Millions watched the short clip that has been circulating on social media since the weekend: Genea Sky falls from a dance pole several meters deep onto the stage in a club in Dallas – and tweaks in shock and hurts even more. It cannot be seen that the young woman broke her jaw, knocked out teeth and sprained an ankle.
The dancer later reports on Instagram in a video and in tears of her injuries. “But I’ll be okay,” she says tormented. Sky’s jaw had to be operated on, and her employer wants to see how much she will pay for the costs – but only after public interest in the fate of the dancer has increased over the past few days.
Insurance? None
In fact, Sky only worked part-time at the Dallas strip club. Therefore, she is not insured through her employer. He does not see the fall from the pole as an accident at work, but takes the view that the dancer must have her «exercises», which no one forces her to do, under control.
Like millions of her countrymen, Sky is unlikely to be privately insured. At least a friend of the dancer continued a go-found-me page that raised money for jaw surgery, hospitalization, and Sky’s loss of earnings.
«Everything negative outshone»
The fall of the dancer had caused plenty of jokes and ridicule on social media. However, some users raised the issue the poor working conditions of adult dancers: «We urgently need to unionize strip clubs. Women like Sky should at least receive compensation for loss of earnings. »
At the beginning of the week, Sky returned to Instagram after her jaw operation: in a hospital bed, with her eyes closed, her jaw wired and her thumb raised. Even if many people made fun of her fall, she writes under the photo, she was also shown a lot of sympathy. «I could never have imagined that so many people would stand behind me in such a situation. That overshadowed everything negative. » So far, over $ 37,000 of the targeted $ 20,000 has been raised on the collection side.
(Gux)
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