A mother of four has died in a freak accident while exercising at an LA Fitness gym in Washington state.

Delrie Rosario, 36, fell and hit her head on a treadmill at the gym in the city of Kent on Friday 21 July, her grieving family told KIRO-7 News.

Her sister Marissa Woods told the news site that Rosario had tried to slow down the machine when she missed a step and collapsed, hitting her head on the treadmill.

“I was screaming, you know, ‘Anybody, just please help! Anybody know how to do CPR?” Ms Woods told KIRO-7 News.

While other gym-goers stopped exercising to help, none of the LA Fitness staff came to her aid, Ms Woods said.

“Just think, somebody’s walking around…with her big heart. They don’t even know what heart they’re about to get.”

Rosario was a devoted mother who worked two jobs to provide for her four children Delaino, Rickey, Ric’Kae and Delaiah, her sister added.

On her Facebook page, Rosario described herself as “The Momma”.

Her friends have set up a GoFundme page to help support her surviving children, which had raised $24,000 of a $50,000 target by Thursday.

“Among the many incredible qualities she possessed, being an amazing Mother was top of the list,” organiser Noelle Meluskey wrote.

“Heartbreakingly she has left behind four beautiful children.”

While deaths on treadmills are rare, with only three to four recorded each year, thousands of people are injured annually, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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