Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The Little League World Series will continue to use single beds placed on the floor following a serious injury to a young boy last year who fell out of his bunk bed and hit his head.
Easton Oliverson, a 12-year-old playing for the Snow Canyon Little League team out of Santa Clara, Utah, suffered a fractured skull last August after falling off the top bunk while sleeping at the Williamsport, Pennsylvania, dormitory complex.
Players warm up before the Little League World Series Championship game between the West Region team from Honolulu and the Caribbean Region team from Willemstad, Curacao, at the Little League International Complex on Aug.
28, 2022 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. (Joshua Bessex/Getty Images) "Out of an abundance of caution, we placed all beds individually on the floor during last year’s World Series, and in preparation for the 2023 Little League International Tournament, Little League decided to provide its participants with single, one-level beds for all of their player housing at each of its tournament locations, including those in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where the dormitories can accommodate all 14 single beds," Little League International said Monday in a statement. A'S' PITCHER SHOWS LACK OF EFFORT, ALLOWS INFIELD SINGLE AS TEAM'S MISERABLE SEASON CONTINUES Easton’s parents, Jace and Nancy Oliverson, filed a negligence lawsuit in September against the league and the company that made the bed, saying there was no railing on the top bunk.