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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 .
The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (VGBA) is a United States law named after Virginia Graeme Baker, who died after sustaining a pool suction-drain injury in June 2002, when the suction from a spa drain entrapped her under the water.
Pool drain vortex as viewed from above the water at Grange Park wading pool Underwater view of drain, showing vortex-formation phenomenon. A drain is the primary vessel or conduit for unwanted water or waste liquids to flow away, either to a more useful area, funnelled into a receptacle, or run into sewers or stormwater mains as waste discharge to be released or processed.
The case involved Valerie Lakey, a girl who at five years old [12] sustained pool suction-drain injury. [13] She was disemboweled by the suction power of the pool drain pump when she sat on an open pool drain whose protective cover had been removed by other children at the pool, after the swim club had failed to install the cover properly.
Zac Efron was involved in a "minor swimming incident" that landed him in the hospital in Spain.Efron's rep told TMZ that the 36-year-old actor was taken to the hospital in Ibiza as a precautionary ...
Details have emerged about Zac Efron’s injury after he was treated in hospital following an incident in a swimming pool in Ibiza.. It has now been reported that the High School Musical star, 36 ...
Image credits: Metrochaka #4. This past summer I was eating laying down and ended up choking.I couldn't scream for help. Ran to the bathroom to get some water to wash it down.
Two distinct and separate methods are employed in the sanitation of a swimming pool. The filtration system removes organic waste on a daily basis by using the sieve baskets inside the skimmer and circulation pump and the sand unit with a backwash facility for easy removal of organic waste from the water circulation.