New York Child Park Injury Attorneys

If your young child was injured while playing on playground equipment at a park in New York, please contact Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro. Our New York park injury attorneys are skilled in various areas of personal injury law and have the knowledge to successfully represent children's injury cases. Due to the quality legal representation that we provide, our attorneys have recovered millions of dollars for our injured clients. Please contact a New York premises liability lawyer at Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro for a free consultation.

Many playground and park injuries are the result of dangerous equipment that has been negligently maintained. In fact, every year in the United States, over 200,000 children under the age of fourteen require emergency room treatment as the result of playground equipment related injuries. In a recent ten year period more than 145 children died from injuries sustained from playground equipment, with a majority of the deaths resulting from strangulations.

Playground equipment, including slides, swings, merry-go-rounds, see-saws, and climbing toys may place your child at risk for many injuries; especially if the equipment is defective, weathered, rusted, was not installed properly, is unstable, or is in any other way dangerous.

Equipment that allows children to climb to a particularly elevated point can result in serious injuries if a child falls off the toy. Depending upon the height at which a fall takes place a child may suffer from a concussion, bone fractures, spinal cord injury, and numerous other injuries.

Many sets of old playground equipment were painted with lead based paints, which pose the threat of lead poisoning in children if they ingest flakes of the paint. Lead poisoning has been known to cause learning disabilities, delayed development, hearing difficulties, and behavioral disorders in children.

In addition to the play equipment, the surfacing surrounding the equipment must be made of durable and padded (shock absorbing) material, and be in good condition. When a child falls, if he or she lands on a padded surface there is a chance that the injury may be less severe, compared to a child falling onto a hard surface, such as cement.

If your child has been the victim of park or playground injury in New York, please contact the experienced New York child injury lawyers at Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro.