Woman sues Dao House near Estes Park after balcony fall

A Broomfield girl is suing a lodge close to Estes Park after she bought locked out and caught on a balcony and needed to bounce off to flee, breaking her ribs, neck and again, based on court docket information.

Diana Gathright, 60, was staying at Dao House on April 6, 2023, when she went out onto her balcony to stargaze and the door locked behind her, based on a criticism filed in Larimer County District Court docket on Thursday.

Gathright was the one particular person staying on the lodge on the time. Dao Home workers keep in a unique constructing and there’s no cellphone service on the facility, attorneys with Denver agency Cheney Galluzi & Howard wrote within the lawsuit.

Gathright was on the balcony for 3 hours in single-digit temperatures and tried to interrupt the window to her room with balcony furnishings earlier than she determined to decrease herself to the bottom to flee. She landed on a snow-covered log which broke a number of bones, lacerated her liver and collapsed one in all her lungs.

A number of different individuals had beforehand gotten locked out on the balcony, the lawsuit claims, and the lodge homeowners ought to have identified the automated locking doorways created harmful situations.

Failing to guard their visitor is “a breach of (the lodge’s) duties to train cheap care to guard in opposition to risks of which they knew or ought to have identified,” Gathright’s attorneys wrote.

Gathright was completely injured by the autumn and nonetheless experiences ache, based on the criticism.