CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT MAY RESULT IN SERIOUS LAWSUIT—CONTACT CALIFORNIA PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS NOW
It is always an unfortunate situation when children get hurt, whether it is because of the negligence of others, or because the child just inadvertently injured himself. Injuries on playgrounds can be increasingly common, and may be the responsibility of the people who maintain the area. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted a special study on the injuries and deaths associated with children’s playground equipment and found:
- There were 205,850 playground related injuries in 1999 that were treated in hospitals;
- Seventy-five percent of the above injuries were on playground equipment designed for public use, 22.8% were on equipment for home use and 1.4% occurred on equipment that was homemade;
- About half of the injuries involved climbers in playground equipment and 60% of the incidents occurred on “horizontal ladders”;
- Approximately 79% of the injuries on public equipment involved falls to the ground below and 81% of the injuries on home equipment were a result of falls from the equipment;
- For the ten years between 1990 and 2000, there were 147 deaths to children 15 years old and younger that involved playground equipment.
If your child sustained injuries at a public or private playground, you may still have remedies to recover your damages. You are not alone in this process—the attorneys at The Rudman Law Firm, PLC may be able to help you. We may not be able to bring back your child or undo an injury, but we can help you legally. Call us now at 1-800-252-9776 (1-800-ALAWPRO) for your free and confidential consultation. Check out our website www.alawpro.com to read more about premises liability lawsuits or product liability lawsuits.
