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<p>Ryan Furtado bought himself a Peloton in July 2021. Seven months later, he was dead.</p>
<p>The 32-year-old was killed when the high-end interactive stationary bike toppled over and sliced open his carotid artery, leaving the beloved customer success manager to bleed out on the floor of his Downtown Brooklyn home.</p>
<p>That’s <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23940079-furtado">according to a lawsuit filed by Furtado's mother and obtained by The Daily Beast</a>, which reveals the first-known death involving a Peloton bike. In 2021, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/peloton-tread-death.html">6-year-old child died after getting pulled into a Peloton treadmill</a>, something company officials described as a “tragic accident.” Another similar incident involving the now-discontinued Peloton Tread Plus left a 3-year-old with a “significant brain injury,” regulators said, <a href="https://www.saferproducts.gov/PublicSearch/Detail?ReportId=3054628">noting in an incident report</a> that the boy was found with “tread marks on his back matching the slats of the treadmill.” (Peloton was <a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2023/Peloton-Agrees-to-Pay-19-Million-Civil-Penalty-for-Failure-to-Immediately-Report-Tread-Treadmill-Entrapment-Hazards-and-for-Distributing-Recalled-Treadmills">ordered to pay a $19 million fine</a> earlier this year over the treadmill issue.)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mom-says-dangerous-peloton-bike-killed-her-son-ryan-furtado">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Ryan Furtado bought himself a Peloton in July 2021. Seven months later, he was dead.
The 32-year-old was killed when the high-end interactive stationary bike toppled over and sliced open his carotid artery, leaving the beloved customer success manager to bleed out on the floor of his Downtown Brooklyn home.
