One bounce. One bad landing. One broken neck. That is all it takes at a trampoline park. At the facilities serving families from Village of The Hills, a seven-year-old child could come off a court on a stretcher while their parents are still standing at the kiosk where they signed a waiver twenty minutes earlier. The double-bounce happens in two seconds. Your child is airborne, launched by a force they cannot control, and then they land in a trauma bay at a Level 1 pediatric center like Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin.
For 25+ years, Ralph Manginello and our team at Attorney911 have fought for catastrophic injury victims across Village of The Hills and the state of Texas. We have gone toe-to-toe with Fortune 500 corporations like BP, Walmart, and Amazon. The parent conglomerates behind national trampoline park chains, such as Sky Zone, Inc. (backed by Palladium Equity Partners) and Unleashed Brands (the owner of Urban Air), hire massive corporate-defense firms to shield their assets. That does not intimidate us. We have already won those battles.
If your child was injured at a trampoline park near Village of The Hills, what you do in the next 7 days will determine whether your case survives. Most personal injury firms handle these as simple “slip and fall” cases. We don’t. We built our practice to dismantle the specific systemic negligence that defines this industry. We cite ASTM F2970 from memory. We know that the court monitor on duty was likely a sixteen-year-old with four hours of training. We know that the piece of paper you signed at the front desk is not the absolute shield the park leads you to believe it is.
The Reality of Trampoline Injuries in Village of The Hills
Village of The Hills is a community built around active families. Our children are on the soccer fields, the cheer mats, and the courts. When weekend recreation at a jump park leads to a shattered tibia or a traumatic brain injury, the impact ripples through the entire community. Across the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin-San Antonio corridors, investigations have uncovered hundreds of injury reports—a pattern of ambulances responding to facilities where the safety standard was treated as a suggestion rather than a mandate.
In Harris County, a jury recently awarded $11.485 million—including $6 million in punitive damages—against the operator of Cosmic Jump after a teenager fell through a torn trampoline slide onto concrete. The waiver was signed. The jury found gross negligence anyway. That is the largest reported jury verdict against a U.S. commercial trampoline park, and it happened right here in Texas. It is the benchmark for the kind of accountability we demand for families in Village of The Hills.
When we build a case, we look at the physics that the parks ignore. We look at “double-bounce” energy transfer. When a 200-pound adult lands on a trampoline bed at the same instant a 50-pound child from Village of The Hills is pushing off, the energy transfer multiplies that child’s launch force up to 4x. The child isn’t jumping anymore; they are being catapulted. ASTM F2970-22, the industry standard, requires parks to separate jumpers by age and weight precisely because of this physics. Yet, we see these rules violated every Saturday afternoon at parks like Urban Air, Sky Zone, and Altitude.
Corporate parents like Sky Zone, Inc. (formerly CircusTrix LLC) and Unleashed Brands (the parent of Urban Air, acquired by Seidler Equity Partners in 2023) operate under a margin-focused model. They know the risks. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been warning since 1999 that trampolines do not belong in recreational centers for routine use. We hold these institutional defendants accountable by proving they chose profit over the safety requirements their own industry helped write.
Why the Waiver Is Noise, Not a Wall
The first thing a trampoline park manager will do is point to the electronic waiver you signed at the kiosk. They want you and every parent in Village of The Hills to believe you have no legal recourse. They are wrong. Our team includes Lupe Peña, an attorney who used to sit on the other side of the table—defending insurance companies and the very recreational businesses we now sue. He knows the playbook. He knows which waiver clauses are airtight and which ones are full of holes.
Texas law is specific. Under the landmark Munoz v. II Jaz Inc. decision, a parent in Texas cannot bind a minor child to a pre-injury waiver of the child’s own personal injury claim. While the Texas Supreme Court’s 2025 decision in Cerna v. Pearland Urban Air enforced certain delegation clauses for arbitration, the underlying right to recover for a child’s catastrophic injury remains. Furthermore, the Dresser Industries v. Page Petroleum “fair notice” doctrine requires that any release of negligence be “conspicuous” and “express.” Many kiosk waivers, rushed through on a tablet at a busy counter, fail this basic legal test.
If the injury resulted from gross negligence—the subjective awareness of an extreme risk and conscious indifference to it—the waiver does not apply. In Village of The Hills, we prosecute these as gross negligence cases. When a park knows its foam pit is compacted past the safety spec or that its attendants are on their phones instead of supervising, they are making a decision to accept the risk of your child’s injury.
The Mechanisms of Negligence: How Injuries Happen
We categorize trampoline accidents in Village of The Hills by the systemic failures that cause them. Each of these mechanisms corresponds to a specific violation of ASTM F2970 or ASTM F381.
Double-Bounce and Collision
Multi-jumper use is involved in nearly 75% of trampoline injuries. The energy transfer from a larger jumper to a smaller one is industry-studied physics. When a monitor at a park serving Village of The Hills fails to enforce age-segregation or “one jumper per square” rules, they are breaching the standard of care. We secure the surveillance video to prove that the attendant was looking the other way while the weight-mismatch was happening.
Foam Pit and Airbag Entrapment
Foam pits look soft, but they are often death traps or sources of permanent paralysis. If the foam blocks are old or compressed, the jumper hits the concrete subfloor. The 2012 death of Ty Thomasson at SkyPark Phoenix was tied to a foam pit that was only 2’8″ deep instead of the recommended 6′. In Village of The Hills area parks, we investigate the depth logs and replacement history of every pit. A head-first entry into a degraded pit can cause SCIWORA (Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality)—where the bones look fine on an X-ray but the spinal cord is irreversibly damaged.
Hanging and Zipline Failure: The Sky Rider Pattern
At Urban Air locations, the “Sky Rider” zipline attraction has a documented history of strangulation and harness failure. In Newnan, Georgia, a six-year-old was strangled by a cord while her father had to climb the netting to save her. We look at these as chain-wide design defects. If your child was hurt on a harness attraction near Village of The Hills, we look beyond the local park to the manufacturer, UA Attractions, LLC, and the franchisor’s failure to retrofit dangerous equipment.
The “Don’t Call 911” Tactic
A parent review of an Urban Air in Southlake, Texas, revealed a terrifying corporate pattern: employees allegedly instructed by management to NOT call 911 and to downplay injuries. We have seen this industry-wide. Every minute the park delays an emergency call is a minute they use to witnesses to scatter and video to get closer to the overwrite cycle.
The Rhabdo Bridge: A Unique Medical Authority
Attorney911 is currently litigating a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston involving rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure. This is the same catastrophic muscle and organ breakdown we see in children who engage in extended-jumping sessions at trampoline parks in the Village of The Hills area. Exertional rhabdo happens when a child jumps for 90 to 120 minutes in a hot indoor environment without water. Their muscle fibers rupture, releasing myoglobin that destroys the kidneys.
Parents in Village of The Hills need to watch for dark, “cola-colored” urine and extreme muscle pain 24-48 hours after a park visit. Most ERs miss this diagnosis on the first visit. We don’t. We have the medical experts and the institutional-accountability playbook to prove that the park’s “jump all day” marketing is a direct cause of kidney failure and compartment syndrome.
Evidence Preservation: The 7-Day Evidence Clock
The most critical fact for any family in Village of The Hills is this: park surveillance video is being overwritten as you read this. Most DVR systems in these facilities purge data every 7 to 30 days. Incident reports get “revised” on digital systems within 48 hours to remove admissions of fault. Waiver kiosk databases can be purged on narrow cycles.
Our spoliation letter goes out within 24 hours of your retention. We don’t just ask for the video; we demand the DVR hard drive, the access logs showing who viewed the footage, and the original, un-edited incident reports. If a park’s video “glitches” at the moment of injury—a pattern that resulted in a $3.5 million verdict in Georgia—we seek an adverse inference instruction. We force the court to recognize that missing evidence was evidence of guilt.
Catastrophic Pediatric Injuries: Growth Plates and Beyond
A “broken leg” at a trampoline park is never just a broken leg for a child from Village of The Hills. It is often a Salter-Harris fracture—an injury to the growth plate. These physes are cartilage, more vulnerable than bone, and if they are damaged at age seven, the bone may stop growing or grow crookedly. We don’t calculate damages based on today’s ER bill. We calculate them based on the corrective osteotomies, the prosthetic lifts, and the lifetime of orthopedic monitoring your child will need for the next decade.
We represent the parent at the bedside watching a specialist explain why their child may never play club sports again because of a Salter-Harris Type V crush injury. Our life-care planners project these costs into the millions, ensuring that your child’s recovery fund is sufficient for their adult life.
Liable Parties: Piercing the Corporate Shield
We don’t just sue the local LLC with a $1 million policy. We name the entire 5-layer stack of defendants:
- The Operator LLC: The local business.
- The Franchisee: The multi-unit ownership group.
- The Franchisor: Entities like Sky Zone Franchising LLC or UATP Management LLC.
- The Parent Corporation: Sky Zone, Inc. or Unleashed Brands.
- The Private Equity Sponsor: Firms like Palladium Equity or Seidler Equity who approved the cost-cutting measures that resulted in unsafe staffing ratios.
In Kansas, a father named Damion Collins secured a $15.6 million award after an Urban Air Wipe-Out attraction left him a quadriplegic. The franchisor, UATP Management LLC, was found 40% at fault. We use this precedent to show that Village of The Hills families can Reach the corporate money upstream.
Choosing Attorney911 for Village of The Hills
Most personal injury firms can’t tell you the difference between ASTM F381 and ASTM F2970. We have memorized both. Ralph Manginello brings federal court experience and a track record of multi-million dollar results to every case. Lupe Peña speaks Spanish natively and represents our Hispanic families directly—sin intérpretes, sin retrasos.
As client Chad Harris said, “You are NOT a pest to them and you are NOT just some client… You are FAMILY to them.” We treat the parents of Village of The Hills with that level of dedication. We advance every single cost of the investigation—the biomechanists, the pediatric orthopedic surgeons, the ASTM experts. You pay nothing unless we win.
Common Questions from Village of The Hills Parents
Can I sue if I signed the waiver at a park near Village of The Hills?
Yes. In Texas, parental waivers do not bar a minor’s personal claim (Munoz), and no waiver covers gross negligence or reckless disregard of ASTM safety standards. We attack waivers on five distinct legal fronts, from formation defects to unconscionability.
What is a “double bounce” and why is it dangerous?
It is the transfer of kinetic energy from a heavier mass to a lighter one through the trampoline bed. It can launch a child with up to 4x their normal jump force. ASTM F2970-22 requires monitors to prevent this. Failure to do so is negligence.
What should I do if my child has dark urine after visiting a park?
This is a medical emergency. Go to an emergency room immediately and ask for a Creatine Kinase (CK) test. It is a sign of rhabdomyolysis, which can lead to acute kidney failure. Once they are stable, call us. We lead the nation in litigating these specific medical-negligence cases.
How much does a trampoline injury lawyer cost?
Nothing upfront. We work on a contingency fee. We only get paid a percentage of the recovery we win for you. If we don’t win, you don’t owe us a dime. We take the financial risk so your family can focus on healing.
How long do I have to file a case in Texas?
The adult statute of limitations is two years, but for minors in Village of The Hills, it is tolled until they turn 18. However, you should never wait. The evidence—surveillance video and staff testimony—will be gone long before the legal deadline.
Your Next Steps in Village of The Hills
What happened to your child wasn’t an accident; it was the output of a system designed to maximize jumper throughput at the minimum possible cost. The American Academy of Pediatrics has been warning about this for twenty-five years. The industry wrote its own safety floor in ASTM F2970 and then chose to operate beneath it. The surveillance is designed to erase your proof before you find a lawyer.
We were built for this specific fight. Call 1-888-ATTY-911 or (888) 288-9911 right now. We are available 24/7. Hablamos Español. No fee unless we win. Your child’s case depends on what gets preserved this week. Our spoliation letter goes out within 24 hours of your call. Justice for your family starts today.
