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Recent Posts in Near Drowning Accident Category

  • Intoxication and Drowning Accidents

    It is well-known that alcohol use is a factor in as many as 20 to 30% of traffic accidents involving a fatality or serious injury. Although the statistical data is less conclusive, it is estimated that alcohol impairment / intoxication is involved in a similar percentage of drowning and near-drowning accidents each year in the United States. In this post a drowning accident lawyer will explain the ...
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  • Drowning Accidents and Worker's Compensation

    Although most people think of drowning accidents in the context of recreational swimming, certain occupations are associated with an increased risk of drowning and near-drowning accidents. In today’s post, the drowning accident lawyer at the Doan Law Firm will provide a look at how worker’s compensation law deals with accidental drowning as a workplace injury and then offer suggestions that may ...
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  • No "Miracle Cure" for Near-drowning Accidents

    It’s no secret that newspaper editors and television news anchors love a story with a happy ending. It’s also no secret that there are more than a few individuals, with either job title, that have been known to play “fast and loose” with the facts in order to sell a little more of whatever his or her employer happens to be selling at the moment. In today’s post, a drowning accident lawyer gives us ...
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  • Near-Drowning Accidents

    Drowning and Near-Drowning As Public Health Problems The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are about 4,000 fatal drowning accidents in the United States each year, with an unknown number of additional victims of what has been called “near-drowning” although that term is gradually falling from use. Instead, the trend now is to classify drownings as “wet” or “dry,” ...
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  • The Doan Law Firm Backs Anti-Drowning Organization

    The Doan Law Firm, P.C. has made a substantial monetary contribution to The Texas Drowning Prevention Alliance (TXDPA). This wonderful organization is dedicated to preventing drowning incidents by providing safety information and resources to communities, families and doctors. Since the charity's founding in September 2011, the group has created partnerships with various communities, hospitals, ...
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  • The Consequences of Near and Accidental Drowning

    Beaches, boats, swimming pools and water parks can be extremely dangerous areas for not only children but adults as well. There are also some risks to fishing charter boats and commercial dive boats. Essentially, anywhere there is water and people around it there's a chance for disaster to strike. Throughout the United States accidental drowning is a leading cause of death of young children under ...
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  • Near Drowning Accidents and Hiring a Drowning Lawyer

    Injuries suffered from a near drowning accident are a heart wrenching time for the person involved as well as the entire family. Near drowning accidents cause injuries that can include permanent disability and/or lengthy periods of recovery. Both of those can have immense levels of impact on both the entire family unit and the victims themselves. Consequences of a near drowning accident include: ...
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  • Drowning or Near Drowning Accidents Caused by Murky and Cloudy Water Pools

    When there are swimming pools that have water that's cloudy or murky it becomes increasingly more dangerous. For instance, swimmers that are in distress can be lost easily underwater when the water is murky or cloudy and the rescue efforts will become increasingly difficult and sometimes fail. If either you or someone that you love has been involved in a near drowning accident or someone you love ...
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  • State Closes Day Cares Following Near-Drowning

    Pennsylvania authorities shut down three different day care facilities in western Pennsylvania after a seven-year-old boy nearly drowned. The boy, who nearly drowned during an overnight camping trip, was rescued by a nine-year-old girl, who saw him when no other adults did and dove into the water to pull him out. The daycare, run by Kid Biz LLC, has reported that the centers have offered camping ...
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  • Last-Minute Schedule Change Lets Sheriff Saves Drowning Man

    Morrow County, Oregon Undersheriff Steve Myren pulled a Walla Walla man from the chilly waters of the Columbia River during a Fourth of July celebration, earlier this month, after filling in at the last minute to help control an overcrowded marina event. Reports say that Myren got a late call to help patrol the marina during the fireworks show, but while on the boat, Myren spotted a woman with ...
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  • CPR Keeps Judge's Son From Drowning

    A man trained as a paramedic performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on his two-year-old son and revived him after he was found floating lifeless in pool during a Fourth of July picnic. Reports say Judge Brad Stuart and his family were swimming at a private residence in an Ocobla community on the Fourth when, at about 2 p.m, the Stuarts' son, John Stuart, 2, was discovered floating in the pool. ...
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  • Off-Duty Fire Fighter Saves Drowning Teen

    A five-year-old Fort Collins, Colorado boy got very lucky recently when an off-duty Poudre Fire Authority firefighter saved his life from a near-drowning. Firefighter Michael Dairon, who was evidently a patron at the same pool where the so-far unidentified youngster went underwater, came the the aid of the boy's father, who had seen him in distress and pulled him from the community pool in eastern ...
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  • Boy Rescued After 20 Minutes Under Water

    A 12-year-old boy suffered a near-drowning recently after a hectic 20-minute rescue effort by several Marion County Lake neighbors who helped lake staff rescue the boy at the lake's swimming beach. The boy was reportedly with two other youths who were playing with a dog in the water when one of the boys went under. Emergency services were called, but before crews arrived, lake visitors began ...
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  • Pro Football Player Saves Drowning Child

    Reports say Kansas City Chiefs NFL Pro Football player Leonard Pope saved a child from drowning at a Georgia swimming pool earlier this month. Anne Moore, the mother of the rescued child, took her son, 6-year-old Bryson, to a pool party one Saturday and saw him go underwater. She began screaming for help. Pope, who is also from the same town where the party was held, Americus, GA, dove into the ...
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  • CPR Saves Boy From Drowning

    A swift reaction by a camper saved a four-year-old who had sunk to the bottom of the pool, unconscious. Sandra Loza, of Spring Valley, ONT, was in a Marseilles campground pool early in June when a youngster, Colton Hecker of Ottawa, walked away from his grandmother, Tina Larsen, and re-entered the water without supervision. Loza, who was with her own children swimming nearby, noticed Colton ...
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  • Sunbather Saves Man From Downing

    A Michigan man was saved from drowning late last month when a nearby sunbather who knew CPR rescued the man from the water and single-handedly resuscitated him. Michael Flowers was relaxing on a Wolf Lake beach when Joshua Huddlestun, 25, of Egelston, Mich., somehow inhaled water and was motionless in the water. Flowers, who knew CPR, helped restrieve the man. She then began to work on the man, ...
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  • Local Resident Suffers Near-Drowning in Stafford, TX

    While excercising in an LA Fitness swimming pool south of Houston, a 70-year-old woman was nearly drown , prompting a gym member to perform CPR and resuscitate her at the scene. After another swimmer saw the victim in distress, he pulled her from the water. Another gym member -- a registered nurse -- performed CPR on the victim, who was breathing but unconscious when Missouri City police arrived. ...
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  • Off-Duty Firefighter Saves Drowning Canadian Man

    A tragedy was avoided last month when three visitors took swift action to save a drowning man's life at Osoyoos Lake, near Brookvale Campground in Vancouver, Canada last month. When a 39-year-old man began struggling to stay afloat, unable to swim back to shore, he eventually slipped beneath the surface and began to drown, reports say. Seeing the man in trouble, and then watching him slip beneath ...
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  • Apartment Manager Saves Boy From Drowning

    Reports say several brothers from the Caramegee family, of Tucson, AZ, were swimming at their apartment's pool, when one of the older children noticed one of the younger ones at the bottom of the pool. The older brother dove down and retrieved him. Yelling for help, the resident manager of the apartment complex, Ron Drumbore, who is CPR certified, immediately came to the 11-year-old's rescue. The ...
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