If any incident occurs around a swimming pool what comes to mind first is drowning, there’s a 70% probability that it is drowning. However, there are other several swimming pool related accidents and injuries aside drowning. For knowledge sake, other forms of this accidents will be discussed.
Brain Damage
Suffering a trauma to the head is one problem that is related to the swimming pool. An individual could suffer a brain injury due to a number of reasons; in and around the pool area is slippery. This could lead to a fall with the individual hitting the head on concrete. Aside this, near drowning can make an individual suffer oxygen deprivation to the brain. So also, a defective diving board or defective slides of a swimming pool could lead to a miscalculated fall. As a result of such damage to the brain, physical or mental disabilities may render an individual requiring support.
Spinal Cord Damage
This might result in permanent disability to any individual just like a brain damaged person. You should be aware that a damage to the spinal cord can be of different levels of gravity, may be minor or major damage. Most times, many forms of spinal cord damage are undiagnosed. An individual with a spinal cord injury may feel nothing on the tongue, tingling sensation on the limbs and total weakness of muscles.
Drowning and Near Drowning
This has been the second-leading of unintentional injury among children between the ages of 5 to 14 years in the United States. This is not just in the United States alone but in most countries of the world. There is an estimated 372,000 death resulting from drowning worldwide annually.
Aside from these injuries, there are other swimming pool related injuries. Electrocutions due to defectives wiring, severe cuts to the face that can permanently disfigure an individual, and fracturing of bones are other common forms of injuries.
Nonetheless, if the injury is as a result of negligent or intentional acts, victims have the right to seek compensation.
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