Head, neck, and face injuries that have increased in recent decades with the popularity of board diving among children do not necessarily mean stricter regulations are needed, such as disallowing somersault and backward facing dives, because divers generally self-regulate based …
A national safety group is using Nevada as an example for a campaign to reduce the number of child drownings around the country. Officials with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission blended news reports with census data to suggest that …
It’s been a deadly summer in swimming pools in South Carolina. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says that the number of children who drowned in pools and spas in the state during July was the highest per capita in …
The Board of Health in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, has unanimously voted to take no action against the owner of the hotel where a 9-year-old girl from New York drowned last month. The victim’s 12-year-old sister almost drowned. A lawyer for the …
Authorities are calling for increased safety around swimming pools after a Las Vegas teen who was found unconscious in an apartment swimming pool died over the weekend and another teen was hospitalized in critical condition in a separate case. The …