Photo: Urban Air Adventure Parks
On September 1, Kimberly Barnes’ son was attending his friend’s birthday party at Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in Lakeland, Florida, when he decided to try out the park’s zip line ride called the Sky Rider, according toCNN.
While on the ride — which carries a harnessed rider on a track along the park’s ceiling — the young boy slipped from his harness and fell over 20 ft. onto the concrete floor below. The incident was captured in the park’ssurveillance footage.
Barnes’ attorney,Steven Capriati, detailed the young boy’s injuries at the conference, which included several broken bones, a collapsed lung and brain injury. He was taken Tampa General Hospital where he had surgery and remained for several days.
According to WTSP, investigators said that the incident was a result of the harness not being properly secured around the child. The initial findings reportedly say that the leg straps were not buckled, leaving Barnes’ son to hold on with just his arms until he fell.
Urban Air Adventure Parks
The Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park said in their own statement to PEOPLE that they are “fully committed to the uncompromising safety and well-being of our guests and employees.”
“As a family-owned and operated company, safety is at the heart of everything we do. We take matters of this nature very seriously and can assure that appropriate measures have been taken,” the statement continued. “All staff members have been retrained on all attractions and the employees in question are no longer with us. We are thankful to hear that the child is back in school and we will continue to keep him and his family in our thoughts and prayers through his full recovery.”
Barnes confirmed that her son has since returned to school but only attends “as he can tolerate it.”
source: people.com
