Ensure correct position on swimming pool slide

Ensure correct position on swimming pool slide

06/25/2014

As emerges from a judgment of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Hamm, one should pay attention to the signs in the swimming pool for the correct slipping attitude, if one slides down a wave-shaped slide. The court dismissed the claim for damages of a visitor to the open air.

Follow the signs for slip resistance
A judgment of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Hamm shows that visitors to the bath who slide down a wave-shaped slide in the swimming pool should pay attention to the signs for correct slipping. The judges thus rejected the claim for damages of an outdoor visitor, who had injured himself on the wave-shaped slide, as an afp message indicates. If the woman followed the slip instructions, the danger of injury would have been avoidable, according to the civil senate. The then 22-year-old had contracted a fracture on the lumbar spine in 2009 on the slide.

Danger of injury if instructions are not observed
The applicant argued in court that undulations in wave form are dangerous, since the user could take off while sliding down and then injure himself on impact on the slide. The court, however, referred to the attached to the slide evidence of slipping position, after which was sitting and bent forward to slip. On „unwanted lifting“ be „physically not possible“, when slipped in this position. Only when the user contrary to the instructions an upright posture take, he come on a wave in an unfavorable position in which the legs would be raised and the feet fly up, so that the slide user gerate in a supine position and then injure under unfortunate circumstances could.

Slide locked for women
Accidents on water slides in bathrooms always cause a stir and often deal with dishes. For example, fractures of the arms, legs or thoracic spine have occurred in the past. Also of cuts and burns while slipping has been reported. In addition, in accidents there is a risk of concussion, a whiplash or a rib bruise. Two years ago the spa in Erding in Bavaria caused quite a stir. There, a slide was blocked for women after spa visitors had to be hospitalized with bleeding again and again. There were serious injuries in the genital area, as the women had arrived at high speed and with their legs open in the water. At that time, operators were thinking about women's trousers. (Ad)