Heels smashed

Accident on a ski course: boy (11) seriously injured

When the ambulance finally arrived, the helicopter even had to be called, which flew the seriously injured boy to the ELKI in Klagenfurt.(Bild: P. Huber (Symbolbild))

A serious accident occurred shortly before Christmas during a school trip to Katschberg. An eleven-year-old boy from Klagenfurt jumped onto an uninflated mat in a trampoline hall - both of his heel bones were shattered. His mother is now making serious accusations.

"My son is now in a wheelchair for at least six weeks - there is no guarantee of recovery, of course there may be consequential damage because everything is so shattered. The heels have to be completely reconstructed," says the shocked mother in an interview with the "Krone" newspaper.

Both feet directly on concrete
Her son was on a ski course with his school when the accident happened. As they had done twice before, the pupils from a secondary school in Klagenfurt were visiting a trampoline hall next to the hotel. "Everything was fine on the previous visits," says Ms. P., but the fact that a "fatal mistake" happened that day puzzles the mother: "The teacher visited the hall with the pupils, the children took off their shoes and ran off. My son was the first to reach the platform. He jumped from four and a half meters onto the mat - but it wasn't inflated. My son landed with his feet directly on the concrete." 

He jumped from four and a half meters onto the mat - but it wasn't inflated. My son landed with his feet directly on the concrete.

Die Mutter schildert den Unfall

"Teacher is not a doctor"
According to the mother, the following scenes must have taken place afterwards: "The teacher carried my son out of the hall onto the couch because he couldn't move his feet. He then called me. When I asked him what had happened, the teacher told me that he wasn't a doctor. I was only supposed to pick up my son. Two and a half hours to Katschberg to pick up my seriously injured child, you have to imagine that. Only then was the ambulance finally called," says Mrs. P., stunned.

When the ambulance finally arrived, the helicopter even had to be requested to fly the seriously injured boy to ELKI in Klagenfurt. "He is currently undergoing surgery," the mother told the "Krone" newspaper on December 23. "What is particularly important to me is that such a serious accident and such abuses don't happen again. It's a horror!" 

The St. Michael im Lungau police station is now investigating the accident.