The moment of impact happens in less than a second. For a family in the Town of Holland, a Saturday trip to a nearby trampoline park—perhaps the Urban Air in Killeen or the massive Xtreme Jump flagship in Temple—starts with laughter and ends with a sound no parent ever forgets. It is what Kati Hill described to ABC News as “the worst scream that you could ever have heard from a child.” In that moment, the physics of a trampoline bed, the business decisions of a multimillion-dollar corporation, and the future of your child’s health all collide.
We represent families in the Town of Holland and across Bell County who have seen their lives change in a single bounce. While trampoline parks market themselves as “safe family fun,” our firm knows the industry’s secret: they are high-risk environments elective of business decisions that prioritize throughput over child safety. We are the Manginello Law Firm, known as Attorney911, and we have spent over 25 years making corporate defendants accountable for catastrophic injuries.
If your child is currently at McLane Children’s Medical Center in Temple or another regional trauma center, you are likely feeling a crushing mix of terror and guilt. You signed the waiver. You let them jump. You might think you have no path forward. We are here to tell you that the waiver you signed in a crowded lobby is not the wall the park wants you to believe it is. In Texas, and specifically under the watchful eyes of the courts serving the Town of Holland, the law protects children even when their parents have signed a piece of paper.
The Physics of a Town of Holland Trampoline Injury
The injuries we see in Bell County aren’t “freak accidents.” They are the predictable output of energy transfer. When an adult or a larger teenager lands on a trampoline bed at the same instant a smaller child is pushing off, the energy does not merely double; it multiplies. This “double-bounce” can launch a child with up to 4x their original force. The child isn’t jumping anymore—they have become a projectile.
In Town of Holland backyards, from the quiet streets near Holland ISD to the rural reaches along FM 1123, the risks are just as real. Whether it is a mass-market Jumpking or a premium Springfree, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been clear since 1999: trampolines do not belong in a residential setting. Most manufacturers like Skywalker or JumpSport know this, yet they sell a million units a year, counting on the fact that most parents in the Town of Holland haven’t read the 1999, 2012, and 2019 AAP policy statements.
Why Your Case Is Stronger Than You Think
Many personal injury firms in Central Texas might shy away from a trampoline case because of the waiver. We don’t. Our team includes associate attorney Lupe Peña, who previously worked on the defense side. He used to represent the very insurance carriers and recreational businesses that operate these parks. He knows exactly how those waivers are drafted, and more importantly, he knows exactly where they are full of holes.
In the Town of Holland, we apply the 1993 landmark Texas ruling Munoz v. II Jaz, Inc., which established that a parent cannot pre-emptively waive a minor child’s right to sue for personal injuries. Furthermore, we look at the Harris County verdict in Max Menchaca v. Cosmic Jump, where a jury awarded $11.485 million—including $6 million in punitive damages—because the park was aware of a defect and did nothing. The waiver was signed. The jury found gross negligence anyway. That is the standard of accountability we bring to every case in the Town of Holland.
If you are dealing with a shattered limb, a growth plate injury, or a traumatic brain injury sustained at a park serving the Town of Holland, the clock is already running. The surveillance footage in these facilities is often overwritten in as little as 7 to 30 days. We send spoliation letters within 24 hours of being retained. We don’t wait for the park to “do the right thing.” We demand the evidence.
Call us 24/7 at 1-888-ATTY-911. Hablamos Español. Our firm works on a contingency basis, meaning you pay nothing unless we win. Your child’s recovery fund stays intact while we advance the costs of the biomechanical engineers, pediatric specialists, and safety experts your case requires.
Section 1: The Commercial Reality of Trampoline Parks in Bell County
When families from the Town of Holland drive up I-35 or over to Highway 190 to visit an adventure park, they are entering a highly engineered business environment. Parks like Urban Air, Sky Zone, and Altitude are no longer simple rooms full of trampolines. They are “Family Entertainment Centers” (FECs) that bolt on go-karts, ropes courses, climbing walls, and ninja obstacles.
The parent company of Sky Zone, Inc. (renamed from CircusTrix in 2023) and the owners of Urban Air (Unleashed Brands) are backed by massive private equity firms like Palladium Equity Partners and Seidler Equity Partners. These entities approach safety from a margin-perspective. If a park serving the Town of Holland can save thousands of dollars a month by reducing the number of “court monitors” from one per court to one per four courts, they often make that choice.
The Industry Standard the Park Violated
The trampoline park industry essentially wrote its own rules—a voluntary standard known as ASTM F2970. This standard dictates everything from the depth of a foam pit to the ratio of attendants to jumpers. In the Town of Holland, when we investigate an injury at a place like Xtreme Jump in Temple—which boasts 60,000 square feet as its flagship—we look at whether they actually met the ASTM floor.
- Attendant-to-Jumper Ratios: Were there enough eyes on the court? During a busy Saturday in Bell County, ratios often collapse.
- Foam Pit Maintenance: ASTM F2970 requires foam pits to be maintained at specific depths. If the foam blocks have compacted or haven’t been rotated, a child landing head-first strikes the hard surface beneath.
- Age and Weight Separation: The 14x risk ratio (smaller jumpers are 14 times more likely to be hurt when mixed with larger ones) is why “Toddler Time” exists. If a park in our region allowed a teenager to jump in a zone with a Town of Holland toddler, they violated the standard of care.
Our managed-partner Ralph Manginello has over 25 years of experience taking on Fortune 500 companies, including the legal teams behind BP and Walmart. The corporate lawyers for national trampoline chains don’t intimidate us. We know their “franchise shield” defense—where the corporate office blames the local owner—and we know how to pierce it. We currently litigate a $10 million case against a major university for rhabdomyolysis and organ failure; we understand the medical and institutional accountability required to win these fights.
The Problem with “Unregulated” Parks in Texas
Texas is one of the states without a specific, mandatory trampoline park safety act. While states like New York and Arizona (under “Ty’s Law”) have strict reporting and inspection requirements, parks in the Town of Holland operate in a regulatory vacuum. The Texas Department of Insurance regulates the “Class B” inflatable rides often found inside these parks—like the Sky Rider zip-coaster—but they do not regulate the trampolines themselves.
This refers the duty of care entirely to the operator and their insurer. When there is no government inspector, our firm acts as the inspector. We subpoena the daily inspection logs, the attendant shift schedules, and the franchisor’s own audit reports. We often find that the “inspection” was a teenager checking a box on a clipboard while looking at their phone.
Section 2: Backyard Trampolines and the Town of Holland Homeowner
While commercial parks have the highest “catastrophe rate” per hour, the Town of Holland’s residential neighborhoods see a much higher volume of total injuries. For every child hurt at an Urban Air, there are scores hurt on backyard equipment from brands like ACON, Jumpking, or Skywalker.
If your child was injured on a neighbor’s trampoline in the Town of Holland, or if a guest was hurt on yours, the legal landscape shifts from commercial negligence to “premises liability” and “attractive nuisance.”
The Attractive Nuisance Doctrine in Bell County
Texas law recognizes that children are naturally curious. If a homeowner in the Town of Holland has a trampoline that is visible from the street, has the ladder left in place, or is sitting in an unfenced yard, it is considered an “attractive nuisance.” The homeowner can be held liable for injuries to a trespassing child because the law assumes the child is too young to appreciate the danger, while the adult should have known kids would be drawn to the equipment.
The Homeowners Insurance Barrier
Here is a reality many Town of Holland residents don’t realize: the majority of homeowners insurance policies explicitly exclude trampoline injuries or require a very specific, expensive “trampoline endorsement.”
- The Primary Exclusion: If you didn’t tell your carrier you have a trampoline, or if you didn’t install the mandatory safety net required by the policy, they may deny your claim.
- The Umbrella Policy: In catastrophic cases, we look for an umbrella or excess policy that might override the primary exclusion.
- Product Liability: If the trampoline was maintained perfectly but the mat tore or a weld on the frame snapped—as seen in the million-unit Jumpking recall or the 2019 Super Jumper recall—we go after the manufacturer directly.
We have a proven track record against retailers like Walmart and Amazon (under the Bolger v. Amazon doctrine), making them responsible when they sell defective private-label trampolines like Bouncepro. Your neighbor in the Town of Holland might be our client’s friend—we often handle these cases by going directly to the insurance tower or the manufacturer, preserving the relationship between families while securing the millions of dollars a catastrophic injury requires for long-term care.
Section 3: Pediatric Catastrophic Injuries — The Medical Reality
A “broken leg” at a trampoline park is almost never just a broken leg. In the developing bodies of Town of Holland children, bone fractures carry lifelong consequences.
Salter-Harris Fractures (Growth Plate Damage)
In the Town of Holland, our firm frequently sees “Salter-Harris” fractures. Because a child’s bones are still growing, the “physis” (growth plate) is made of cartilage, which is much weaker than the actual bone. A double-bounce landing on a court in Temple or Killeen can shatter that growth plate.
The danger is that the damage might not be visible for years. If a Town of Holland eight-year-old’s growth plate is destroyed, that leg may simply stop growing, while the other leg continues. By age 14, the child can have a measurably shorter limb, requiring multiple painful surgeries known as “corrective osteotomies.” We don’t settle cases based on the current ER bill. We build life-care plans that project these costs out over sixty years.
SCIWORA and Cervical Injuries
Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality (SCIWORA) is a pediatric-specific horror. A child can land on their head in a foam pit at a Bell County park, have a “normal” X-ray in the trauma bay, and yet be suffering from cord ischemia. If the park attendants—who are often undertrained teenagers—allow that child to “walk it off,” they can convert a treatable injury into permanent paralysis.
We also watch for the “Elle Yona” mechanism: Vertebral Artery Dissection. This is a spinal-cord stroke caused by torque on the neck during a backflip. If your teen returned from a Bell County trampoline park complaining of a headache or neck pain and was told it was a “panic attack,” get an MRI immediately. It could be a stroke.
Rhabdomyolysis: The “Hidden” Emergency
Perhaps most uniquely, our firm handles rhabdomyolysis cases. This is where muscle tissue breaks down and floods the bloodstream with myoglobin, leading to acute kidney failure. It happens during the 100-degree Texas summers when Town of Holland kids jump for 90 minutes straight in a poorly ventilated indoor facility without proper hydration. If your child’s urine is the color of cola after a park visit, go to the Emergency Room in Temple immediately. The $10 million lawsuit we are currently fighting against the University of Houston uses the exact same medical experts and institutional-neglect theories required to win a trampoline rhabdo case.
Section 4: Why “I Signed the Waiver” Is a Myth in Texas
If there is one thing we want parents in the Town of Holland to understand, it is this: Waivers are not walls. They are insurance defense tactics designed to scare you away from the courthouse.
Our associate attorney Lupe Peña knows this because he has seen the “inside” of these defense strategies. There are five primary ways we defeat a trampoline park waiver in Bell County:
- The Minor-Binding Rule (Munoz): As mentioned, Texas generally does not allow a parent’s signature to strip a minor of their own personal cause of action.
- The Gross Negligence Carve-Out: Under the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling in Moriel, a waiver cannot release a defendant from gross negligence—conduct that involves an extreme degree of risk the park was aware of. Failing to repair a torn trampoline (Cosmic Jump) or failing to staff a court during a birthday party peak is gross negligence.
- The Fair Notice Doctrine (Dresser): In the Town of Holland, a waiver must be “conspicuous.” If the release is part of a 20-page click-wrap on an iPad in small font, it may fail the fair-notice test.
- The Signer-Authority Defeat: We often find that a waiver was signed by a grandmother, an aunt, or the parent of a friend during a Town of Holland birthday party. Texas Family Code § 153.073 is clear—only a legal guardian has authority. A non-guardian signature is a legal nullity.
- The Bilingual-Formation Defeat (Delfingen): Many families in Bell County speak Spanish as their primary language. If the park provided an English-only iPad waiver and pressured you to sign it without an explanation in Spanish, you did not have a “meeting of the minds.” Hablamos Español—we use this advantage to ensure Town of Holland’s Hispanic community isn’t silenced by a language barrier.
Ralph Manginello and our team have spent decades dismantling these corporate shields. When an Urban Air or Sky Zone adjuster tells you “our records show a signed waiver,” our response is: “Let’s talk about why that waiver is unenforceable.”
Section 5: The 24-Hour Spoliation Protocol in Town of Holland
Evidence in a trampoline park case has a shorter shelf life than milk. If you wait until you get the first medical bill to call a lawyer, your case may already be dead in the water.
Why We Move Within 24 Hours
The DVR systems at parks serving the Town of Holland are set to overwrite. The park’s “incident report” is often “updated” by a manager forty-eight hours after the injury to move the blame to your child. The foam blocks in the pit where your child bottomed out will be replaced or rotated by Monday morning.
Our protocol:
- Immediate Spoliation Letter: We send a certified demand to the park operator, their franchisor (Unleashed Brands or Sky Zone Inc.), and their corporate counsel.
- Forensic Digital Preservation: We use tools (like Wayback Machine captures and kiosk audit trail subpoenas) to find the version of the waiver and safety rules that were live on the day of the injury. We know how to prove and catch a “surveillance glitch spoliation” where the park claims the camera “just missed it.”
- Ex-Employee Outreach: Our firm maintains a network of former trampoline park employees. High turnover means the 17-year-old monitor who saw your child get hurt is likely working somewhere else three months later. They are often willing to tell the truth once they are no longer under the park’s thumb.
Section 6: Calculating the Total Recovery for Village of Holland Families
A child’s injury doesn’t just cost an ER copay. It changes the trajectory of their entire life. We have recovered multi-million dollar settlements for victims of traumatic brain injuries and spinal injuries. We bring that same “Fortune 500” litigation intensity to the Town of Holland.
The Life Care Plan
For a catastrophic injury, we retain a Certified Life Care Planner. We calculate:
- Future Medical Costs: Corrective surgeries for growth plates, lifetime neurology monitoring.
- Lost Earning Capacity: If a brain injury or physical disability prevents a child from entering a high-paying field later in life, that loss of future income is part of the case.
- Special Education Costs: Pediatric TBIs often require academic aides and private tutoring for 18+ years—costs most firms never even think to claim.
- Non-Economic Damages: The loss of childhood. The inability to play sports. The PTSD that follows a Town of Holland child for decades after they let out that “worst scream.”
As client Chad Harris said, “You are NOT just some client… You are FAMILY to them.” That means we handle the medical lien negotiations at the end too. We don’t just win the settlement; we fight the hospitals and the ERISA plans to reduce what you owe them, so more money stays in your child’s recovery fund.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Town of Holland Residents
Q: What should I do if my child broke their leg at Xtreme Jump in Temple or Urban Air in Killeen?
First, seek immediate care at McLane Children’s in Temple. Do NOT talk to the insurance adjuster who calls you “just to check in.” That is a Recorded Statement Trap. Call 1-888-ATTY-911 immediately. Every minute the park delays a 911 call or an apology is a minute their surveillance DVR moves closer to overwriting the incident. We send a spoliation letter within 24 hours of retention to lock the video evidence in place.
Q: Can I sue if I signed a waiver at the trampoline park kiosk?
Yes. Texas courts—following Munoz v. II Jaz—have a strong history of protecting minors from being bound by their parents’ signatures. Even for adults, the Dresser fair-notice doctrine and the gross-negligence carve-out under Moriel frequently make these waivers unenforceable under Bell County law. If the park operated at half the required ASTM F2970 attendant ratio, the waiver likely doesn’t apply.
Q: How much is a trampoline park injury settlement worth in Texas?
Every case is unique, but the anchors are clear. The Cosmic Jump Houston verdict reached $11.485 million. The Damion Collins arbitration award against Urban Air reached $15.6 million. Even “smaller” cases involving Salter-Harris growth plate fractures frequently settle in the $500,000 to $2 million range because of the requirement for 10+ years of medical monitoring.
Q: Is the foam pit at a trampoline park actually safe?
Actually, the industry has been quietly replacing foam pits with airbags since 2018 because foam pits are linked to permanent cervical injuries and “submerged entrapment” asphyxiation. A park serving the Town of Holland that still uses a foam pit is often making a cost decision over a safety one. If your child bottomed out or hit a “dense foam pad” instead of a trampoline base, that is a direct breach of the ASTM standard.
Q: Why does my child still have a headache three days after a trampoline fall?
A headache post-trampoline is never “normal.” It could be post-concussive syndrome, or it could be a Vertebral Artery Dissection (spinal stroke) like the Elle Yona case that went viral on TikTok with 27M views. Go to McLane Children’s or a pediatric neurologist in the Town of Holland area immediately.
Q: What if my neighbor’s trampoline in the Town of Holland injured my kid?
Texas follows the “attractive nuisance” doctrine. Even if your child was technically a trespasser, the homeowner may be liable if the trampoline wasn’t secured. We look for every insurance layer—including umbrella policies that might cover the injury even if the primary homeowners policy has a “trampoline exclusion.”
Q: How much does a trampoline injury lawyer in the Town of Holland cost?
At Attorney911, the cost is zero upfront. We work on a contingency fee (standard 33.33% pre-trial). We advance every expense—from the private investigator to the biomechanical engineer. If we don’t win, you don’t owe us a dime.
Q: How long do I have to sue a trampoline park in Texas?
Specifically, under Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code § 16.003, the personal injury statute of limitations is 2 years. For minors, this is “tolled” until they turn 18, meaning they have until their 20th birthday. However, you should NEVER wait. The evidence—attendant time clocks, inspection logs, and surveillance—will be gone within 30 days. Your child’s case is decided by what gets preserved this week.
Q: Who is liable for an Urban Air Sky Rider or go-kart accident?
In these FEC-style parks, we sue the Operator LLC, the franchisee, and the franchisor (Unleashed Brands). We also name the manufacturer—like UA Attractions, LLC or Ropes Courses, Inc.—under product liability theories. The franchisor often takes 40% or more of the fault in arbitration awards like the Damion Collins case.
Q: My child’s urine is dark brown after jumping at a Bell County park. What is that?
That is a medical emergency. It is likely myoglobinuria, a sign of exertional rhabdomyolysis or kidney failure. Go to the ER in Temple now. Then call us. We are currently litigating a $10 million UH rhabdo case and know the medical specialists required to prove this.
Q: Does it matter if I don’t speak English well?
No. Our associate attorney Lupe Peña is a native Spanish speaker. We represent families in the Town of Holland directly with no interpreters. Under the Delfingen doctrine, an English-language waiver you couldn’t understand may be entirely void.
Why Town of Holland Families Choose Attorney911
We aren’t a volume firm. We are a catastrophic-injury powerhouse. When you hire Ralph Manginello, you aren’t getting a junior attorney fresh out of law school. You are getting twenty-five years of trial experience and the firm that went head-to-head with BP.
Most firms handle a trampoline case like a slip-and-fall. We handle it like a corporate-negligence case. We know the industry’s own “FDD Item 3” litigation disclosures. We know which parks in North Texas have been cited by OSHA or the Labor Department for overworking teenage monitors. We know that in the Town of Holland, your child deserves more than an apology—they deserve a future that is fully funded.
The Moore Moat: Our Seven Pillars of Authority
- Lupe Peña’s Insider Edge: A former defense attorney who knows their playbook.
- The 50-State Database: We know every state’s minor-waiver rule.
- ASTM Mastery: We can cite F2970 Section 10 from memory.
- The UH Rhabdo Bridge: We are already winning the most complex medical cases.
- Fortune 500 Battle Records: BP, Walmart, Amazon, FedEx.
- Texas-Grown, National Reach: Offices in Houston, Austin, and Beaumont serving families locally.
- Contingency Discipline: We take the financial risk so you don’t have to.
One bounce. One landing. One scream. The trampoline park’s risk-management team was working before your child even hit the ground. They are already building their defense around that waiver you signed. You need a team that was built specifically for this fight.
What happened to your child at an Urban Air, Sky Zone, or Xtreme Jump near the Town of Holland wasn’t an accident—it was the predictable output of a system. The AAP has been warning since 1999. The industry wrote its own safety floor in F2970 and then operated below it to hit a margin target. The surveillance is engineered to overwrite before you can find a lawyer.
We were built for exactly this. Your child’s case is decided by what gets preserved this week. The DVR overwrites in 7 to 30 days. The waiver kiosk database purges on cycles as short as 72 hours. The attendant transfers. The foam pit refills. Our spoliation letter goes out within 24 hours of your retention.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. Hablamos Español. No fee unless we win. The case starts today.
