Pool suction-drain injury
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pool-suction-drain-injury-206-6029653
title:
Pool suction-drain injury
text:
Pool suction drain injury, also known as suction entrapment, occurs when the drain of a wading pool, swimming pool, hot tub, or fountain sucks in a swimmer's jewelry, torso, limbs, hair or buttocks. In some cases of buttocks entrapment, victims are disemboweled. In the United States, 147 incidents were documented between 1985 and 2002 of which 36 were fatal. In 1982, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that five children were disemboweled by drains in wading pools and urged pools to
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Injury due to suction entrapment
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_suction-drain_injury
date created:
2021-01-16T18:27:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:22:47Z
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