City of Woodstock Aquatics Coordinator turns into third individual to file lawsuit after separate accidents at Algonquin journey park

The City of Woodstock Aquatics Coordinator is the third individual to file a lawsuit towards an journey park in Algonquin, with the plaintiffs all alleging they suffered accidents in separate foam pit accidents.

McHenry-based legislation agency Hans Mast Law Group filed a lawsuit final month in McHenry County Circuit Court towards Fun City Adventure Park.

The lawsuit grievance alleges the journey park, positioned at 215 South Randall Road in Algonquin, was negligent and the proximate reason behind a lady being injured.

Plaintiff Leslie Behrns, who’s employed because the Quatics Coordinator for the City of Woodstock, was injured on August 17 within the foam pit, the grievance mentioned.

The complant mentioned the Behrns jumped from the raised platform into the froth pit and struck the underside of the pit, inflicting severe harm.

The go well with mentioned Fun City Adventure Park operated a foam pit that was not protected for “all shapes and sizes of visitors” given its “limited depth and resistance of the foam squares” within the pit.

The grievance moreover mentioned that the journey park knew or ought to have identified that adults leaping into the froth pit from the raised platform have been uncovered to a “latent and unknown danger” because of the unsafe structure and design of the pit.

The lawsuit seeks an unspecified quantity of damages in extra of $50,000 and is about for an preliminary courtroom listening to on March 6. It is the third go well with to be filed towards Fun City Adventure Park.

Naperville-based legislation agency John J. Malm and Associates filed a lawsuit in October additionally alleging the journey park was negligent and the proximate trigger of a kid being injured.

Plaintiff Scott Stone, of Algonquin, mentioned his juvenile son was injured at Fun City Adventure Park on May 27.

The lawsuit grievance mentioned the kid was leaping right into a foam pit on the trampoline park from a platform when he suffered accidents to his head, neck and again.

The grievance claims there was an insufficient quantity of froth blocks within the pit, together with within the heart of the pit, to guard company from being injured.

The go well with, which seeks an unspecified quantity in damages in extra of $50,000, says the enterprise “carelessly and negligently” failed to offer a protected and correct foam pit and did not warn others of the harmful situation.

The first lawsuit filed towards the enterprise was in August and moreover named River Pointe of Algonquin as a defendant, courtroom data present.

That go well with was filed in McHenry County Circuit Court additionally by Hans Mast Law Group.

Plaintiff David Zick, of Algonquin, accused Fun City Adventure Park of being negligent when he was injured on the trampoline park on April 11.

Zick paid a charge and was permitted by employees to make use of the ability with out signing or reviewing any paperwork notifying him of the “latent dangers” that existed on the premises, based on the lawsuit grievance.

The grievance mentioned Zick jumped from a raised platform into the froth pit and his foot struck the underside of the pit, inflicting him severe harm.

The lawsuit mentioned the enterprise “knew or should have known” that adults leaping into the froth pit from the raised platform have been unaware of the restricted depth of the pit and the restricted skill of the froth cubes to securely cushion their fall.

Zick suffered bodily harm, “both internally and externally,” and has suffered and can sooner or later undergo ache, the grievance mentioned, including that Zick has been “permanently scarred and disabled” whereas changing into obligated for “large sums of money for medical care.”

The Village of Algonquin beforehand quickly deemed the enterprise “not approved for occupancy” in March 2024 following an Illinois Department of Labor inspection.

The shutdown got here after inspectors found Fun City Adventure Park by no means utilized for allowing or licensing with the state as required for journey parks.

An inspection carried out in 2024 by the village, fireplace division and state officers confirmed the ropes course, trampolines and foam pits didn’t meet requirements adopted by the state.

State inspectors famous that the ropes course was utilizing the wrong-rated bolts, wrong-sized bolts and security harnesses with many parts solely hand-tightened.

They mentioned the elevated ropes course was most certainly a counterfeit Chinese knock-off of an accepted system.

Fun City Adventure Park mentioned it reopened in late August 2024 after getting the “go” to open once more. The enterprise has not publicly responded to the lawsuits.