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Playground negligence can lead to serious injury. Many Virginia playgrounds lack proper protective surfaces. Many have equipment with head entrapment hazards. Others have pieces with protruding parts. These cause clothing to get caught. All of these are hazards to a child.
The CPSC has a handbook that is an excellent guide to the standard of care for construction and maintenance of playgrounds. In addition the CPSC has a report dealing with the same subject. It sets similar standards. Most localities and school districts know these standards. Most comply with them. However non-compliance is most often found on older and privately maintained playgrounds. The age or ownership does not protect the owner from liability.
In any playground negligence case, you will need a playground safety expert.
The liability of the property owner or overseer of the playground is based on several theories:
If a child of yours had been injured from playground negligence, contact us. Brien Roche is a premises liability lawyer. Also for more info about premises liability see the other pages on this site. Also for more info about playgrounds see the pages on Wikipedia.