Claim Case Study Baseball Diamond Maintenance

A woman was enjoying her son's baseball game at a municipally owned and operated baseball field. She was sitting behind the backstop in her lawn chair when a wild pitch was thrown and the catcher missed it. The ball struck the ground behind the catcher and scooted through a hole in the backstop fencing. The woman had turned her head to chat with a fellow spectator when she was hit by the ball. The blow shattered the woman's occipital bone in her face. She required surgery to repair the bone as well as the insertion of a metal plate.