Pacific Northwest mom dies in bizarre accident after falling from treadmill at LA Fitness

A mother of four died in a bizarre accident while exercising on a treadmill at an LA Fitness in Kent, Washington last Friday. 

Delrie Rosario, 36, was used to working out almost every day with her sister at their local LA Fitness gym. However, on that unfortunate day, Rosario missed a step, fell and hit her head on the treadmill, leading to her death. 

“She tried to slow the machine down. I thought maybe she just missed a step. She just collapsed, [and] hit her head on the machine,” her sister, Marissa Woods, said. 

“I was screaming, you know, ‘Anybody, just please help! Anybody know how to do CPR?” Woods said, adding that “not one worker” from the gym assisted. 

People at the gym stopped their work outs and rushed in to help Rosario after she fell. However, the woman never regained consciousness. She was quickly transported to a local hospital, where she died. 

Rosario worked two jobs to provide for her four children, Delanio, Rickey, Ric’Kae, and Delaiha, according to a GoFundMe page set up by her coworkers to help her children. 

“[She was] a mother first. Always everything she did was for kids. She worked so hard for kids,” said Woods about her sister.

Rosario was a donor, and her heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver have been transferred to multiple people on the organ donor waiting list since her death, Woods said. 

“(She’s) saving lives. How big can your heart be to still be saving lives?” Woods said.

“Just think, somebody’s walking around…with her big heart. They don’t even know what heart they’re about to get,” she added. 

Treadmills are to blame for most of the exercise-related injuries, taking around 16,000 individuals to the emergency room in 2020, the Washington Post reported. However, deaths from treadmills are rare. Between 2003 and 2012, there have been 30 reported deaths associated with treadmills.