Twitch streamer and porn star Adriana Chechik will have to have a rod inserted into her back after breaking it in two places when she jumped into a concrete pit filled with foam cubes – a day after another woman was injured at the same spot.
Chechik, who has 803,000 followers on the streaming platform, was celebrating a win in a foam pugil stick duel when she jumped into the pit at a Lenovo Legion booth at the TwitchCon event at the San Diego Convention Center over the weekend.
Footage showed Chechik, 30, battling it out with her opponent on a three-foot high platform above the foam cubes, each trying to knock the other off-balance.
Within seconds, Chechik claimed victory and celebrated with a toe touch before landing in the pit and being unable to get up as panicked onlookers are heard shouting that she landed on her tailbone.
Chechik later posted a photo of herself in a hospital gown late Sunday night with the caption, ‘I live here now.’ She has to undergo surgery to get a rod inserted in her back.
In a series of tweets, she attacked Lenovo Legion for keeping the booth open after another participant said they were injured the previous day.
Porn star Adriana Chechik has to get a rod inserted into her back after she broke it while jumping onto concrete covered by foam cubes
Chechik (right) is seen with her competitor minutes before she broke her back after slamming into the foam pit. The influencer was participating in the risky activity hosted by Lenovo Legion
Footage showed Chechik and her opponent battling it out with foam pugil sticks on a three-foot platform
Chechik cheered toward the crowd in front of her while her opponent laid defeated. The adult star cheered and prepared to perform a toe touch
Chechik is seen mid-air as she cheers for her victory
Within seconds, Chechik can be seen landing the fall on her tailbone
Chechik struggled to get up while others rushed to call the medic. She was seen crunched over in pain
Chechik later posted a photo of herself glammed up in a hospital gown on late Sunday night
Video captured the moment Chechik landed and struggled to move.
‘You good?’ a man can be heard asking.
‘I can’t get up,’ Chechik responded as a crowed stared at her from all around.
Multiple people rushed to her care as she struggled to move.
‘No, no she’s fine,’ a female announcer was heard joking in the background unaware of the severity of Chechik’s injuries.
‘She landed on her tailbone,’ another man can be heard telling the medic.
In a string of Tweets, the influencer called out the booth’s operator Lenovo Legion for their ‘carelessness’ in allowing for the foam pit to remain open after one person previously claimed to be injured.
‘Why did @LenovoLegion say here, you can dive in?’ she wrote while attaching a video from the company with the two booth announcers describing the fight between two men.
‘They put the pit up a second day after the 1st person injured their foot and ankle bad enough to leave #twitchcon in a brace. Multiple ppl were injured and they kept the pit open, said jump in the booty first.’
Participants were required to sign a waiver before participating in the activity.
Lenovo Legion didn’t immediately respond to DailyMail.com for a comment.
Chechik recalled the moments she remained still as the medics rushed to get her out of the foam pit.
‘Special shout out to the random off-work EMT who got the workers at the booth to realize how bad I was injured and to make them keep me still and calm me down until others got there. U rly kept me from crying badly.’
She later added, ‘Last night was horrible, the pain I had felt like I’d rather die. This is gonna suck.’
‘I broke my bad in two places and am getting surgery to put a meter rod in for support today. Send your support. When it rains it pours and I am definitely feeling the rain right now.’
Chechik has been very outspoken about her injuries on Twitter and slammed Lenovo Legion for continuing the risky actively despite another person being previously injured the day before
Another streamer, dubbed LochVaness, was also injured at Lenovo’s booth on Saturday.
The streamer posted a video of herself in the same foam booth battling her opponent before she jumped the pit after winning. Rather than slamming Lenovo, she took a hit at Twitch.
‘I will never be able to trust @Twitch at another convention in my entire life,’ she later wrote on Twitter while sharing a video of how she got her injuries.
‘Here’s how I dislocated my knee and sprained my ankle at their Lenovo Legion booth.’
LochVaness can be seen jumping into the pit and quickly dropping her jaw before the video is cut out.
She was briefly hospitalized before doctors deemed she didn’t break any major bones.
The streamer later posted a picture of her ankle being iced and elevated on Sunday with the caption, ‘This is NOT how I wanted to spend Twitchcon Day 3.’
Another streamer, LochVaness, was also injured at Lenovo’s booth on Saturday
The streamer shared a video of the horrific incident on Twitter. Rather than slamming Lenovo, she took a hit at Twitch
The streamer can be seen leaping into the foam and the moment her jaw dropped from her injury
LochVaness spent day three of the convention laying down with her sprained foot iced
Many were outraged after the two incidents occurred at the weekend convention, especially after Twitch failed to shut down Lenovo’s booth after LochVaness’s injury.
‘Holy sh** waiver or not, that’s irresponsible as shit to not have proper protection on the floor,’ one person wrote on Twitter.
‘Terribly upsetting,’ another wrote. ‘I hope they all make a healthy recovery.’
‘The pit is an act of negligence, full stop. Foam blocks on concrete? They’re lucky someone didn’t fall head first,’ another said.
One person said they suffered minor injuries from the pit.
‘Can confirm the pit was a bit shallow – I hit my knee pretty hard but not seriously the first time that I got knocked off of a podium,’ one person wrote. ‘Saw a lot of people purposely dive into the foam pit which was particularly concerning.’
Twitch didn’t immediately respond to DailyMail.com for a comment.
The injury happened at TwitchCon in San Diego. Pictured: Twitch DEO and Co-founder Emmett Shear on October 7
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