Inflatables have been known for some time to have high injury rates:

http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=17809219

Im still going to take my kids to the local indoor bounce house,its the best exercise we get! We practice all safety rules and i never take them when i know its going to be crowded! I always bounce around with my kids to keep an eye on things and i wish more parents would,some of them just become glued to their phone and dont care.

And fireworks-related injuries continue to skyrocket...

Bounce houses are flippen awesome.

(Pun inteaded)

In recent years, free fall injuries\deaths in parks have plummeted.

I wish I could get paid to report these kind of "findings". What a shock that injuries have been going up right along with the increase of bouncehouse's popularity.

I haven't even bothered to actually do the research...but my "finding" is that skateboarders have a greater risk of serious injury than cornhole players...but in one of my seperate "findings"...cornhole related injuries have been on the rise over the last few years.

When I was a kid... "bouncehouses" were known as "moonwalks" and would occasionally show up as a special attraction at the local mall. They've been around for a LONG time... just not in everyone's back yard. :-)

As a side note... when I was a kid, I begged and begged my parents for a trampoline. My cousins had one, and I was in love with it. I never got one.

Then, a star college athlete from our church broke his neck after falling off of one and was paralyzed for life.

As an adult, I am so very grateful that my parents never relented to my begging. There's no way I'd allow my kids (if I had them) to even get on one.

It kinda reminds me of ball pits. You never see those anymore, but they used to be in every ChuckECheese.

Ball pits ended quickly when a mother campaigned nationally to have them shut down after doing bacteriological and viral testing. Most were cesspools of fecal coliform, e. coli and worse, and very rarely thoroughly cleaned.

And fireworks-related injuries continue to skyrocket...

Thats mostly due to people who don't like to pay attention.

I would love me an inflatable house that I can bounce in! Will suck during rain/power outage .

Could use for vaction, my house goes with me and not one of them cheap trailer homes or outragous RV's. Perfect!

Most of the injuries from inflatable are caused from falling onto a hard surface or a strong wind blowing the inflatable away, or worse, up in the air. Sometimes a rip will cause the one to deflate suddenly, and in a design like a slide, that's a far fall.

As long as indoor bounces are inspected, and safety concerns, such as having soft mats about, I don't see them as a great threat. Of course, all,inflatable should be inspected regularly for wear spots, and all outdoor bounces shoud be thoroughly tied down.

I go through my life looking at things and thinking "What can go wrong?" Because if something can possibly go wrong, it will do so around my family.