Accident in gym, pretty annoyed 😕

[Mermaid27]

Bit of a rant, a few weeks ago at our local DL club, my husband suffered a dislocated shoulder. My daughter was having her gym induction and being shown how to use the treadmill, with the gym instructor on the other side. The man using the treadmill on the other side of her stepped off and took his water bottle with him so my husband went to step on his treadmill to be next to my daughter, only the complete twat left his treadmill on level 14!!! My husband basically flew off, spun round and landed smack down on his shoulder.

all of this in front on my 12 year old daughter. He somehow managed to hobble down the stairs, where they tried to call him an ambulance, only there was a 6 hour wait so I took him up instead. He was treated relatively quickly (3 hours) and had his shoulder reset and sent home with pain meds.

My hubby had a meeting with the manager to discuss a gesture for the incident and he’s offered…2 months free membership for my husband and 3 free PT sessions.

part of me is insulted by this, it’s something that should never have happened and quite a serious incident that happened in there club. Did the member who left the treadmill on have an induction telling him how to use the equipment correctly etc? Everyone who knows thinks it’s awful what’s happened and David Lloyd should be taking more accountability for what’s happened.

the other part of me thinks I should pipe down and this isn’t the USA where everyone’s dues everyone 😂 I have looked online and a no win no fee case could be between £2k-£48k so I kind of feel David Lloyd aren’t taking it that seriously ☹️ my hubbies going to have up pay for lots of physio now

1. If he got on a treadmill that was still running, that's his own fault.
2. If he got on a treadmill that wasn't still running without being aware that the sides are there precisely so you can nope out if it's a bit too quick, that's his fault.
3. If he got on a treadmill that wasn't still running but didn't bother putting the clip on so that he could nope out the moment it moved at a million miles an hour, that's his own fault.
4. If he actually tried showing off in front of his own kid and the trainer doing her induction and ended up splodged over the carpet as a direct result of putting it up too fast to try and look impressive next to the trainer, that's his own fault.

The hospital will refer for free physio via outpatients

sorry but you said you said your daughter was having induction? i presume your husband already had it...he is the idiot for not checking machine before getting on. Not the gyms fault. Silly man

Is your husband even a frequent user of the gym? Has he been shown how to use a treadmill or did he just hop on? It screams to me as someone inexperienced.

it was your DHs error, not the gym. Why on earth would anyone jump on a moving treadmill without checking?

Oh and you don’t have to have a gym induction with David Lloyd at all. Just sign up and turn up.

Greedy, grabby and embarrassing

This with bells on....

Sorry I dont believe this. He got on a treadmill that was already going very fast?- thats on him 100%

DL have admitted liability by offering compensation.

You have nothing to lose by contacting their insurers and putting in a claim.

You sue the insurance company not the gym - go for it - nobody should leave a premises that injured

I can’t imagine what kind of idiot gets on a treadmill that’s running.

This was your husband’s fault.

If he needs therapy, the nhs will refer him.

I loathe this ‘what can we get out of this?’ attitude whereby people immediately get pound signs in their eyes. Sickening.

It seems like I'm the only one siding with you OP.

Instead of looking online at no win/no fee pay a fee and go and speak to a solicitor about what your rights are. I absolutely think £48k compensation isn't unreasonable for discomfort, loss of earnings and private physiotherapy. NHS physiotherapy has a very long waiting list and the more and earlier you get physiotherapy the less long term effects there will be.

Speak to a properly qualified person, a solicitor who specialises in personal injury claims. Also, if the gym aren't responsible, then maybe the man who left it running is and you might have a case against him.

Does noone take personal responsibility series these days has it always to be some one elses fault?

Oh give over

This x1000

Didn’t your husband think to check the treadmill before he stepped on.
Sometimes we have to take responsibility for our own actions.

Say WHAT??!!
I can't even believe they're giving him anything free. How on earth did he not realise the treadmill was going??!!? Its not their fault your husband is a bit....erm.....on another planet. And why is a 12yr old in the gym?! It's usually 16yrs old min. But anyway that's another subject. YABU. What on earth.

This sounds like the treadmill was off but when turned off left at level 14. Ops H turned on whilst on it - and automatically at L14. Still DHs issue not DL - one of the first things you are taught is turn on whilst on the side bars/panels before stepping on the moving section.

Sounds like an entire family of bed wetters. Who goes to the gym with their 12 yr old for a gym induction?!? How embarrassing. And not jumping to the static sides of the treadmill whilst pressing down rapidly is really weird. I'm flabbergasted DL offered you anything tbh.

Still takes a few seconds to get up to 14 if turned off

Assuming that you mean the treadmill was actually running already at breakneck speed (level 14) and didn't just suddenly spring into action at that level (unlikely, I would have thought) then your husband was a twat to get on it without stopping it first.

I don't think he is owed any kind of compensation, and asking for a "gesture" was just greedy and makes him look like a gold-digger. He won't have to pay for private physio unless he chooses to. The NHS does provide it after these types of injury when the time is right.

Was he trying to show off in front of your daughter? It certainly sounds spectacular, but for all the wrong reasons.

I still hope his injury heals well.

Fucking Hell. Forty Eight Grand?

He only allegedly popped his shoulder out for a couple of hours - he's not exactly left his wanking arm underneath the elliptical.

Did the member who left the treadmill on have an induction telling him how to use the equipment correctly etc?

Did you husband not get told at his induction how to use the equipment correctly?

I sometimes run at Level 14. It’s 14 kilometres per hour. It’s noisy and you’d have to be pretty unobservant not to see the speed of the belt.

The member who left it running may have been a total arsefaced fuckwit if he just stepped off and left it running (like the member at my gym who leaves treadmill ramped up to incline level 7 and walks away). If this is the case, that member needs a warning that if he does it again they’ll suspend his membership. It is really fuckwitted to leave a treadmill running if you’ve finished using it.

OTOH the member might have been doing an intervals training session - I do these. You set the treadmill at the pace you want, run 55 seconds or whatever, then hop off to do another exercise, than jump back on the treadmill for an interval, and so on. There is a technique for getting on and off a moving treadmill safely. It wastes time stopping and starting the treadmill.

So I think that the blame is not entirely on David Lloyd. You should always actually look at a treadmill before you just step on it!

What you’ve been offered is plenty. Your husband should organise an optician’s appointment as well as the physio.

This sounds like the treadmill was off but when turned off left at level 14.

That's what I was thinking. Why has everyone else assumed (very vocally) that the DH is a plank and has stepped onto a moving treadmill???

5 pages in and I suspect the OP won’t be back.

Compensation, I win/no fee is utterly ridiculous. Induction will likely have included a statement about checking the machine is off before you get on.