I had been telling our fiance that both of us put the air vent in the spare room in an area where there was nothing beneath it.
She did not worry about it, because the air vent was behind the bed.
I don’t recognize she realized our child was getting older, and she consistently had friends up in that bedroom. She had closed the air vent off because of its location, so there was no heat or air conditioning flowing through it. She thought that was our concern. My concern was that if someone stepped on the air vent, it could cut free and someone would be damaged. I told him both of us needed to get a company to repair that area or pulled up the carpet and put a piece of wood over it. She didn’t like either idea. My next suggestion was that both of us call the HVAC company and see if they could help. She said that both suggestions would cost money and she would fix it when she got the time. My thought was that it would never get repaired. I was going to go to the house repair store the next day, but that never happened. My child had her associate over that night. She walked to the other side of the bed and stepped on the air vent. When the air vent broke free, her leg fell into the hole and was stuck. Her ankle was broken, and they needed to take her into emergency surgery. I didn’t recognize how I was going to tell her mother about the air vent and how her child got damaged.