At Attorney911, we have spent more than 25 years standing in the gap for families whose lives were changed in a single second. We have sat at the hospital bedsides of children in Cresson and throughout North Texas, watching parents grapple with a reality they never expected when they pulled into the parking lot of a local trampoline park. We know that walk—the long, quiet walk from the waiting room to the trauma bay. We know the weight of the paperwork they hand you while your child is being imaged. And we know that behind every “unfortunate accident” at a jump park is a series of calculated business decisions that prioritized profit margins over pediatric safety.
If your child was injured at a trampoline park in or around Cresson, you are likely feeling a crushing mix of fear, anger, and guilt. We are here to tell you that the guilt doesn’t belong to you. You did what every other parent does: you wanted your child to have fun. You trusted the facility to be safe. You signed a waiver at a kiosk because the line was long and the attendant was rushing you. None of that makes you responsible for a broken femur, a traumatic brain injury, or a growth plate fracture. The responsibility lies with the corporate parents, the franchisors, and the operators who chose to ignore the standards the industry wrote for itself.
Ralph Manginello founded this firm in 1998 with a mission to hold the largest corporations in the world accountable. We have litigated against multinational giants like BP following the Texas City refinery explosion, and we currently manage a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston involving rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure. The national chains operating near Cresson—companies like Sky Zone, Urban Air, and Altitude—hire the same kind of corporate defense firms we have been beating for two decades. They don’t scare us. We’ve already fought that fight.
The Reality of Trampoline Injuries in Cresson and Beyond
Living in Cresson puts you at the crossroads of some of the most saturated trampoline park markets in the world. With Urban Air headquartered in Grapevine and Altitude Trampoline Park based in Fort Worth, our region is essentially the laboratory for the industry’s rapid expansion. On any given Saturday afternoon, thousands of North Texas children are airborne. According to the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR 2024), up to 1.6% of all pediatric emergency department trauma visits are now trampoline-related. This is no longer a niche recreational hazard; it is a documented pediatric trauma category.
The data is sobering. A landmark study published in the journal Pediatrics by Teague et al. in January 2024 tracked over 13,000 injuries. They found that in commercial parks, the injury rate for foam pits is 1.91 per 1,000 jumper-hours. For “high-performance” jumping, that rate climbs to 2.11 per 1,000. These aren’t just figures on a page; they represent children in Cresson facing surgeries, body casts, and years of physical therapy.
When a 200-pound adult lands on a trampoline mat near a 50-pound child, the energy transfer can multiply the child’s launch force by up to 4x. The child isn’t jumping anymore; they are being catapulted. This is the physics of the “double-bounce,” a mechanism the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been warning parents about since 1999. Despite these warnings, many parks near Cresson continue to allow mismatched jumpers on the same court because it is easier than enforcing strict age and weight segregation.
Why the Waiver You Signed in Cresson Is Not a Wall
The most common thing we hear from parents in Cresson is: “I signed the waiver, so I probably don’t have a case.” The insurance companies want you to believe that. Their adjusters are trained to mentioned the waiver in the first thirty seconds of a phone call to discourage you from seeking legal help. But our associate attorney, Lupe Peña, used to sit on the other side of that table. He spent years defending recreational businesses and insurance carriers. He knows exactly where the holes are in their paperwork because he used to be the one trying to patch them.
In Texas, a waiver is not a blank check for a park to be negligent. There are three primary reasons that piece of paper you signed near Cresson likely won’t stop our investigation:
- Gross Negligence Carve-Out: Texas courts, following the landmark Moriel decision, generally refuse to enforce waivers when the injury resulted from gross negligence. If a park in the Cresson area knew an attraction was dangerous—perhaps a torn mat or an understaffed foam pit—and chose to keep it open anyway, the waiver often fails. In Harris County, a jury awarded $11.485 million against Cosmic Jump for a torn trampoline slide that resulted in a TBI. The waiver was signed. The jury found gross negligence anyway.
- The Munoz Doctrine: Since the 1993 case of Munoz v. II Jaz Inc., Texas law has been clear: a parent cannot bind a minor child to a pre-injury waiver of the child’s own personal injury claim. While you may have waived your own right to sue for your child’s medical bills, your child’s right to seek compensation for their own pain, suffering, and future impairment remains alive.
- Fair Notice and Conspicuousness: Under the Dresser doctrine, the release language must be “conspicuous.” If the legal warnings were buried in a 20-page digital click-through on a kiosk near Cresson, or if the font was too small to read while your excited kids were pulling on your arm, the waiver may be legally invalid.
We also look at Signer Authority. If a grandmother, an aunt, or a family friend signed for your child at a birthday party, Texas Family Code § 153.073 says they likely had no legal authority to do so. The waiver is noise; it is not a wall. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911, and let us take that paper apart for you.
Systemic Negligence: The Business Decision Behind the Injury
We don’t view a trampoline injury as a “freak accident.” We view it as the predictable output of a system designed to maximize throughput at the expense of safety. Most parks near Cresson operate under ASTM F2970, a voluntary standard the trampoline industry actually wrote for itself. Even though the industry set the bar, many parks fail to meet it.
We investigate whether the park near Cresson violated these core standards:
- Attendant-to-Jumper Ratios: F2970 requires specific staffing levels. On a busy Saturday, many parks cut corners to save on labor. If one teenager was responsible for watching 60 kids, the park was negligent.
- Foam Pit Maintenance: Foam pits are among the most dangerous attractions. Over time, the foam cubes compact and lose their ability to absorb impact. If the pit depth isn’t checked and recorded daily, a child can hit the hard floor beneath the foam.
- Age and Weight Separation: The industry knows children under six should not be on the same courts as adults. If a park near Cresson allowed an adult to “double-bounce” your toddler, they breached their duty of care.
The parent conglomerate behind Sky Zone and DEFY—Sky Zone, Inc. (formerly CircusTrix)—is backed by Palladium Equity Partners. Urban Air’s parent, Unleashed Brands, was recently acquired by Seidler Equity Partners. These are massive, private-equity-backed corporations. When they decide to reduce training hours for 16-year-old “court monitors” or delay foam replacement, they are gambling with your child’s spine to hit a profit target. We use the discovery process to find the emails and investment memos where those decisions were made.
Pediatric Injuries: The Medical Stakes for Cresson Families
A “broken bone” in a child is never just a broken bone. Because children in Cresson are still growing, a fracture can be a decade-long medical event. We focus on the medical specificity that general practice firms often miss.
- Salter-Harris Growth Plate Fractures: These are injuries to the cartilage at the ends of long bones. If not managed by a specialist, a Salter-Harris fracture at age nine can result in one leg being measurably shorter than the other by age fourteen.
- SCIWORA (Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality): This is a terrifying pediatric phenomenon where a child sustains a permanent spinal cord injury even if their X-rays and CT scans look “normal.” The ligamentous flexibility of a child’s neck allows the cord to be stretched to the point of ischemia while the bones snap back into place.
- Exertional Rhabdomyolysis: This is a bridge to our $10 million UH litigation. Children who jump for ninety minutes in a hot North Texas facility without proper hydration can suffer massive muscle breakdown. When that muscle protein (myoglobin) hits the kidneys, they can shut down. If your child had dark, tea-colored urine after a park visit, they need an ER immediately and a lawyer who understands the myoglobin cascade.
We don’t just calculate your current ER bills. We work with life-care planners and pediatric orthopedists to project the next forty to sixty years of your child’s life. We account for future surgeries, educational accommodations, and the loss of athletic scholarships. A settlement must cover the child’s entire future, not just the ambulance ride.
The Evidence Clock: Why Speed Matters in Cresson
The most important thing to know if you are in Cresson is that the evidence is disappearing. Most trampoline parks use surveillance systems that overwrite footage in as little as 7 to 30 days. Incident reports get “revised” once they reach the corporate risk-management desk. The 17-year-old attendant who saw your child fall might quit next week.
Our spoliation letter goes out within 24 hours of being retained. We demand the park preserve:
- Multi-angle surveillance footage.
- Original, unedited incident reports.
- Daily inspection logs for the foam pit and padding.
- Staff time-clock records to prove understaffing.
- The metadata from the waiver kiosk to verify the exact time of signature.
If the park’s video “glitches” at the precise moment of the injury, we know how to handle it. In a Georgia case (Mathew Knight), a jury awarded $3.5 million partly because the defense surveillance video conveniently glitched on four cameras simultaneously. We don’t take “it’s lost” for an answer.
Frequently Asked Questions for Cresson Parents
Can I sue if the park told us not to call 911?
Yes. We have seen reports, including a review from an Urban Air in Southlake, where parents alleged that employees were instructed by management to NOT call 911 for injuries. This is a common tactic used to downplay the severity of an incident and keep emergency call volumes out of the public record. If a park employee interfered with your ability to get emergency care, that is evidence of gross negligence.
How much is my child’s case worth?
Every case in Cresson is unique, but the stakes in this industry are high. Settlements and verdicts for catastrophic spinal or brain injuries have ranged from $2 million to over $15 million nationally. Even for serious fractures with growth plate involvement, recoveries can reach into the high six figures to ensure the child’s medical future is secure.
What if I didn’t see exactly how it happened?
That’s where our investigators come in. We use biomechanical engineers to reconstruct the fall, subpoena the park’s surveillance footage, and track down other families who were there that day. Most parents are focused on their child’s pain at the moment of injury—not on being a crime-scene investigator. We take over the investigation so you can focus on the recovery.
Is the franchisor responsible or just the local park?
We go upstream. The $15.6 million Collins v. Urban Air award proved that the franchisor cannot hide behind the “independent operator” defense when they maintain systemic control over safety and training. Whether the park is in Cresson or elsewhere in Texas, the money is often found at the corporate parent level.
Why Choose Attorney911 for Your Cresson Trampoline Case?
We represent families, not files. When client Chad Harris said, “You are NOT just some client… You are FAMILY to them,” he was describing the core of how we practice law. We represent the parent who is worried about how they’re going to pay for the next surgery while the park’s adjuster is offering a “quick $5,000 settlement.”
We advance all investigation costs—the biomechanical engineer, the pediatric orthopedic consultant, the ASTM specialist. You pay nothing unless we win. Our Texas offices are the launch point for a national practice focused on one thing: making sure that when a corporation earns hundreds of millions of dollars from North Texas families, they are held to a standard that protects North Texas children.
Muchas de las víctimas de lesiones en parques de trampolines son niños de familias hispanohablantes. Nuestro abogado asociado Lupe Peña es hispanohablante nativo y representa a nuestros clientes directamente—sin intérpretes. Si firmó un documento en inglés y su idioma principal es español, la doctrina de Delfingen puede invalidar esa renuncia.
Call us today at 1-888-ATTY-911. The evidence in Cresson is fading, and the insurance companies have already started building their defense. It’s time to start building yours.
Understanding the Liability Stack in a Cresson Trampoline Case
When we file a lawsuit for a family in Cresson, we look at every single entity that touched your child’s experience. This includes the individual attendant who might have been distracted by their phone, but more importantly, it includes the layers above them. The operator LLC, the franchisee, and the corporate franchisor like Sky Zone Franchising LLC or Urban Air Franchise Holdings all have different insurance towers.
In North Texas, we have seen a documented pattern of injuries. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported over 500 injuries in 21 parks over just seven years. This aggregate data is critical because it proves that the risks were foreseeable. When we depose a park’s operations manager, we don’t just ask about your child’s injury; we ask about the dozens of injuries that happened before it that they failed to learn from.
We have seen cases where climbing wall harnesses were never attached, resulting in 30-foot falls to concrete. We have seen toddlers double-bounced by adults until their femurs gave way. These are not just “unfortunate events.” They are the results of a failure to supervise that violates the very standards the parks claim to follow.
The Hidden Costs of a Trampoline Injury for Cresson Families
The economic impact of a catastrophic injury in Cresson extends far beyond the hospital bills. We calculate the lifetime earnings loss for your child if they can’t pursue certain careers. We look at the cost of special education if a TBI has resulted in academic regression. We use tax-adjusted life care plans to ensure that if your child needs medical monitoring for the next fifty years, the park pays for every single day of it.
If your child was hurt at a trampoline park anywhere near Cresson, do not let an insurance company tell you what your family is worth. They are looking at a spreadsheet; we are looking at a child.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911 today. No fee unless we win. Hablamos Español.
