Dangerous Property and Products

A 7-year-old child sustained a serious toe laceration, resulting nerve injury after being permitted to utilize an adult elliptical machine that was placed in a children’s activity center within a municipal owned health club.

A 54-year-old female suffered a fractured tibia when she slipped on ice while walking up to her apartment stairs.

A 14-year-old minor fell 65 feet from a recreational climbing wall at a Chicago area health club after his instructor failed to ensure that his harness was secured with a proper type of knot. The young man sustained fractures of both heels and his arm, as well as a shoulder dislocation.

A 73-year-old musician was practicing with his ensemble on the stage of a public university when a large screen above him fell striking him causing him permanent injuries.

A 22-year-old male suffered severe burns to his chest when he fell onto a grate covering the heat source in a sauna.

A 63-year-old male suffered a fractured distal fibula that required surgical repair when his right leg was run over by a fork lift at his job.

A 52-year-old female sustained a torn rotator cuff in her right shoulder, which required surgery, after falling on a damp restroom floor that had just been mopped.

A 40-year-old male suffered several fractures to his face and skull, a kidney laceration, hemopneumothorax, and multiple other fractures to his body when he was working on a construction project on the roof and fell through the elevator shaft to the basement.

A 45-year-old man lost part of his leg after it was crushed due to the unsafe design of a large piece of industrial equipment used in a Chicago manufacturing plant.