An Oregon mom has filed a $2.2 million lawsuit against the Red Berry Barn in Sherwood, saying she slipped on a muddy slope at the pumpkin patch’s annual harvest festival — suffering multiple fractures in her leg and ankle.
Paige Jean Smith’s lawsuit says she had accompanied her child onto a raised launch platform for a zipline on Oct. 20, 2024. After her child launched off the platform and started moving down the zipline, Smith was “instructed” or “permitted” to walk down a “dangerously steep, muddy, slippery” and “unsafe” slope, according to the suit.
That’s when she fell and broke her tibia, fibula and ankle in multiple places, requiring surgery, the suit says. The suit also says Smith suffered other injuries, including chronic ankle pain, arthritis and injuries to the soft tissues in her shoulders, spine and back.
Messages seeking comment this week and last from Red Berry Barn and owners Aaron and Erika Wilcott weren’t returned. The Wilcotts say on their website that Erika Wilcott is a sixth-generation farmer and that they are raising their three school-aged children on the farm…