Just in time for Halloween, a Lombard man is suing the local Jaycees, claiming he was injured two years ago in a fall while helping the club construct its annual haunted house.

David Scofield, 25, filed a lawsuit Oct. 1 in DuPage County Circuit Court seeking more than $50,000 in damages to help pay for medical procedures and surgeries. He fell eight feet, fracturing his elbow, according to the lawsuit.

The injury has required surgery and ongoing treatment from an orthopedic doctor, said Christopher Theisen, Scofield’s attorney.

“(The Jaycees) promised to pay his bills and then reneged on that promise,” Theisen said. “The poor guy didn’t have health insurance, so they put him in a tough spot.”

The lawsuit alleges the Jaycees failed to properly train and supervise volunteers and didn’t make sure the work area was safe.

The Jaycees did not respond to requests for comment. A phone number given for the president on the club’s answering machine message is not in service.

It is unclear if the haunted house, which was in its 37th year last Halloween, is operating this year. The haunted house Web site has not been updated since last year, and a restaurant supply store has opened in the old Menards storefront on Route 53 where the club held the event in previous years.

This is the third time since 1995 the Lombard Jaycees have been sued over injuries that occurred at its haunted houses.

In 1995, a 49-year-old Glen Ellyn woman sued the Jaycees, claiming she injured her tailbone, back and foot two years earlier after going down a poorly lit slide into a fence at the haunted house. She was awarded $6,000 and court costs in an arbitration hearing, according to court records.

A 6-year-old Lombard boy suffered brain and skull injuries in 1996 after a gate hit him in the head, according to a lawsuit filed the following year. The suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.

Theisen’s law partner, James Roche, represented the boy’s family in that case.