“His feet hit the mat, and almost instantly his knees buckled down, and he just let out the worst scream that you could ever have heard from a child.” For any parent who has heard that sound, the world stops. That was Kati Hill, the mother of three-year-old Colton, describing to ABC News the moment her son’s femur snapped at a trampoline park during a “Toddler Time” session. It’s a nightmare we’ve seen repeated across North America, but for families in the Town of Roman Forest, it’s a risk that sits just a short drive down the I-69 corridor.
One bounce. One bad landing. One broken neck. That is the reality behind the bright neon lights and loud music of the modern family entertainment center. If your child was hurt at a trampoline park serving the Town of Roman Forest area, or if a defective backyard trampoline failed in your own neighborhood, you aren’t looking for a “general practitioner.” You need an attorney who has spent 25 years making multi-billion-dollar corporations like BP pay, and who knows that your child’s injury wasn’t an accident—it was a business decision made by a private equity-backed conglomerate.
At Attorney911, led by Ralph Manginello, we don’t just handle these cases; we dismantle the defense’s playbook. With our associate attorney Lupe Peña, who used to defend these very same recreational facilities, we know exactly which holes exist in that electronic waiver you signed at the kiosk. We represent families in the Town of Roman Forest and throughout Montgomery County who are dealing with the aftermath of catastrophic pediatric injuries. We know the standard of care, the physics of the double-bounce, and the evidence that usually disappears within seven days.
What Town of Roman Forest Families Need to Know First
The trampoline-park industry has exploded in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metro area. For residents of the Town of Roman Forest, the convenience of nearby parks in Humble, New Caney, and The Woodlands makes these venues a go-to for birthday parties and summer afternoons. But these parks are not the supervised athletic facilities they claim to be. They are high-throughput retail environments where safety often takes a backseat to margin.
Whether your child was at the Urban Air in Humble or a Sky Zone in the surrounding metro, the risk profile is the same. An estimated 1.6% of all pediatric emergency department trauma visits in the United States are now trampoline-related. When these injuries happen, the park’s risk management team starts working before the ambulance even leaves the parking lot. They want you to believe the waiver makes them immune. In Texas, a Harris County jury recently proved them wrong with an $11.485 million verdict against Cosmic Jump—despite a signed waiver—finding the operator grossly negligent for a torn trampoline slide that dumped a teen onto concrete.
We are here to tell families in the Town of Roman Forest that the waiver is not a wall. It is a hurdle we are built to clear.
The Standard of Care: Why Your Injury Wasn’t an Accident
A trampoline injury at an indoor park is many things, but it is rarely a “freak occurance.” The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has formally advised against recreational trampoline use since 1999. They reaffirmed this position in 2012 and again in 2019. This means for over a quarter of a century, the medical community has sent a clear warning: these products maim children.
The industry responded by writing its own rules—ASTM F2970. This is a voluntary standard that trampoline park operators like Urban Air, Altitude, and Sky Zone claim to follow. It covers everything from how deep a foam pit must be to the ratio of court monitors to jumpers. The problem for Town of Roman Forest parents is that these standards are often selectively enforced. When a park operates with an attendant-to-jumper ratio far below the ASTM recommendation, it isn’t an accident. It’s a choice to save on labor costs while gambling with your child’s spine.
In Europe, the EN ISO 23659:2022 standard provides mandatory, binding requirements for trampoline park safety. In the United States, and specifically here in Texas, parents are left with a voluntary floor that the industry frequently ignores. Most personal injury firms handle these as simple slip-and-falls. We don’t. We cite the exact ASTM section violations and pair them with international standards to prove that the corporate parent in Grapevine or Dallas knew better.
The Physics of a Catastrophe: The Double-Bounce
Families in the Town of Roman Forest often visit parks during peak hours—Saturday afternoons and holidays—when the courts are most crowded. This is when the “double-bounce” mechanism becomes most lethal.
When a 200-pound adult lands on a trampoline bed at the same time a 60-pound child is pushing off, the kinetic energy transfer multiplies the child’s launch force by up to 4x. The child isn’t jumping anymore; they are being launched like a projectile. This energy math is why ASTM F2970 requires age and weight separation. When a Town of Roman Forest toddler is allowed on a court with teenagers or adults, the park has violated its own safety floor.
The resulting injuries are often “trampoline fractures”—buckle fractures of the proximal tibial metaphysis—that can permanently alter a child’s growth. We work with biomechanical engineers to reconstruct these impacts, showing juries that the park’s failure to supervise was the direct cause of the mechanical failure of the child’s bone.
Navigating the Montgomery County Legal System
If you are a Town of Roman Forest resident, your case will likely be handled in the Montgomery County court system or potentially in Harris County if the corporate parent’s ties allow. Texas law is nuanced when it comes to these cases.
First, let’s talk about the waiver. Under the Texas “fair notice” and “express negligence” doctrines established in Dresser Industries v. Page Petroleum, a waiver must be conspicuous and explicitly use the word “negligence.” Many of the iPad waivers used at local parks fail this test. Furthermore, the 1993 Texas ruling in Munoz v. II Jaz Inc. established that a parent cannot bind a minor child to a pre-injury waiver of their personal tort claims. Your child’s right to recover survives your signature.
Texas also follows a modified comparative negligence rule (the 51% bar). If the park can convince a jury that your child was more than 50% at fault, you recover nothing. This is why you need a lawyer who can pre-emptively shut down the “wild jumping” defense by showing the park’s systemic failure to enforce the rules. We also look at the 2025 jurisdictional split—recent rulings like Cerna v. Pearland Urban Air have affected how delegation clauses in arbitration are handled in Texas. We stay ahead of these appellate shifts to ensure Town of Roman Forest families aren’t trapped in a forum that favors the corporation.
Complex Injuries: Beyond the Emergency Room
A “broken leg” is a generic term that doesn’t capture the medical reality of what our clients face. We look for the medical specificity that insurance adjusters fear.
Salter-Harris Growth Plate Fractures
In pediatric cases, a fracture that crosses the growth plate (the physis) is a time bomb. A Salter-Harris Type II fracture at age 7 might not show its full damage until age 13, when one leg stops growing while the other continues. For families in the Town of Roman Forest, this means a decade of orthopedic monitoring at facilities like Texas Children’s The Woodlands. We build damages into your case that account for this entire 10-year trajectory, not just the initial surgery.
SCIWORA and Cervical Trauma
Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality (SCIWORA) is a nightmare for parents. A child lands head-first in a foam pit at a park near the Town of Roman Forest, the CT scan at the local ER comes back “normal,” and yet the child is experiencing progressive numbness. Because a child’s spine is more ligamentous and flexible than an adult’s, the cord can be stretched or compressed even if the bones themselves don’t break. We know how to document these neurovascular injuries, including vertebral artery dissections that can lead to spinal-cord strokes—a mechanism recently brought to national attention by viral cases like Elle Yona’s.
Rhabdomyolysis: The Dehydration Cascade
This is an under-recognized emergency. When a child jumps for 90 minutes straight in a hot indoor park with poor ventilation, their muscles can literally begin to break down. This is rhabdomyolysis. If your child has cola-colored urine or severe muscle pain 24 hours after a visit to a park serving the Town of Roman Forest, they need an ER immediately. Our firm is currently litigating a $10 million lawsuit against a major university involving these exact same medical issues. We have the expert pool ready to link the park’s environment to your child’s kidney failure.
Evidence Preservation: The 7-to-30 Day Window
If we could give one piece of advice to ogni parent in the Town of Roman Forest, it’s this: the evidence is evaporating.
The surveillance video of the Saturday afternoon your child was hurt is likely on a DVR that overwrites every 7, 14, or 30 days. The incident report you filled out can be “revised” on the park’s internal server. At Attorney911, our spoliation letter goes out within 24 hours of you hiring us. We demand the preservation of the DVR hard drive, the kiosk’s version-history for waivers, and the time-clock records for the attendants.
In a recent Georgia case, Mathew Knight v. Trampoline Park, a $3.5 million verdict was secured because the defense surveillance video conveniently “glitched” on four cameras at the exact moment of the injury. We know how to turn a park’s lack of cooperation into a massive evidentiary advantage through adverse inference motions.
The Corporate Stack: Who Are We Actually Suing?
When we bring a case for a Town of Roman Forest family, we aren’t just suing “the park.” We are performing corporate archaeology.
- The Operator LLC: The local entity with a likely $1M primary insurance policy.
- The Franchisee: The multi-unit owner who may operate several parks.
- The Franchisor: Entities like Sky Zone Franchising LLC or UATP Management LLC.
- The Corporate Parent: Sky Zone, Inc. (renamed from CircusTrix) or Unleashed Brands.
- The Private Equity Sponsor: Firms like Palladium Equity Partners or Seidler Equity Partners.
The money is ALWAYS upstream. National chains often try to use the “we just license the brand” defense. We use the precedent from cases like Damion Collins v. Urban Air, where a Kansas arbitrator recently awarded $15.6 million and held the franchisor responsible for 40% of the fault because of a “systemic failure” to implement safety changes. We pierce these shields by showing that the corporate office in Tarrant County or Dallas dictated the very training and staffing protocols that failed in the park where you were hurt.
Backyard Trampolines and Homeowner Liability
Not every injury happens at a park. The Town of Roman Forest is full of beautiful backyards, many of which contain trampolines from manufacturers like Jumpking, Skywalker, or Springfree.
If your child was hurt on a neighbor’s trampoline, you may be dealing with a “trespasser-child” or “attractive nuisance” claim. Texas law holds homeowners accountable for keeping hazardous conditions—like an unfenced or unsecured trampoline—away from children who are too young to appreciate the risk.
We also look at product liability. Many mass-market trampolines sold at retailers like Walmart or Amazon have documented histories of frame weld failures (Jumpking 2005 recall) or netting failures (Sportspower BouncePro recall). If the product itself failed during normal use, the Town of Roman Forest family has a claim against the manufacturer and the retailer. Under recent doctrine, even marketplace giants like Amazon can be held liable as a seller for defective private-label items.
Why Choose Attorney911 for Your Roman Forest Case?
Most firms see a trampoline case and think “quick settlement.” We see a system that needs to be broken.
Ralph Manginello spent his early career litigating the BP Texas City refinery explosion. He has faced the world’s most powerful corporate legal teams and won. That same “trial-first” mentality applies to every Sky Zone or Urban Air case we take. We advance every expense—retaining the biomechanists, pediatric surgeons, and ASTM compliance experts—so your family has zero upfront cost.
Lupe Peña brings the insider’s perspective. Having previously worked for the insurance companies, he knows exactly how they calculate “pain and suffering” and what triggers their highest settlement authority. He speaks Spanish natively, ensuring that our Hablamos Español families get representation that doesn’t lose anything in translation.
We are not just your lawyers; as client Chad Harris said, “You are FAMILY to them.” We represent the parent who stayed up all night in the trauma bay. We represent the child whose summer was stolen by a growth-plate fracture.
Frequently Asked Questions for Town of Roman Forest Parents
Can I sue if I signed the trampoline park waiver?
Yes. In Texas, waivers often fail the Dresser conspicuousness test. Furthermore, gross negligence (like knowing a piece of equipment is broken and not fixing it) cannot be waived. Most importantly, a parent cannot waive a child’s personal right to sue in Texas.
How much is my child’s trampoline injury case worth?
Every case is different, but settlements and verdicts for catastrophic neurological injuries frequently reach into the multi-millions. A Salter-Harris growth plate fracture case typically anchors in the $500,000 to $2,000,000 range when lifetime medical monitoring and corrective surgeries are properly accounted for in a life-care plan.
How long do I have to file a claim in Town of Roman Forest?
Texas has a two-year statute of limitations for personal injury. For a minor, this clock is “tolled” (paused) until they turn 18, meaning they technically have until their 20th birthday. However, you should never wait. The evidence at the park—especially the video—will be gone in weeks.
What if the park says it was my child’s fault?
The park will always try to blame the child. “He was jumping too fast” or “She didn’t follow the rules.” However, in most states, children under age 7 are legally incapable of negligence. For older kids, we show that the park’s failure to supervise and separate age groups is what created the dangerous environment in the first place.
The insurance company offered to pay my medical bills. Should I take it?
No. This is a common tactic called “Med-Pay.” They offer a small check (often $5,000 or less) to cover immediate bills, but the fine print usually releases them from the millions of dollars in future care, pain, and suffering your child may actually be owed. Never sign anything before calling 1-888-ATTY-911.
Taking Action Today: The Evidence Clock Is Ticking
What happens in the next seven days will determine whether your child has a recovery fund for the next seventy years.
If you are a resident of the Town of Roman Forest and your world was turned upside down by a trampoline accident, let us take the burden of the fight. We bring 25+ years of federal court experience and a relentless discovery protocol to every case. We advance all costs, and we only get paid if we win.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911 (1-888-288-9911) right now. Our intake team is available 24/7. Hablamos Español. Your spoliation letter can be on the park’s desk by tomorrow morning. Don’t let a corporation’s bottom line dictate your child’s future. The case starts today.
Technical Appendix: Trampoline Safety Standards and Authorities
Our firm relies on the most rigorous data and standards available. When we litigate against national chains, we bring the following authoritative sources into the courtroom:
- ASTM F2970-22: The Standard Practice for Design, Manufacture, Installation, Operation, Maintenance, Inspection, and Major Modification of Trampoline Courts.
- ASTM F381-16: Standard Safety Specification for Components, Assembly, Use, and Labeling of Consumer Trampolines.
- American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement (2012/2019): “Trampoline Safety in Childhood and Adolescence.”
- EN ISO 23659:2022: The mandatory international safety requirement for trampoline parks.
- Teague et al. (2024): “Trampoline Park Injury Trends,” published in Pediatrics.
- AJR (2024): “Pediatric Trampoline Injuries Head to Toe,” radiographic evaluation of trampoline trauma patterns.
Directory of Trampoline Parks Serving Town of Roman Forest
While there are dozens of parks in the greater Houston metro, families in the Town of Roman Forest frequently visit these locations:
- Urban Air Adventure Park (Humble): 19304 Hwy 59 North.
- Urban Air Adventure Park (The Woodlands): 17943 N Freeway Frontage Rd.
- Sky Zone Trampoline Park (Spring/Woodlands): 28508 I-45 North.
- Altitude Trampoline Park (Spring/Klein): 4740 Spring Cypress Rd.
- Cosmic Air Adventure Park (Humble): 256 FM 1960 Bypass Rd E.
Each of these parks operates under separate LLCs but is bound by the overarching safety duties discussed throughout this guide. If an injury occurred at any of these or another local facility, the investigation protocol remains the same.
The Life-Care Plan: Protecting Your Child’s Future
When a Town of Roman Forest child suffers a catastrophic injury, we don’t just look at the hospital bill. We build a Pediatric Life-Care Plan with a Certified Life Care Planner (CLCP). This FORECASTS every cost for the rest of your child’s life:
- Future Medical Care: Specialist orthopedic visits through skeletal maturity.
- Episodic Surgery: Corrective osteotomies to fix growth-plate damage.
- Therapies: PT, OT, and speech-language pathology for TBI victims.
- Durable Medical Equipment: Wheelchair replacements every 5 years or prosthetics for life.
- Lost Earning Capacity: The reality that a child with a permanent injury may earn significantly less as an adult.
We then work with forensic economists to reduce these numbers to present value. This total is the anchor for our insurance demand. We don’t settle for the $1M policy limit if your child’s needs are $10M—we go upstream to the franchisor and the PE parent.
The “NOT Call 911” Protocol: A Systemic Failure
We take public reports very seriously. At an Urban Air in Southlake, TX, a parent publicly reviewed the park saying management told staff specifically NOT to call 911 for injuries. This parallels reports at parks in Miami and Tulsa. When a park delays emergency care to protect its “image” or to avoid a state report, it isn’t just negligent—it’s gross negligence. If your child was told to “walk off” a serious injury in the Town of Roman Forest area, we need to hear about it. That policy is the single most powerful evidence we can use to secure punitive damages for your family.
Final Word from Managing Partner Ralph Manginello
“I’ve litigated against the largest oil companies in the world. I’ve seen how they hide evidence and how they try to bully families into small settlements. The trampoline park industry in 2026 is no different. They count on you being too tired, too overwhelmed, or too scared of the waiver to fight back. We don’t get bullied. We don’t take easy settlements that leave your child bare. We build the case to go to a jury, and that is why we win. If your child was hurt in the Town of Roman Forest area, call me directly. My number is 1-888-ATTY-911.”
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