What happens inside a trampoline park on a Saturday afternoon near Farmersville is not an accident. It is the predictable outcome of a corporate system. Whether your family was visiting a large chain and adventure park in Frisco, McKinney, or a local spot in Collin County, the moment your child left the ground, they entered a high-velocity environment where safety rules are often treated as suggestions.
When the double-bounce happens, when the netting fails, or when a child lands in a foam pit that hasn’t been refilled in months, the scream that follows changes a family forever. We have heard that scream before. As Kaitlin “Kati” Hill told ABC News after her three-year-old suffered a broken femur, “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.”
You are likely reading this from a hospital bedside or a quiet living room in Farmersville while your child is in a cast. You might be staring at the medical bills and the “Participation Agreement” you signed at the kiosk, wondering if you have any rights at all.
You do.
At Attorney911, led by Ralph Manginello, we have spent over 25 years holding the world’s largest corporations accountable. We’ve gone head-to-head with BP after the Texas City refinery explosion and litigated against giants like Walmart, Amazon, and FedEx. We aren’t intimidated by the private-equity-backed conglomerates that own these parks—companies like Sky Zone, Inc. (backed by Palladium Equity Partners) or Unleashed Brands (the parent of Urban Air, backed by Seidler Equity Partners).
Our team includes associate attorney Lupe Peña, who used to defend insurance companies and recreational businesses. He knows exactly how they draft those waivers to scare you, and more importantly, he knows exactly where the holes are in their defense. If you were told you can’t sue because you signed a waiver, they are counting on you not knowing the law. We are here to change that.
Why Your Injury at a Farmersville-Area Trampoline Park Happened
In a town like Farmersville, where family values and youth sports are the heartbeat of the community, we trust businesses to keep our children safe. We trust that if we pay admission, the park is following the rules. But the truth is, the trampoline park industry is largely self-regulated. Imagine a Saturday rush at a park near McKinney or Frisco. The courts are packed with kids from Farmersville ISD and surrounding areas. The staff—mostly teenagers—are overworked and under-trained.
When an injury occurs, it isn’t “bad luck.” It’s often a violation of ASTM F2970, the industry’s own safety standard. They wrote the rules, and yet they frequently fail to follow them.
The Physics of the Double-Bounce
The most common mechanism of injury we see is the “double-bounce.” If your child was jumping and a larger person—perhaps an adult or a teenager—landed on the same trampoline bed at the same time, the energy transfer was catastrophic. The physics are simple but brutal: a 200-pound adult landing while a 60-pound child pushes off can multiply the child’s launch force by 4x.
The child isn’t jumping anymore. They’ve become a projectile. This is how femurs snap. This is how growth plates are destroyed. ASTM F2970 requires parks to separate jumpers by age and weight, but in the chaos of a busy weekend on US-380 or TX-78, those rules are the first to be ignored.
The Foam Pit Illusion
Foam pits look soft and safe. They are often anything but. If your child dived or fell into a pit and hit the hard floor beneath, that is a maintenance failure. Foam blocks compact over time. They lose their “fluff.” If the park doesn’t rotate and refill them according to standard, they provide no more protection than a pile of bricks.
We look for the logs. We demand the maintenance records. We want to know exactly when those foam cubes were last serviced. In the Anthony Seitz case out of Minnesota, a $3 million paralysis settlement was reached because the park knew the foam pit was inadequate and did nothing about it. We see the same patterns here in North Texas.
The Waiver Architecture: Why It Isn’t a Wall
The first thing the insurance adjuster will say when you call is, “You signed a waiver.” They want you to think the case is over before it begins.
In Texas, we have specific laws that protect your family from being bullied by a piece of paper.
The Dresser “Fair Notice” Doctrine
Under Texas law—specifically the landmark case Dresser Industries, Inc. v. Page Petroleum—a waiver that releases a company from its own negligence must meet two strict standards:
- Express Negligence: The waiver must specifically use the word “negligence.”
- Conspicuousness: The language must be bold, large, or in a contrasting color so a reasonable person in Farmersville would actually see it.
Many kiosk waivers used by national chains fail this test. If the text was small, buried in 20 pages of digital legalese, or rushed through at a crowded counter, it may be legally worthless.
The Munoz Rule: Protecting Farmersville Children
If your child was the one injured, the waiver has an even bigger problem. THE Texas rule established in Munoz v. II Jaz, Inc. is that a parent cannot sign away a minor child’s right to sue for personal injuries. Your signature on that iPad might bar your claims for medical bills, but it generally cannot stop your child from seeking justice for their own pain, suffering, and permanent impairment.
Gross Negligence and the Cosmic Jump Precedent
No waiver in Texas can protect a park from “gross negligence.” This is defined as conduct that involves an extreme degree of risk that the park was aware of but chose to ignore.
Think about the Cosmic Jump case in Harris County. A 16-year-old fell through a torn trampoline mat onto concrete and suffered a brain injury. The park knew about the tear. They left it open anyway. The jury ignored the waiver and awarded $11.485 million. When we investigate your case, we are looking for that level of conscious indifference. Did the manager know the Zip Line harness was frayed? Did they know the monitor on Court 4 was on his phone? If they did, their waiver is a wet paper bag.
If your family’s primary language is Spanish, and the park only gave you an English waiver without explaining it, the Delfingen doctrine may apply. This allows us to challenge the waiver because you couldn’t have truly agreed to something you couldn’t read. Lupe Peña speaks with our Spanish-speaking clients directly—no interpreters needed. Hablamos Español. Llame al 1-888-ATTY-911.
Catastrophic Injuries are Not “Broken Bones”
When a surgeon at a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center like Children’s Medical Center Dallas explains that your child has a Salter-Harris fracture, they aren’t just talking about a break. They are talking about a lifetime of consequences.
Growth Plate Damage (Salter-Harris Fractures)
Children’s bones grow from the ends, in areas of cartilage called growth plates. A trampoline landing that crushes this cartilage can stop the bone from growing entirely or cause it to grow at an angle. Your child is eight years old today. The true extent of the damage might not be visible until they are fourteen and one leg is measurably shorter than the other.
We work with life-care planners and pediatric orthopedic experts to project these costs out for the next 70 years. We don’t settle for “current medicals.” We fight for the future.
SCIWORA and Cervical Injuries
Then there is SCIWORA—Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality. This is a terrifying pediatric phenomenon where a child’s neck isn’t broken on an X-ray, but the spinal cord has been stretched or starved of blood. It often happens in head-first foam pit landings.
Initial CT scans often come back “normal,” and the park might try to send you home. Hours later, the child loses feeling in their legs. As we’ve seen in viral cases like Elle Yona’s TikTok journey, a botched backflip can lead to a spinal-cord stroke that was initially misdiagnosed as a panic attack. If your child’s symptoms aren’t being taken seriously, we help you push for the MRI with STIR sequences that find the truth.
Rhabdomyolysis: The Silent Killer
If your child jumps for 90 minutes straight in a hot, poorly ventilated warehouse and then complains of extreme muscle pain and has dark, “cola-colored” urine, this is a medical emergency. It’s called exertional rhabdomyolysis. Muscle tissue is breaking down and poisoning the kidneys.
We currently litigate a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston involving this exact pathology. We know the experts, the lab values (like Creatine Kinase levels exceeding 50,000), and the accountability theories needed to win these complex medical cases.
Learn more about dealing with insurance in our video guide: “What to Do if Your Insurance Claim Is Denied” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsdXq0WOH8M
The Evidence Clock: Why Farmersville Families Must Act Now
While you are focusing on your child’s recovery, the park is focusing on their defense. They have a system. You need one too.
The most important evidence in your case is currently sitting on a hard drive in a manager’s office. Park surveillance DVRs are usually set to overwrite every 7 to 30 days. If we don’t demand that footage immediately, the Saturday afternoon your child was hurt will be erased forever.
Our spoliation protocol is aggressive. Within 24 hours of being hired, we send a certified legal demand to the park, the franchisee, and the corporate franchisor (whether that’s Sky Zone Franchising LLC or UATP Management LLC). We demand:
- Multi-angle surveillance video.
- The original, handwritten incident report (before it gets “revised” by corporate risk management).
- The time-clock records of the monitors on duty.
- The training files of the teenagers who were supposed to be watching your kid.
- The “loss run” history of that location—how many other kids got hurt on that same court this year?
We don’t wait for “standard” timelines. We move at the speed of the evidence. Learn more in our video guide: “I’ve Had an Accident — What Should I Do First?” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCox4Lq7zBM
Who Really Pays? Piercing the Corporate Stack
One of the biggest myths in trampoline injury law is that you are only suing the local “mom and pop” owner. Transitioning from Farmersville to the big city parks, families encounter a complex web of LLCs designed to hide the money.
We use “Corporate Archeology” to map the defendants:
- The Operator LLC: The entity that owns the Frisco or McKinney location.
- The Franchisee: The multi-unit holding company.
- The Franchisor: Giant entities like Urban Air Franchise Holdings.
- The Corporate Parent: Sky Zone, Inc. or Unleashed Brands.
- The Private Equity Sponsor: The ultimate deep pockets, like Palladium Equity Partners.
In the Damion Collins v. Urban Air case in Kansas, a $15.6 million award was handed down. The franchisor—the corporate office—was hit with 40% of the fault. Why? Because they controlled the safety training and the design of the attraction. We don’t stop at the local level. We go upstream where the real insurance towers live.
Why Hire Attorney911 for Your Farmersville Case?
There are 500 injury reports across 21 trampoline parks in the DFW metro alone. Most personal injury firms handle these like a standard trip-and-fall. They aren’t built for this vertical.
- We know the standards: We can quote ASTM F2970 and F381 from memory. We know what the supervisor’s manual says about foam pit rotation.
- We know the medicine: Our experience in the $10M UH rhabdomyolysis case gives us a medical edge most lawyers lack.
- We know the defense: Lupe Peña spent years defending these exact businesses. He knows which adjuster is being honest and which one is trying the “Recorded Statement Trap.”
- We advance the costs: These cases require biomechanical engineers and pediatric specialists. Those experts cost thousands. We pay for them upfront. You pay nothing unless we win.
As our client Donald Wilcox said, “One company said they would not accept my case. Then I got a call from Manginello… I got a call to come pick up this handsome check.” We take the difficult cases that others find “too hard” because of the waiver. We know the waiver is just noise.
Hablamos Español. Llame al 1-888-ATTY-911. Sin honorarios a menos que ganemos.
Frequently Asked Questions for Families in Farmersville
Can I sue if I signed the paper waiver on the iPad?
Yes. As we discussed, Texas law has high standards for “Fair Notice.” Also, your signature generally cannot bind your minor child’s personal injury claim under the Munoz doctrine. If the park was grossly negligent—serving 100 kids with only one monitor—the waiver is essentially void.
What if the injury wasn’t on a trampoline?
Modern parks like Urban Air and Altitude are now “Family Entertainment Centers.” We handle cases involving Sky Rider ziplines, climbing walls, go-karts, and ninja courses. The Matthew Lu case in North Carolina, where a boy fell from a climbing wall because he wasn’t harnessed in, is a prime example of why these attractions are often more dangerous than the trampolines themselves.
How long do we have to do something?
In Texas, the personal injury statute of limitations is two years. For a child, that clock is “tolled” until they turn eighteen, giving them until age twenty. However, you should never wait. The evidence clock is the one that matters. Surveillance video and staff witnesses disappear in weeks, not years. Call us before the DVR overwrites.
What is my trampoline injury case worth?
Valor depends on the severity of the injury and the degree of the park’s negligence. Settlements can range from $50,000 for a clean fracture to multi-million dollar awards for traumatic brain injuries or spinal damage. We build a Life Care Plan to quantify every dollar your child will need for the rest of their life. For more, see our video: “How Do Insurance Companies Calculate Pain and Suffering?” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EE9AWT12Kg
What if my child was hurt at a neighbor’s house in Farmersville?
Backyard trampoline cases are different. We look at the homeowner’s insurance and the “attractive nuisance” doctrine. Even if a child wasn’t explicitly invited, a homeowner can be liable if they leave a trampoline unsecured. We also look at the manufacturer—brands like Jumpking or Skywalker—for design defects or failed welds.
The Inevitability of Accountability
What happened to your child at an Urban Air, Sky Zone, or Altitude park wasn’t a freak accident. It was the predictable output of a business that prioritized throughput over safety. The American Academy of Pediatrics has been warning about recreational trampoline use since 1999. The industry wrote its own safety floor in 2013 with ASTM F2970. The park simply chose to walk underneath it.
Your child’s case is decided by what we preserve this week. The DVR is counting down. The attendant is likely looking for a new job. The “revised” incident report is being drafted.
We represent families in Farmersville, across Collin County, and throughout Texas. We treat our clients like family, as Chad Harris noted: “You are NOT a pest to them and you are NOT just some client… You are FAMILY to them.”
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. We answer 24/7. Hablamos Español. No fee unless we win. We advance every expert. Your child’s recovery fund stays untouched. The case starts today.
