Last Updated 29th July 2025. This guide will explain how to make climbing wall activity personal injury claims. Many people enjoy using outdoor and indoor climbing walls to keep fit and practise rock climbing in a controlled environment. However, a climbing wall accident can happen if an activity centre neglects proper health and safety standards. Therefore, climbers could suffer an injury that was not their fault.

If an accident at a climbing wall has injured you, you may be eligible to claim compensation. If the centre caused the accident by acting negligently, they could be liable to pay damages. To begin your compensation claim, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us today:

• To begin your claim, please call us on 0800 073 8804.
• Contact us online.
• Finally, you can speak to an advisor online, using the live support widget.

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• Climbing Wall Activity Personal Injury Claims Explained
• What Duty Of Care Does The Operator Of A Climbing Wall Have?
• Climbing Wall Activity Personal Injury Claims – How Much Could You Claim?
• Evidence In Climbing Wall Activity Personal Injury Claims
• Climbing Wall Activity Injuries
• How Could A Climbing Wall Activity Accident Happen?
• Get Help From A Personal Injury Claims Lawyer

Climbing Wall Activity Personal Injury Claims Explained

When we enjoy activities such as indoor climbing, the owner of the establishment owes us a duty of care. Therefore the proprietor is responsible for our health and safety as well as ourselves. If you suffer a climbing wall injury because of poor health and safety standards, you may be eligible to make climbing wall activity personal injury claims for compensation.

You could claim compensation for your injuries if:

• Firstly, the climbing wall venue owed you a duty of care. Either as a customer or an employee.
• Secondly, the venue breached the duty of care by neglecting health and safety standards.
• The poor standards of health and safety caused an accident.
• Finally, the accident injured you.

You may be able to claim compensation for rock wall fall injuries that were not your fault. To see if a climbing wall venue owes you compensation, please call us today to speak to an advisor.

What Duty Of Care Does The Operator Of A Climbing Wall Have?

The Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 states that those who control public spaces must employ practical measures to ensure visitors are reasonably safe.

Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, activity centres owe a duty of care to full-time employees, agency workers, and casual staff. That duty involves taking reasonable steps to ensure the health, wellbeing, and safety of employees. Therefore, the venue should carry out regular risk assessments to identify and remove potential safety hazards. If a worker is injured because of negligence, they may be eligible to claim for an accident at work.

Activity Centre Specific Legislation

Specific activity centres have to comply with two pieces of legislation. These are the Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) Act 1995 and the Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004.

The regulations require activity centres to do the following:

• Undergo regular inspections of their premises and safety management systems
• The centre must provide instruction on how to do the activities.
• And the business must have a licence to provide the activity.

Climbing Wall Activity Personal Injury Claims – How Much Could You Claim?

How much you are awarded in a successful personal injury claim may depend on 2 types of damages:

• General damages: The pain and suffering caused by your injuries.
• Special damages: Any financial loss connected to your injuries.

Below you will see a table that has suggested compensation brackets published by the Judicial College Guidelines. Solicitors use this document to help assess general damages because it pairs such brackets with various types of injuries.

Compensation Table

Please note that the first entry isn’t from the JCG, nor is the table a guarantee of compensation.

But the final amount of compensation you receive may vary, depending on the circumstances of your claim. Please feel free to call our helpline for further guidance.

Evidence In Climbing Wall Activity Personal Injury Claims

The evidence in climbing wall activity personal injury claims can include CCTV footage, witness statements, and medical evidence. As well as showing what injuries were sustained, you need to be able to prove that the climbing centre failed in its duty of care to keep you reasonably safe during your visit.

Some more evidence examples for a climbing wall accident claim have been summarised here:

• Copies of scans, test results, and notes from physical examinations can all be used to show the nature and severity of the injuries.
• CCTV of the accident taking place, if available.
• You can also photograph your injuries and the immediate scene. For instance, there may be noticeable disrepair to footholds or harnesses, showing how they might have resulted in you sustaining injuries.
• Other centre attendees could provide a witness statement, so be sure you pass on their up-to-date contact information, with their permission, to the solicitor.

We understand that gathering evidence to prove your claim can seem a little intimidating. That is why our solicitors can support eligible claimants in ensuring that the evidence they are collecting for their indoor rock climbing accident claim is as strong as possible. Get your free eligibility check today by speaking to one of our advisors using the details given below.

Climbing Wall Activity Injuries

You could make climbing wall activity personal injury claims if you were injured because of an accident that was due to a breach in duty of care. Here are some examples of climbing wall injuries you may have experienced:

• Broken bones can happen if you fall off a climbing wall. A broken bone injury can be painful and debilitating. However, they usually heal with the correct treatment.
• Lacerations are deep cuts affecting the skin or the flesh. You may also suffer from severe bruising.
• You can suffer head injuries if you fall and hit your head. Head injuries can be minor, or a traumatic brain injury can be severe.
• Internal injuries include organ damage and internal bleeding. Internal injuries are life-threatening and require immediate medical attention.
• A haemorrhage means bleeding. Internal bleeding can be life-threatening.
• Rotator cuff tears are a type of soft tissue injury. They are tears to the tendons in the shoulders. These shoulder injuries can be painful, especially when you move your shoulder.

How Could A Climbing Wall Activity Accident Happen?

Injuries that are suffered on a climbing wall will not always be caused by negligence. Some are due to accidents that could not be avoided or through climbers not taking proper care of themselves. You can be injured climbing indoors or outdoors if the venue has not upheld proper health and safety standards.

Procedures a climbing wall centre could apply to ensure the safety of service users:

1. A qualified instructor could supervise the climbing activities. Incorrect supervision can lead to climbing wall accidents.
2. Employees should have the correct training for the activities they are instructing on.
3. Instructors should ensure that the participants’ harnesses are fitted correctly to prevent rock wall falls.
4. The venue should inspect its equipment regularly for faults.
5. Climbers should not be able to climb higher than they are supposed to.

Failure to follow the correct health and safety guidance can lead to climbing wall accidents and falls from a height, which can cause back injuries.

Who Could Be At Fault?

An indoor climbing venue could be liable for a climbing wall injury if unsafe conditions caused an accident. For example, the venue may have provided the participant with faulty equipment.

The venue could also be held liable if they provide the climber with incorrect instructions or there is a lack of supervision, which subsequently leads to an error, in which the climber is injured.

To see if you can make climbing wall activity personal injury claims, please contact us today for your free consultation.

Get Help From A Personal Injury Claims Lawyer

If you have legitimate grounds to make climbing wall activity personal injury claims, we can help you. Legal Expert can provide you with a skilled personal injury claims lawyer to manage your claim. What’s more, you can choose to make a No Win No Fee claim.

If you choose to make a No Win No Fee claim, there is no upfront solicitor’s fee to pay. There are also no solicitor fees charged throughout your claim, or if the case is lost. If the claim is won, you will pay a success fee from your compensation, the percentage of which is capped by law.

• To begin your claim, please call us on 0800 073 8804.
• Contact us online.
• Finally, you can also speak to an advisor online, using the live support widget.

Read More About Activity Injury Claims

Please read these guides to learn more about claiming compensation for an activity or sporting injury.

• An NHS guide to broken ankle injuries.
• Health and safety for leisure activities

We have lots more guides on personal injury claims, some of which you can browse below: 

• Find out about holiday compensation claims
• Claiming compensation for a mountain bike injury
• How does the personal injury claim process work?

We hope this guide has been informative on the subject of how to make climbing wall activity personal injury claims.

Guide By Chelache

Edited By Melissa.