Wednesday, May 6, 2015

HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE USA TREATED SOME 24,400 TREADMILL RELATED INJURIES LAST YEAR: SURVEYMONKEY CEO DIED OF HEAD TRAUMA IN EXERCISE ACCIDENT. HE SLIPPED ON THE TREADMILL AND HIT THE MACHINE.




MAY 4, 2015

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (AP)

SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg died of severe head trauma in an exercise accident in the Mexican resort town of Punta Mita, a Mexican state official said Monday.

Goldberg, husband of Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, was found lying next to a treadmill on Friday at a resort in Punta Mita near Puerto Vallarta on Mexico's Pacific coast.

The official said he left his room at about 4 p.m. to exercise, and family members went to look for him after he didn't return. He was found at about 6:30 p.m. in a gymnasium lying by a treadmill in a pool of blood, with a blow to the lower back of his head. He apparently had slipped on the treadmill and hit the machine, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak to the press.

The official said Goldberg still had vital signs when he was discovered, but later died at a hospital in Nuevo Vallarta. The official said the cause of death was severe head trauma and hypovolemic shock, or bleeding.

The official said the accident took place at the Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita and that the family had checked in on April 30.

But the Four Seasons issued a statement saying the incident did not happen on any of its properties and that David Goldberg was not registered as a guest in any of the rooms, villas or residences.

Serious injuries involving exercise equipment, treadmills in particular, are among the most common that emergency rooms see, according to data collected by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Hospital emergency departments across the USA treated some 24,400 treadmill related injuries last year, said CPSC spokeswoman Kim Dulic.

The agency counted 30 reported deaths associated with treadmills from 2003 to 2012.

Almost 460,000 people were sent to the hospital in 2012 for injuries related to exercise equipment, according to the agency's data. The vast majority—nearly 428,000 were treated and released for their injuries—but about 32,000 were hospitalized or were dead on arrival.

Treadmill injuries included broken bones, abrasions, rectal bleeding and people developing chest pain while working out on the machines, according to a review of the CPSC data base system.

The death of SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg, who authorities says suffered severe head trauma after slipping from a treadmill, comes nearly six years after the 4-year-old daughter of former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson died in a treadmill accident at her home in Phoenix Ariz. 

She had been strangled by a cord connected to the machine.