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Is this the end for Flip Out? Under-fire trampoline firm already being probed for string of accidents that left 11 customers with broken backs faces fresh calls to shut down after child, 10, dies in 'unexplained' tragedy

Aug 19, 2024 Life IDOPRESS

The death of a child at a Flip Out trampoline centre will raise further questions about the business' future with it having previously been hit by a string of horrifying accidents and gruesome injuries. 

A boy,10,died after falling ill at the Glasgow park yesterday with customers hearing 'hysterical screaming' coming from the bouncy castle area. 

Police have described the death as 'unexplained' but there are not thought to be any 'suspicious' circumstances. 

It's the latest tragedy to have befallen the company,and comes after furious visitors last November called for what they labelled as Britain's 'most dangerous trampoline parks' to be shut down. 

Among the horrific injuries they had suffered included broken necks,ankles nearly being torn off,with one man being left paralysed from the neck down. 

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George had to undergo gruelling surgery to replace his shattered vertebrae with a metal disk

When flagged to staff member,the mother claims her concerns were dismissed.

A mother-of-two,who gave her name as Collette,was at the Poole Flip Out when her accident occurred.

She previously told MailOnline: 'Whilst there I got knocked out by a ball. The staff did not know what to do and let me walk about once I came to with my two children without any care or concern.

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'They did not get me medical care. A member of the public treated me as they [the staff] did not know what to do.

Rebecca Nash,who snapped her ankle at Chichester Flip Out park in 2019,has previously called for the parks to close.

She said in November: 'I was being encouraged to jump back by the staff member in the section to gain more height. As I jumped back my ankle rolled 90 degrees under me as I landed on the trampoline,breaking the ankle and opening it all the way up under the pressure.

'My foot was hanging on by tendons and facing the wrong way. By the time I arrived at hospital I was advised it could end up as an amputation.'

Fortunately for Rebecca she had 'a talented surgeon who was able to reattach the foot and close the wound' but it was 'so badly torn' that there were difficulties determining where ripped ligaments and tendons were attached.

As a result,Rebecca said she had to spend two weeks in hospital and was signed off sick from work for four month,which resulted her losing her job as she had only started a few weeks beforehand.

'I was a single mother at the time to a five-year-old so it was a very stressful time,' she added.

Horrific photos reveal the extent of Rebecca's injury,with blood pouring out of a huge cut on the side of her ankle bone. 

MailOnline has contacted Flip Out for comment. 

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