Tough day. Hope you feel better.

I know my Trick Steps are one of the best investments I have made for mine!

Take a lot of pictures!

I’m feeling better in my back, it’s not as sore. My elbow is still hurting more than anything.
I will be seeing my doctor tomorrow and see if he thinks x-rays will be needed.
Yea, I took a picture when I got the cobwebs out at the ramp of the step laying on the ramp where it broke off. I also have close up from both the step and the plate where it broke off. That’s when I noticed two different broke patters. One that already had rust built up and the shiny part where it had just broken off. So that tells me in was a progressive thing.
I love the step, it’s great but I will make sure my next one will be welded with support brackets and just not welded or tact welded on the sides and not the top and bottom of the mount. Bad design in my opinion.

I have always heard the Nitro trailers are very cheaply made. Falling is never fun...

Could have been much worse. Lost a friend several (15-20) years ago, he was alone, loading his boat on the trailer and stepped off the bow to the trailer, slipped and fell, hitting his head on the bumper of his truck. He landed face down, unconscious, in a few inches of water and drowned. The next guy at the ramp found Bob laying right behind the truck, with the engine still idling. Coroner found water in his lungs, so the fall didn't kill him.

I love the boats, never an issue but the two Nitros I’ve had, I totally agree the trailers are junk and not made very well.
My last on had so many weld spots from me having to fix it.
The boat is 100% good, the trailer is10% good.

That is what flashes through my mind, no one was at the ramp at the time it happened. I still can’t see how I fell with out falling into my bumper. I must have fell more sideways toward the right....at least my memory was picking myself up in that direction.

Do yall really think that they are not aware of the quality of their boats and trailers?

Oh they know they are dog sh*t

I have never had an issue with the boat. I love the two Nitro's I have had. If I had nay problems with the first one I would have never bought a second one.

Now the trailer! I totally agree worthless and built to maybe last a year or two.

Skeeter trailers are the same pieces of [censored]. Trust me. EZLoader needs a few class action law suits.

(UPDATE)
I finally got in touch with Nitro Boats about my step. They ask that I take my trailer to my nearest Bass Pro Shop and have them look at it for warranty. I did that and the service person was amazed at how it broke and even more amazed I wasn't as hurt as I got. They fully agreed it was a defective weld and they would have put one on my boat that day if they had one in stock, they checked and it wasn't.
The said they would turn that in to Nitro and the part would be in about a week.
Well...today the Bass Pro Shop called me and said Nitro turned down the warranty. They said it was over a year old. It is 15 months old. Forget that it was a defective part here, forget that Nitro on their web site say that these trailers are warranty for 3 years.
Needless to say I am very much upset over this. Plus they never did even mention the fact that I hurt my shoulder, elbow, hips and knee in this fall because of this defective step.
Nitro has just lost me as a future boat owner. I'm sure one guy like me isn't going to hurt them any but I cannot find any reason to support a company that has no support toward me.
Sadly the lawyers I have spoken to have decided they do not wish to take me on to pursue an class action suit against them because I did not suffer any broken bones or suffer life changing injuries.
If any of you have these steps please take a close look at the weld on those trailers, I do not wish anyone to have to face falling from their step and plant facing concrete below. I was very lucky to not have anymore serious injures than what I did receive. I am counting myself lucky I did not land on my head or neck or even crash into my bumper and not being killed or paralyzed.

Your head is too hard for that to happen... : A far as the warranty claim goes, remember Johnny's saving his money for the Zoom Baits purchase...

Again, glad your OK... Dan

I hear that Lew's Corp. is looking to purchase Zoom.....just my ear burning stuff I have heard from some of my lure suppliers. Remember Lew's did buy Strike King!
Yea, my head is plenty hard...now my neck is another thing...lol!