Trampoline Park Injury Lawyer

A trampoline park injury lawyer investigates whether a child or adult was hurt because a trampoline park failed to follow reasonable safety practices, enforce safety rules, maintain equipment, or protect jumpers from unsafe conditions.

Trampoline park injuries can involve broken bones, head injuries, neck trauma, torn ligaments, spinal injuries, and other serious injuries that require medical attention, emergency room visits, orthopedic surgeons, or emergency surgery.

Unlike backyard trampolines or home trampolines, a commercial trampoline park often includes connected jumping courts, foam pits, dodgeball areas, climbing attractions, birthday party events, and spaces where multiple people jump at the same time.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has reported that most trampoline injuries occur with multiple simultaneous users on the trampoline mat, and cervical spine injuries often involve falls, somersaults, or flips.

A lawyer can help by identifying what went wrong, preserving evidence, reviewing waiver language, investigating whether the park violated its own safety rules, and determining whether trampoline park owners, employees, manufacturers, or maintenance contractors may be liable.

A trampoline park injury lawyer may:

• Investigate how the trampoline accident happened
• Review video footage, incident reports, and witness statements
• Determine whether safety rules were enforced
• Examine the trampoline mat, trampoline frame, protective pads, foam pits, and other equipment
• Review the park’s employee manual, training materials, and inspection records
• Determine whether an employee manual obtained in litigation shows ignored safety practices
• Analyze liability waivers and whether they apply to the injured child
• Work with medical experts, orthopedic surgeons, safety experts, or engineers
• Identify all parties that may be responsible
• Pursue compensation for medical care, pain, long-term injuries, and other losses

You should contact a trampoline park injury lawyer after any severe injury, injury involving a child, disputed accident, denied claim, or situation where a waiver is being used to discourage your family from seeking legal help.

Trampoline park accidents can become difficult to prove if the park repairs equipment, deletes surveillance footage, changes staffing records, or refuses to provide an incident report.

Contacting a lawyer early is especially important when injuries happen during jumping, flips, foam pit landings, dodgeball, risky stunts, overcrowding, or a collision caused by a double bounce.

A double bounce can occur when a larger jumper lands near a smaller child, creating greater force that throws the child off balance.

These accidents are common in trampoline parks because younger kids, older children, teens, and adults may be jumping in nearby areas at the same time.

You should consider legal help if:

• A child was taken to the emergency room
• The injury required surgery or specialist treatment
• The child suffered broken bones, head injuries, neck injuries, or torn ligaments
• The park blamed your child without explaining what happened
• Another child, teen, or adult caused the injury
• The accident involved foam pits, flips, or high-risk attractions
• Equipment appeared worn, damaged, or poorly maintained
• Protective pads were missing, thin, loose, or shifted
• A waiver or liability release is being used to deny responsibility
• The park refuses to preserve video footage or provide records

Serious Injuries Requiring Medical Treatment

A trampoline park injury claim is more likely when the person hurt needed medical care beyond basic first aid.

Most injuries are not catastrophic, but trampoline park injuries can become serious when a jumper lands wrong, hits the trampoline frame, collides with another person, falls into a hard padded area, or strikes a surface beneath or outside the trampoline.

Common trampoline injuries that may support a legal claim include:

• Broken bones, including wrist, arm, ankle, tibia, fibula, femur, and lower leg bones
• Concussions and traumatic brain injuries
• Neck and back injuries
• Torn ACL, MCL, or ankle ligaments
• Dislocations
• Dental or facial trauma
• Spinal cord injuries
• Growth plate injuries in children
• Severe bruising, swelling, and soft tissue damage
• Injuries requiring emergency surgery
• Injuries causing chronic pain or mobility problems

A study published in Pediatrics reviewed 18 trampoline parks and found 13,256 injured users across 8,387,178 jumper hours, with 11% classified as significant injuries.

Injury rates were highest in high-performance areas and inflatable bag or foam pit areas.

Injuries Involving Children

Children are often at greater risk in trampoline park accidents because they may not understand the force created by multiple people jumping around them.

Small children and younger kids can be injured when older children, teens, or adults bounce nearby.

Children younger in age may also be less able to avoid collisions, stop risky stunts, or recognize unsafe equipment.

A trampoline park injury lawyer can investigate whether the park failed to protect children by allowing overcrowding, failing to separate jumpers by age or size, or failing to enforce rules for only one child or one jumper in a designated area.

These failures can lead to preventable injuries.

Child injury cases may involve:

• A little girl or young boy injured during a birthday party
• A child hurt by a larger jumper
• A small child injured during open jump time with older children
• A child thrown by double bounce force
• A child hurt after attempting flips in an unsafe area
• A child injured in foam pits or on a hard landing surface
• A child hurt because employees failed to enforce safety rules

In these cases, the legal issue is not whether jumping on a trampoline carries some risk.

The issue is whether the park increased that risk by failing to use reasonable safety measures.

Situations Involving Waivers or Disputed Liability

Trampoline parks often require parents to sign liability waivers before kids can jump.

Some parks use online waiver language before a birthday party or require a release at check-in.

A waiver may mention assumed risk, trampoline related injuries, jumping hazards, collisions, equipment risk, or agreement to arbitrate.

A signed waiver does not automatically end a case.

Waiver rules vary by state, and courts may treat claims involving minors differently from adult personal injury cases.

In 2025, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court addressed cases involving minors injured at Sky Zone trampoline parks and held that the participation agreements and arbitration provisions signed by one parent were not enforceable against the injured minors or non-signing parents under those circumstances.

A lawyer can review:

• Who signed the waiver
• Whether the injured person was a child
• Whether both parents signed
• Whether the waiver language clearly covered the accident
• Whether the park followed its own safety rules
• Whether the claim involves gross negligence or reckless indifference
• Whether state safety laws limit or affect waiver enforcement
• Whether other defendants, such as equipment manufacturers, are outside the waiver

A trampoline park injury lawyer investigates both the accident and the business practices behind it.

The goal is to determine whether the injury happened because of unsafe conditions, poor supervision, defective equipment, inadequate maintenance, or a failure to enforce safety rules.

An investigation may include:

• Requesting surveillance video before it is deleted
• Reviewing the incident report
• Interviewing witnesses
• Photographing the trampoline, foam pits, trampoline mat, trampoline frame, padding, and surrounding areas
• Determining whether protective pads were missing, thin, loose, or worn
• Reviewing employee training records
• Requesting the employee manual
• Examining inspection and maintenance logs
• Investigating prior injuries at the same park
• Reviewing state safety laws and applicable standards
• Evaluating whether federal regulations apply to any specific attraction or equipment
• Consulting experts on trampoline safety, biomechanics, engineering, or medical causation

In some cases, an employee manual obtained during litigation may become important evidence.

If the manual required staff to stop flips, separate younger kids from older children, monitor foam pits, or enforce only-one-jumper rules, a violation of those rules may support liability.

Proving Liability in a Trampoline Park Injury Case

To prove liability, the injured person generally must show that someone owed a duty of care, breached that duty, and caused an injury.

In a trampoline park case, the responsible party may be the park operator, property owner, franchisor, equipment manufacturer, installer, or maintenance company.

Evidence may show liability when:

• Employees failed to enforce safety rules
• Multiple people were allowed to jump in a dangerous way
• Small children were allowed to jump near adults or older children
• The park failed to separate jumpers by size, age, or skill
• The trampoline mat was torn or worn
• The trampoline frame was exposed
• Protective pads were missing or inadequate
• Foam pits were poorly maintained
• Employees ignored risky stunts
• The park failed to inspect equipment
• The park violated its own safety rules
• Prior injuries happened under similar conditions

Personal injury cases involving trampoline park injuries often depend on video footage, employee testimony, company policies, inspection records, and expert review.

A lawyer can connect the unsafe condition to the child’s injury and show why the accident was preventable.

Challenges in Trampoline Park Injury Claims

Trampoline park injury claims can be challenging because parks often argue that injuries happen even when the park did nothing wrong.

They may claim the injured person assumed the risk, violated safety rules, attempted flips, landed incorrectly, or was hurt by another jumper rather than by the park.

Common defense arguments include:

• The child or parent signed a waiver
• The injury was an inherent risk of jumping
• The child ignored posted rules
• Another child caused the injury
• The parent failed to supervise the child
• The park had adequate safety measures
• The equipment was not defective
• The injury was not as serious as claimed
• The claimant waited too long to seek treatment

A lawyer responds by gathering facts.

If evidence shows unsafe conditions, poor supervision, defective equipment, missing protective pads, a dangerous foam pit, or a failure to follow safety practices, the park’s defenses may not end the case.

Defending Against Claims of Assumed Risk

Trampoline parks often argue that a person assumes the risk by choosing to jump.

That argument may apply to ordinary risks, but it does not necessarily protect a park from liability for preventable injuries caused by negligence.

A child may understand that jumping can lead to a fall.

That does not mean the child or parent accepted the risk of torn equipment, exposed hardware, unsafe foam pits, poor supervision, overcrowding, or reckless indifference to known hazards.

A lawyer may defend against assumed-risk arguments by showing:

• The risk was hidden or not obvious
• The park increased the risk through poor operations
• The child was too young to understand the danger
• Employees failed to enforce safety rules
• The park violated its own safety rules
• The injury involved defective or poorly maintained equipment
• The waiver language did not clearly cover the accident
• The park acted with cavalier disregard for safety

The AAP has cautioned that trampoline safety measures have not appeared to substantially reduce risk in some settings and discourages home trampoline use.

That medical guidance can help explain why commercial facilities must take safety seriously, especially when children are involved.

A trampoline park injury lawyer can pursue compensation for the losses caused by the accident.

The value of a claim depends on the injury, treatment, long-term effects, liability evidence, state law, and insurance coverage.

Compensation may include:

• Emergency room bills
• Ambulance costs
• Diagnostic imaging
• Surgery and hospital care
• Orthopedic treatment
• Physical therapy
• Follow-up medical care
• Medication and medical devices
• Future medical treatment
• Pain and suffering
• Emotional distress
• Scarring or disfigurement
• Loss of mobility or function
• Parent wage loss related to caring for an injured child
• Reduced quality of life
• Permanent disability

Punitive damages may be available in limited cases involving gross negligence, reckless indifference, or a conscious disregard for safety.

These damages are not available in every case and depend on state law and the specific facts.

Confidentiality agreements may also affect what the public can learn about prior settlements.

If a trampoline park settled previous injury claims under confidentiality agreements, public reports may not show the full history of accidents at that location.

TorHoerman Law is investigating trampoline injuries suffered at commercial establishments, including trampoline parks, indoor adventure parks, foam pit attractions, and facilities operating under national brands such as Sky Zone, Urban Air, Altitude, and other park operators.

These cases may involve children, adults, birthday party guests, or families who were told the activity was safe and fun but left with serious injuries.

Our team investigates whether the park failed to protect jumpers from unsafe conditions, overcrowding, poorly maintained equipment, risky stunts, dangerous foam pits, or collisions involving multiple people.

We also review whether the park’s own safety rules, employee manual, inspection logs, or training materials show that staff should have prevented the accident.

Contact TorHoerman Law for a free consultation if you or your child was injured at a trampoline park.

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A lawyer can review what happened, explain whether you may have a claim, and help protect your family’s right to pursue compensation.