12-åring dog i smithmaskin (USA)

[thomast]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...ck=1&cset=true

"Relatives find the 12-year-old pinned under the equipment, his air supply cut off.

By Susana Enriquez, Times Staff Writer


Elijah Brown wanted to be a pro football player, so the 12-year-old would lift weights every so often to bulk up his 5-foot-3, 130-pound body.

On Thursday, after playing catch with his grandfather and uncle, Elijah went into the garage of his Huntington Beach home to lift about 5 p.m. When the men checked on him 10 minutes later, they found Elijah with a 185-pound barbell pinning him to the bench, police said.

The men lifted the weight from the boy and performed CPR until paramedics came, but Elijah died at Huntington Beach Hospital at 5:41 p.m. The barbell had cut off his air supply, the coroner said.

"This wasn't supposed to happen to him," said Thomas Brown, Elijah's father, his eyes welling up with tears as he stood outside a neighbor's house. "He had a really bright future ahead of him."

Brown, who said he allowed Elijah to lift weights periodically, said his son mostly used dumbbells or the 45-pound barbell, without adding weight to it.

The Smith Machine that Elijah used has a mechanism that keeps the bar balanced between two metal poles with a safety latch that can be engaged at different heights.

"He knew how to do it by himself," Brown said, adding that he had stressed the importance of having a spotter in case he couldn't handle the weight. "It was a freak accident."

The father, 32, described Elijah as a fun-loving boy and straight-A student who was active in sports and at church.

He had studied karate since he was 3 and earned his brown belt a couple of months ago, he said.

Elijah had also played football with the Huntington Beach Dolphins, an Orange County junior all-American football team, since the age of 6, Brown said.

"His dream was to go on to play professional football and play for the Denver Broncos," Brown said.

Elijah wore the number 33 on his football jersey, the number of his favorite player, retired Bronco running back Terrell Davis.

"There's no one he wanted to be more like than his father and Terrell Davis," said Dallas Kruse, the family's pastor, who was also Elijah's private running coach.

The seventh-grader at Bethany Christian Academy in Westminster had just received an award Tuesday for excellence in math, his father said.

Elijah also enjoyed fishing, snowboarding and playing his keyboard and drums.

On Friday, family and friends gathered at the Browns' single-story house at the end of a cul-de-sac. They prayed and kept a vigil, Kruse said.

"Elijah was just an amazing child," he said, adding that he hoped the accident would teach other kids to be careful with weights.

Elijah is also survived by his mother, Lisanne, 38, 7-year-old sister and 21-year-old stepsister."

[mangemani]

ja,gymmet är alltid en risk,sätter man sin fot där så är det ens eget ansvar att ta sej därifrån med hälsan i behåll.
men visst är det tragiskt när det händer.

[keffat_liv]

r.i.p

[Mental]

Ursprungligen postat av mangemani

ja,gymmet är alltid en risk,sätter man sin fot där så är det ens eget ansvar att ta sej därifrån med hälsan i behåll.
men visst är det tragiskt när det händer.

käns onekligen tungt att lägga det ansvaret på en 12åring dock...

[viktor88]

R.I.P

är väll derför det fins en åldersgräns i sverge

[norsk_gadd]

Ursprungligen postat av viktor88

är väll derför det fins en åldersgräns i sverge

VA!? Vad yrar du om?

[mangemani]

Ursprungligen postat av Mental

käns onekligen tungt att lägga det ansvaret på en 12åring dock...

utveckla tack

[viktor88]

Ursprungligen postat av norsk_gadd

VA!? Vad yrar du om?

12-åring dog i smithmaskin

[olwe]

Ursprungligen postat av viktor88

R.I.P

är väll derför det fins en åldersgräns i sverge

Är inte det bara de enskillda gymmen som sätter åldersgränser? Finns det nått allmänt och lagstadgat?

[viktor88]

men dom har nog åldersgräns överallt.

[viktor88]

Ursprungligen postat av olwe

Är inte det bara de enskillda gymmen som sätter åldersgränser? Finns det nått allmänt och lagstadgat?

aha kanske det är. dom jag vart på är det 16års gräns.

[thomast]

Smithmaskinen stod i deras garage, inte i något gym.

[norsk_gadd]

Dessutom tror jag inte misstaget bara berodde på hans ålder, hur många här på sidan har inte fastnat i en bänkpress någon gång i livet?

[Zozza]

Ursprungligen postat av mangemani

utveckla tack

Den här tråden passar inte för skämt. Spela inte dum nu.

[MilkmaN]

Fan vad illa, stackars pojke.