IDI#
Date |
Age and Sex of Victim |
City, State, Venue |
Death or
Serious Injury |
Scenario |
#1
790924HIA0380
09/19/79
** |
9 year old female |
Dunwoody, GA
Municipal Park |
Death |
Victim was kneeling and tying her
shoe when other students, swinging from the goal, caused it to topple over and fatally
strike the victim.
|
#2
920113CCC3175
09/30/79
** |
9 year old male |
Vallejo, CA
Municipal Park |
Death |
Victim swinging on soccer goal when
it fell on him. He died as a result of
internal injuries to his spleen, lungs, and liver.
|
#3
831019DAL4010
10/02/83
** |
4 year old male |
Fort Bliss, TX
Military Base
Sports Field |
Death |
Victim was fatally struck on the
head by a goal post while other children were climbing on it, causing it to tip over. |
#4
891006CBB1004
10/28/85
** |
20 year old male |
Keene, NH
College Soccer Field |
Death
|
Victim died from massive head trauma when he pulled a goal post down
on himself while attempting to do chin-ups.
|
#5
891117CCC3060
10/13/86
* |
9 year old male |
Loveland, CO
City Park |
Death
|
Soccer goal post tipped over and
fatally struck victim on the head when it was being moved after a game.
|
#6
891117CCC3061
05/16/87
** |
7 year old female |
Pullman, WA
Municipal Park |
Death |
An adult hanging from the crossbar,
caused the goal post to tip onto the victim, causing her death.
|
#7
891117CCC1062
09/14/88
** |
10 year old male |
Virginia Beach, VA
School Sports Field |
Death |
Victim was killed when the goal
post, on which he was climbing, fell over and hit him on the head.
|
#8
920113CCC3173
05/09/89
* |
5 year old male |
San Antonio, TX
Municipal Park |
Death |
Crossbar of soccer goal fell on
victim causing craniocerebral injuries and death.
|
#9
891006CAA1003
05/25/89
** |
16 year old male |
Bolton, MA
School Soccer Field |
Death |
The victim was struck on the head
by a steel header of a soccer goal post while he and two friends climbed and played on it. The accident was fatal. |
#10
891006CAA1005
09/27/89
* |
7 year old male |
Plastow, NH School Playground |
Death |
The victim was struck and killed by
a goal post tipped over by a fellow schoolmate lifting the rear of the frame. |
#11
910806CCC1669
09/30/89
*** |
19 year old male |
Binghampton, NY
School Soccer Field |
Serious Injury |
Goalie had soccer goal blown on top
of her by a gust of wind. She suffered stress
fractures to both legs. |
#12
891023CWE5006
10/14/89
* |
3 year old male |
Orinda, CA
Local Sports Field |
Death |
While attempting to remove a net
from its goal post, the victim's father lifted the back base causing the goal post to tip
over and strike the victim on the head, causing a fatal injury. |
#13
910719CCC1621
06/02/90
** |
8 year old male |
Fayetteville, NC
Municipal Field |
Death |
Victim was fatally injured when the
portable soccer goal he was climbing tipped over and struck him in the head.
|
#14
920630CCC1475
10/08/90
?* |
9 year old male |
Wilburham, MA
Municipal Field |
Serious Injury |
A young boy broke his femur when a
portable goal fell on him.
|
#15
910729CCC1641
11/06/90
*** |
9 year old male |
Lakewood, NJ
Public Soccer Field |
Death |
Victim was fatally injured when
standing next to a soccer goal that was toppled over by a strong gust of wind.
|
#16
901204CWE5003
11/10/90
** |
22 year old male |
McFarland, CA
Public Park |
Death |
While doing chin-ups, goal post top
bar became loose and fell onto victim's head causing his death.
|
#17
910509HCC1242
04/20/91
* |
8 year old male |
Aiken, SC
Public Park & Fields |
Death |
Victim was struck and killed by a
soccer goal that was being set up for a game.
|
#18
910528CEP9002
05/15/91
** |
11 year old male |
Rockingham, NC
Municipal Park |
Serious Injury |
While swinging on goal, it fell on
top of the victim causing severe internal injuries and subsequent removal of part of her
liver.
|
#19
921130CWE4018
07/18/92
** |
5 year old male |
Mililani, HI
School Field |
Serious Injury |
Group of children playing and
climbing on a soccer goal, tipped it onto the child sitting nearby, breaking his femur.
|
#20
930104CWE5004
08/05/90
* |
5 year old female |
Ephrata, WA
Municipal Park |
Death |
Attempting to lift a mobile soccer
goal, it fell and struck victim on the head, killing her.
|
#21
920910CCC3621
09/15/89
** |
9 year old male |
Santa Rosa, CA
Municipal Park & Field |
Serious Injury |
Victim sustained a fractured pelvis
when other children pushed a metal soccer goal onto him.
|
#22
921030CCC3039
09/07/89
** |
9 year old female |
Guerneville, CA
Municipal Park |
Serious Injury |
Victim was sitting on the soccer
goal structure, when it toppled and fell, fracturing her right forearm.
|
#23
930917CCN2507
09/23/91
**
|
10 year old male |
Kennesaw, GA
Private Soccer
Field |
Serious Injury |
The victim was playing goalie
during a practice game, when some other children ran into the net, pulling the goal over and on top of the victim. The victim suffered a fractured skull and facial
injuries.
|
#24
930505CCN1550
02/09/92
**
|
15 year old male
|
Columbus, GA
Public School Field |
Serious Injury |
The victim was doing chin-ups on
the cross bar attempting to flip over the goal, when the goal tipped over and landed on
the left side of victim's head causing injuries. The
victim has fully recovered.
|
#25
930405CCN1307
03/19/93
** |
12 year old male |
Warner Robbins, GA
School Field
|
Serious Injury |
The victim has permanent brain
damage due to a soccer goal falling onto him when other children ran against the net
pushing the goal on top of him. |
#26
930608CCN1816
06/06/93
*** |
9 year old male |
Atlanta, GA
Municipal Recreation Area |
Death |
The deceased and a friend were
shooting soccer goals when the goal tipped over and onto the victim's chest pinning him to
the ground. |
#27
931027CAA3053
09/04/93
** |
10 year old male |
Humble, TX
Private Park
|
Death |
The boy and his two friends were playing around the goal when the boy's foot became caught in the
netting, toppling the goal onto the boy killing him. |
#28
940418CCC3433
04/00/81
**
|
11 year old male |
Burnsville, MN
Municipal
Park |
Serious Injury |
The boy and his friend were using
the soccer goal for a football goal post and the victim, in an attempt to tackle his
friend who was hanging from the vertical cross beam, caused the goal to fall onto him,
causing a head injury.
|
#29
940607CAA2525
10/04/88
* |
11 year old male |
Bay City, MI
Intermediate School Field |
Serious Injury |
The accident occurred on a dare
when two boys and two girls tried to lift the 320 lb goal, tipping it over onto the victim
causing head, leg and hip injuries. |
#30
940425CEP9001
04/09/94
?** |
8 year old female |
Haverford, PA
Municipal
Park |
Serious Injury |
The victim sustained an injury to
her abdomen when a goal she was hanging on fell on her.
|
#31
940411CWE4006
03/1/94
**
|
15 year old male |
Phoenix, AZ
Moon Valley High School Field |
Serious Injury |
A track team member was swinging
from the crossbar of a 400 lb metal soccer goal, when the crossbar came loose and was
about to strike the coach beneath it; the
victim broke his arm trying to stop the incident and the goal pinned him to the ground. |
#32
940525CAA3492
09/12/93
**
|
5 year old female |
Woodenville, WA
Lake Sammammish State Park |
Serious Injury |
Someone climbing on the net of the
goal caused the top bar to fall onto the victim breaking her tibia. |
#33
940613CAA3542
11/27/90
**
|
10 year old male
|
Phoenix, AZ
Public School Playing Field |
Serious Injury |
Four boys were playing around the
soccer goal; two were hanging from the crossbar (24' section) causing it to tip over onto
the victim, striking him in the head causing brain damage.
|
#34
940614CEP9001
06/01/94
**
|
8 year old male |
Tucson, AZ
Municipal
Park |
Serious Injury |
The victim sustained a fractured
right forearm, when the goal he was swinging
from tipped over and the crossbar struck him.
|
#35
940928CAA1888
9/21/94
**
|
7 year old female |
Frederick, MD
Whittier Soccer Field |
Serious Injury
|
Another child was hanging or
climbing the soccer goal crossbar, when the goal tipped over, the victim, who was in front
of the goal was struck on the face, suffering bruises and contusions. The victim was treated and released at a local
hospital. |
#36
940928CAA1889
9/4/94
* |
8 year old male |
Sebring, FL
Mary Holland Park |
Death |
The victim sustained a fatal head
injury, when he and other children were moving a soccer goal, end over end, in preparation
for a game.
|
#37
941005CAA2001
10/3/94
** |
12
year old male |
Waterford Township, MI
Municipal Park & Fields |
Death |
The victim and two friends were
playing soccer on an auxiliary field. The
victim climbed to the top crossbar and then, from the center of the bar, asked his friends
to push the goal forward so he could jump off. His
foot became caught and he was crushed at the head and chest by the heavy goal, when it
toppled onto him. |
#38
941129CAA3121
8/14/93
*** |
14 year old male |
Midland, TX
Municipal
Park |
Death |
Soccer goal over-turned in late
afternoon (4:15pm) trapping the victim underneath. Victim died from thoracic injuries. |
#39
950125CAA1283
10/08/94
** |
12 year old male |
Burlington, NC
Municipal Park |
Serious Injury |
The victim rode his bike under the
soccer goal and grabbed the crossbar, tipping the goal over and hitting the victim in back of the neck and lacerating his
trachea. Surgery and hospitalization were
required.
|
#40
950202CAA3312
5/25/93
** |
7 year old male |
Salt Lake City, UT
Cottonwood Jr. H.S. Field |
Serious Injury |
Movable soccer goal was tipped over
onto the child causing a broken jaw, teeth and facial injuries.
|
#41
950314CAA3476
8/19/94
** |
9 year old male |
Cleveland, OK
Elementary School Playground
|
Serious Injury |
Victim was sitting under an
unanchored soccer goal, when another child climbed on the goal causing it to topple onto
the victim breaking his thigh bone.
|
#42
950329CEP9001
3/13/95
** |
13 year old male |
Tucson, AZ
School Playground
|
Serious Injury |
Victim sustained a concussion and laceration to
the back of his head, when a soccer goal, which children were swinging on fell over and
struck him from behind. |
#43
950620CCC1807
11/13/88
** |
13 year old male |
Newark, NJ
Municipal Park near St. Benedict's School |
Serious Injury |
The boy was chinning himself on the
crossbar of the goal [doing a pull-up]. When
the goal began to tip over and he let go and fell. The
goal came down on his side fracturing 2 ribs and damaging
his spleen and liver. He was hospitalized. |
#44
960131CAA3348
9/23/93
*** |
13 year old male |
Red Bluff, CA
Public School Playground |
Serious Injury |
The victim was playing in the area
of the goal when it tipped over and struck him from behind, breaking his neck and causing
paralysis. |
#45
960522CBB5185
8/27/95
*** |
31 year old male |
Athens, TN
Athens Regional Park |
Death |
The victim was playing soccer and
somehow he pulled the crossbar onto his abdomen. He
died from liver damage and internal hemorrhage.
|
#46
960403CEP9005
3/27/96
*
|
15 year old female |
Pittsburg, PA
High School Soccer Field
|
Serious Injury |
The victim was moving a mobile
soccer goal from the baseball field after practice, when the goal fell onto the her foot. She was treated and released at a local hospital. |
#47
960611CAA5242
5/28/96
* |
13 year old
male |
Houston, TX
Public Park
|
Serious Injury |
The victim was helping to hang the
net on the mobile goal. It was not anchored
and the goal toppled onto the victim causing both external and internal injuries. The victim was admitted to the hospital. |
#48
960614CAA5253
3/30/94
** |
16 year old female |
Yakima, WA East Valley HS
Playing Field
|
Serious Injury |
The victim was playing goalie, she
took off her petty-jersey and hung it on the crossbar of the goal. When she went to retrieve it, she pulled the goal
over onto her, striking her in the head. |
#49
960821CAA5542
5/31/92
* |
9 year old male |
Oak Park, IL
Public Park |
Serious Injury |
The victim and his sister were
righting a mobile soccer goal, which weighed over 200 lbs, when it toppled and struck the
victim. |
#50
960823CAA5552
04/15/93
** |
12 year old male |
Columbia, SC
Public Elementary School |
Serious Injury |
The victim and playmates were
trying to dunk a basketball over the crossbar of the unanchored steel soccer goal, when it
toppled onto the victims chest. The victim was
hospitalized for 6 days and has suffered permanent injuries.
|
#51
960927HEP0721
9/24/96
*** |
7 year old male |
Greencastle, PA
Public Recreation
Facility |
Serious Injury |
A soccer goal toppled onto the
victim when another child ran into the net. The
victim was cut in the forehead by the crossbar and received stitches at a local hospital
and was released. |
#52
961002HEP9020
9/12/96
** |
7 year old male |
Elon College, NC
Municipal Sports Field |
Serious Injury |
A soccer goal toppled onto the
victim, causing injury to his chest and ribs, when
he was hanging from the crossbar during a game. The
victim's mother said if the goal had been anchored properly the incident wouldn't have
happened. |
#53
961125HEP9003
11/20/96
*
|
9 year old male |
Cathey's Valley, CA
Public Field |
Serious Injury |
The victim fractured his elbow when
the mobile soccer goal he and some teammates were moving in preparation for a game fell on him. |
#54
970716CCC1371
6/15/97
?*** |
6 year old male |
Wallaceburg, CANADA |
Death |
Tip-over of a home made, unanchored
soccer goal caused the death of this 6 year old male. |
#55
980518CAA5568
10/7/97
** |
7 year old male |
Private School Field
Stockbridge, GA |
Injury |
The victim sustained minor head
injuries when classmates pulled the metal goal over and on to him. There were no anchoring devices. |
#56
971125CCC1698
4/29/97
?** |
9 year old male |
Municipal Park Joliette, Montreal, CANADA |
Serious Injury |
The victim sustained serious head
trauma and permanent physical and mental incapacity after a 100 Kilogram soccer, fell on
him. He was hanging from the crossbar. Anchors and a chain had been removed by vandals
prior to the incident. |
#57
971125CCC1699
3/1/97
?*** |
11 year old male |
Indoor Sports Arena
Riviore des Prairies
CANADA |
Serious Injury |
The victim - a soccer goalie - was
struck by a falling goal, suffering severe head trauma and residual brain injury. |
#58
980513CCN0279
5/8/98
* |
10 year old male |
Champion City Park, Oconomowoc, WI |
Serious Injury |
The victim was standing in front of
a goal being moved by pushing by his team mates. The
goal toppled onto the victim severing his spine. He
is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak. |
#59
980902CEP9001
8/27/98
*** |
22 year old male |
Bellvue, WA
Municipal Park |
Death |
Goal post fell onto victims head
causing massive head injury and death. |
#60
981019CEP9001
10/01/98
** |
10 year old male |
Chillicothe, OH
City Park |
Serious Facial Injury |
This 'homemade' soccer goal was
being hung on by the victim and 2 friends. The
goal was not anchored. When the friends ran
away as the goal began to fall, it struck the victim in the face and hand. Victim suffered a broken jaw. |
#61
970403CEP9054
3/27/97
*** |
8 year old female |
Dublin, OH
School Playing Field |
Serious Head Injury |
The victim was playing goalie on
the soccer team when a strong wind blew the unanchored goal post onto here head and then
into the ground causing a serious concussion and hospitalization. |
#62
981013HWE5008
9/24/98
* |
11 year old male |
Sacremento, CA
Public School Playing Field |
Serious Head Injury |
The victim was hit on the head by
the metal soccer goal while other team members were moving it on the field. The goal was not anchored prior to its being moved. The victim was treated and admitted to the
hospital. |
#63
980601CBB3845
1/31/97
*** |
26 year old male |
Carson, CA
Public Sports & Recreation Park |
Serious Facial Injury |
The victim was playing goalie on
the soccer team when his hand hit the top bar in a save attempt. The bar fell striking him on the face breaking his
nose. The goal was not anchored nor was the
crossbar fastened securely. |
#64
981022CAA2027
9/30/98
** |
9 year old male |
Deerfield, IL
City Park |
Serious Facial Injury |
The victim was doing pull-ups on
the crossbar when it came loose the struck him in the face and mouth. The goal wasn't anchored, yet labels were on the
Kwik Goal to "secure/anchor/do not climb" goals. |
#65
990608HEP2401
6/4/99
** |
8 year old male |
Pigeon, MI Public Park |
Death |
The victim and some other children
where hanging from crossbar, when goal tipped over crushing victims head. |
#66
991118CCC2072
9/1/92
*** |
11 year old male
|
Bardstown, KY
Public elementary school field |
Serious head injury |
A home made goal toppled onto the
victim while practicing soccer with some teammates. |
#67
000707CEP9001
12/05/99
** |
7 year old female |
Tucson, AZ
Himmel Public Park |
Serious Injury |
Three girls were playing around a
metal soccer goal which was not set up, in an attempt to raise the posts, the 7 year old
was left hanging from the crossbar, when she let go and fell to the ground she broke her
left wrist. |
#68
000711CEP9011
5/20/00
*** |
10 year old male |
Greensboro, NC
Public soccer field |
Serious head injury |
During a soccer match, the victim
left the field and went to an area near an unused soccer goal, which toppled over and
struck him in the back of the head. The victim
was treated and released at a local hospital. |
#69
001026CAA2053
4/14/99
*** |
14 year old female |
Midland, MI
School soccer field |
Serious Injury |
The victim had very serious leg and
hip fractures when the wind blew the unsecured or inadequately secured soccer goal on top
of her. |
#70
001102CAA2074
3/17/00
**
|
9 year old male |
Fort Madison, IO
Elementary School Field |
Serious facial injury |
The victim was standing near the
inadequately anchored soccer when other children played on it and hung from it, the anchor
did not prevent the ‘homemade’ steel goal from fall to the ground and striking
the victim in the head and face, shattering his teeth. |
#71
001127CAA2110
10/5/00
*** |
17 year old male |
Chicago, IL
Brother Rice H.S. Soccer Field |
Head injury |
The victim was playing goalie on
the soccer team when a gust of wind blew the unanchored soccer goal off the ground, the
crossbar struck the victim in the forehead. He
was treated and released. |
#72
000711CEP9012
3/25/00
** |
8 year old female |
Coatesville, PA
Elementrary Public School Field |
Arm and elbow injury |
During a schedule soccer practice
the victim was climbing a soccer goal and sliding down, when she suffered contusions and
abrasions to her elbow. She was treated and
released at a local hospital.
|
#73
010130CCC3153
8/20/98
*** |
33 year old male |
Albuquerque, NM
High School Field |
Serious neck and shoulder injuries |
While walking to his car, during
his daughter’s soccer match, a mobile style goal fell over striking and pinning the
victim beneath it, injuring his neck and shoulder. |
#74
011017CAA3024
10/5/01
** |
9 year old female |
Nampa, ID
Public Park |
Serious facial injuries |
While playing on and around an
unanchored mobile soccer goal, the victim and 3 friends toppled the heavy goal onto the
victim, striking her in the face, breaking her nose and requiring facial surgery. |
#75
021001CAA1001
9/30/02
* |
17 year old male |
Charles County, MD
Public School |
Death |
The victim and some classmates
where moving a large heavy soccer goal; to set it up right when it fell, striking the
victim on the head, killing him. |
#76
031003HCN0003
10/01/03
|
6 year old male |
Vernon Hills, IL
Public Park |
Death |
Goalie was playing soccer practice and either he knocked goal onto himself or
wind blew goal over and onto him, goal was NOT anchored. |
