New York Daily News

PAIN, NO GAIN

Woman’s suit: I was ‘impaled’ on SoulCycle

- BY STEPHEN REX BROWN Donna Wood says when she dismounted SoulCycle, she accidental­ly dug her upper thigh into the bar holding resistance weights on the back of bike. sbrown@nydailynew­s.com

A NEW YORK woman’s SoulCycle class really spun out of control after she “essentiall­y” impaled her leg on a sharp piece of the stationary bike in Beverly Hills, Calif., a new lawsuit charges.

Donna Wood, 42, alleges in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday that she was stuck for several agonizing minutes on a metal bar on the bike because her classmates could not hear her screams over blaring music.

The horror allegedly unfolded Jan. 31, 2016, in a SoulCycle class on Wilshire Blvd. When the class concluded, Wood dismounted — but the tortuous workout was far from over. She accidental­ly dug her upper thigh into the bar holding resistance weights on the back of the bike, according to the suit.

“Her weight shifted, and caused the support bar/beam for the saddle bar/weight bar to cut even more deeply into the flesh of her upper thigh, essentiall­y impaling Donna Wood’s right leg,” papers read.

Her cries for help went unheeded, papers claim.

“Though (Wood) screamed for assistance, because the class was in cool-down mode and music was still playing loudly and the room still dark, she was not heard or seen for several minutes,” the suit says.

Astonishin­gly, SoulCycle staff did not call an ambulance or offer any further assistance after she was “dislodged” from the bike, papers claim.

“Bleeding profusely and in severe pain, (Wood) arranged for an Uber cab to transport her to a local hospital,” papers read. She needed 50 stitches at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to close up the gash in her leg. It later became severely infected, papers claim.

The suit charges SoulCycle, which is based in New York, of negligence by using unsafe stationary bikes.

Wood seeks damages to be determined at trial.

Messages left with SoulCycle press reps were not returned.

Earlier this year, a SoulCycle regular in California died of meningitis.

Sevin Philips, a 48-year-old relationsh­ip therapist from San Rafael, died of an infection on Jan. 7, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

A SoulCycle spokeswoma­n insisted Philips didn’t contract meningitis at the trendy indoor cycling chain.

SoulCycle has been the subject of lawsuits charging wage and labor violations.

 ??  ?? Model Miranda Kerr (center and inset as kitty) takes a selfie with pals at the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange as Snapchat celebrates its IPO on Thursday. The stock opened at $24 per share, beating expectatio­ns, and closed at $24.48
Model Miranda Kerr (center and inset as kitty) takes a selfie with pals at the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange as Snapchat celebrates its IPO on Thursday. The stock opened at $24 per share, beating expectatio­ns, and closed at $24.48
 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States