Pages On: Gym & Leisure Centre Injuries
For the most part, patrons of gyms and leisure centres are well aware of the potential dangers and take a degree of responsibility to protect themselves from harm. Things like not running around the poolside or being careful with weights come to mind. However, sometimes the business can be negligent in their upkeep of equipment and facilities. If such a company has caused you injury, and you’re not at fault, you may be eligible to claim occupiers liability compensation.
Gym company fined £80,000 over injuries
Posted: 16 May 2015
Posted in: Gym & Leisure Centre Injuries, Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents
A gym company has been fined £80,000 after one of its members was left blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other when a gym session went wrong. Company executive 47-year-old Mauro Carneiro had been using a stability ball and resistance bands in a David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) gym when the bands gave way and catapulted a metal ‘D-ring’ into his face. Personal trainer, Ian Donaldson, was with Mr Carneiro when the accident happened, and immediately phoned an ambulance. It was heard that Mr Donaldson purchased the bands…
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Holiday company fined £20,000 over young girl’s death
Posted: 30 November 2013
Posted in: Gym & Leisure Centre Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Wrongful & Accidental Death
A Flintshire-based holiday company has been fined £20,000 after a 7-year-old girl got into some difficulty and drowned in the facility’s swimming pool. Seojin Kim, from Birmingham, had been on holiday with her family at Talacre Beach Caravan and Leisure Park in October 2010 when the accident happened. The former owners of the leisure site, Plas Coch Holiday Homes, admitted to safety breaches in 2012 and were also ordered to pay £32,000 costs. Despite admitting to a lack of risk assessment surrounding the operation of the swimming pool,…
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Injuries sustained after pool at LA Fitness Erdington collapses
Posted: 24 June 2013
Posted in: Gym & Leisure Centre Injuries, Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents
Four people have sustained injuries after the pool’s ceiling at the LA Fitness Centre in Erdington collapsed. The incident happened yesterday morning (Sunday) at 09:30 BST, resulting in around 50 people being evacuated from the centre. LA Fitness was founded in 1990It was voted ‘UK’s no.1 health and fitness brand’ in 2011It now has around 80 clubs nationwideIt now has around 200,000 members Most clubs hold around 40 free classes a week After the plasterboard ceiling gave way above the Birmingham swimming pool, four people – who had been in the pool…
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Bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease found in swimming pool
Posted: 3 June 2013
Posted in: Gym & Leisure Centre Injuries, Public Place Accidents
After routine checks were recently carried out at the public swimming pool in Swindon – lethal bacteria has been discovered in the showers. Legionnaires’ disease is a bacterial disease which can cause pneumonia and lung infections. The bacteria which causes this illness – legionella pneumophila – can be found in both natural and man-made water systems with symptoms that can take up to ten days to surface. Legionnaires’ disease was first recognised after there was a serious outbreak at an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia in 1976 – hence the…
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