ) ”. The man was taken to hospital where his injuries were assessed. The 80kg weight he had been lifting at the juncture had caused extensive damage to his chest, jump 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 open to breaching the duty of care it owed to all members under the Health and Safety Act. According to the gym group’s counsel, the previous health and safety supervisor at the site had failed to move out a extensive 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 laugh if they were agonized, scuffed or cut or the outermost rubber was sore in any other way.
Making a claim for broken ribs or other gym related injury
This case highlights two issues intimate to anyone who deals with personal injury law, the issues of defective equipment and of poverty-stricken health and safety procedures. In this case the fit-out 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 biased congruous care of the equipment that was provided for members’ use and they also had not been made aware of the risks stagy by the inflatable stability balls – falsely trustworthy the balls would not crack up if agonized.
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 played out 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 backwash 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.