Contestants on Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge are in search of compensation for accidents they allegedly suffered on the present, their attorneys stated.

Express Solicitors is representing two gamers who it says “suffered injuries such as hypothermia and nerve damage”.

Players competed for a $4.56m (£3.63m) prize on the spin-off present, based mostly on the hit South Korean drama Squid Game.

A present spokesperson stated in a press release: “We take the welfare of our contestants extremely seriously.”

Studio Lambert, the corporate who co-produced the present for Netflix, has been contacted for remark.

Express Solicitors claimed the contestants suffered the accidents when “they had to stay motionless for hours in cold temperatures while filming”.

Daniel Slade, CEO of the UK agency, stated: “Contestants thought they were taking part in something fun and those injured did not expect to suffer as they did.

“Now they’ve been left with accidents after spending time being caught in painful stress positions in chilly temperatures.

“We have a case where someone complains of hypothermia. One had his hands turn purple from the cold.”

The regulation agency stated it has despatched letters of declare to Studio Lambert outlining their shoppers alleged accidents it says have been “a result of poor health and safety standards on set”.

A letter of declare is a step earlier than authorized motion – placing an individual or organisation on discover courtroom proceedings could also be introduced towards them.

The Green Light, Red Light sport sees gamers run to a line whereas a 13.7ft (4.2m) doll sings and faces the wall. But gamers should stand nonetheless as soon as the doll rotates its neck to face gamers.

Those caught transferring have been eradicated utilizing an automatic video system with a number of adjudicators choosing out gamers that moved.

Stephen Lambert, CEO of Studio Lambert, beforehand stated gamers who received throughout the road shortly took two hours to complete the sport, however slower gamers took 4 or 5 hours.

“Everybody had been told it was going to be arduous,” he stated in press supplies for the present.

A spokesperson for Squid Game: The Challenge stated: “No lawsuit has been filed by any of the Squid Game contestants. We take the welfare of our contestants extremely seriously.”

The sport was filmed at Cardington Studios in Bedford in January.

Last week Mr Lambert advised BBC News it took participant welfare “terribly seriously”.

He stated: “Everybody was warm when it was going to be cold, we took all the necessary steps to prepare them for that.

“Yes, a number of nameless folks have been sad in regards to the truth they’d been eradicated and it had been a chilly, fairly lengthy expertise.

“But it was no worse than many unscripted shows… when you’re giving away a huge prize it is always going to be to clear to us it was going to be a tough show to take part in.”