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Teams that will stay in the Williamsport complex for the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania are set to sleep in single beds, a year after a boy seriously fractured his head when he fell out of his top bunk.
Little League International made the change after 12-year-old Easton Oliverson, a pitcher and outfielder for the Snow Canyon team out of Santa Clara, Utah, was injured in August 2022.
'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 in a statement shared on Monday.
This year's tournament starts this week and runs from August 16-27.
The Oliverson family had kept Easton's condition continuously updated on social media with photos of the boy — in a wheelchair and wearing baseball T-shirts — posing for pictures with his family and friends until the end of 2022.
Little League Baseball has banned bunk beds from its Williamsport, Pennsylvania, complex
Easton Oliverson, 12, and from Utah, fractured his head while sleeping on a bunk bed last year
Easton was in a medically-induced coma before going under the knife for three brain surgeries
The little boy was hooked onto on a breathing tube while he was staying in intensive care unit
The family later sued the league and the company that made the bed.
The negligence lawsuit, filed by Jace and Nancy Oliverson on last September in Philadelphia, said there was no railing on the top bunk. Little League did not comment on the lawsuit.
A message left on Monday for the Oliveron's lawyer by DailyMail.com was not immediately returned.
Speaking to ABC's 'Good Morning America' in May for the first time since the fall nine months ago, the Oliverson's revealed that Easton not only suffered a fractured skull but also from an epidural hematoma, which occurs when blood accumulates between the skull and the dura matter -- the thick membrane covering the brain.
Surgeons thought Easton had next to no chance of living, but three intensive brain operations
