South Carolina Personal Injury Attorneys

Avoiding Pool and Drowning Accidents

During the summer months, it is important to understand swimming pool safety in order to prevent tragic drowning accidents. Swimming and child safety should be a number one priority, especially for those with toddlers and infants.

Slipping and falling near a pool where the ground is wet can lead to spinal cord and head injuries. If you or a loved one suffers a pool injury on someone else’s property due to negligence or unsafe conditions, contact a premises liability attorney.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s drowning statistics report that about ten people die every day from unintentional drowning. Of these ten, at least two are children age 14 or younger. Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for children ages 1 to 14.

What Are Pool Dangers That Can Cause Injury or Death?

• Lack of Proper Safety Equipment
• Failure to supervise
• Failure to warn
• Lack of fencing
• Failure to Maintain
• Defective Equipment

There are many ways to make sure your children and family are not the victims of a swimming pool accident. Pool safety equipment for your pool at home, such as pool covers and pool fences can be used to keep small children away from the water and avoid drowning accidents.

A drowning child can be a scary thing if the parent does not know what to do or does not recognize that the child is drowning.

Sometimes a drowning child in a pool can be mistaken for a playing child. In most cases, the child will not be able to call out for help or tell you what is wrong.

Most drowning victims only struggle for about 60 seconds before sinking underneath the water for good.

The buddy system, making sure children and adults always swim in pairs, is a good safety measure to take in order to avoid a drowning accident.

In order to prevent a drowning accident in a swimming pool, take a CPR class offered at your local American Red Cross and learn other first aid tips that could help save someone’s life.

What to do if you or a loved one suffered a swimming pool injury?

Call our toll free number or contact one of  our South Carolina personal injury and wrongful death attorneys  in Columbia, South Carolina for a free consultation.

Although many of the people we represent in these cases are from right here in South Carolina, our lawyers routinely take clients from throughout the Southeastern U.S. and, in certain types of product liability or pharmaceutical cases, from across the country as well. If you or a loved one has been injured or killed through no fault of your own, contact the personal injury attorneys at the Strom Law Firm, LLC today for a free, no-cost consultation today.

If we handle your South Carolina personal injury case, we usually work on a contingency fee.  In most cases, we do not get paid unless we win your case, and our attorneys fees and costs are typically a small percentage of what we are able to collect for you.