Sentence examples for pool drain from inspiring English sources

Are you all right?" Mr. Edward's most famous case involved a young girl named Valerie Lakey who was seriously injured after being trapped on a swimming pool drain.

Since 1985, more than 150 cases of swimming pool drain entrapments have been reported, which have led to at least 48 deaths according to the lawsuit.

In Oyster Bay, the deputy parks commissioner, George Baptista, did not know about the new pool drain law named after Virginia Graeme Baker until asked about it last week.

During renovations, West Caldwell added a secondary pool drain to reduce the amount of suction at each drain, making it less likely someone could get trapped, said Gordon Bruchac, the town recreation director.

But we don't believe that we should take away the rights of people like Valerie Lakey, who was a young girl who I represented, 5 years old, severely injured for life on a defective swimming pool drain cover.

One of the last he tried was in early 1997, when he won a $25 million award for a small girl, Valerie Lakey, who had part of her intestines sucked out when a swimming pool drain cover came loose and she was trapped by the escaping water.

In the midst of all the concern, the pool drained late July 27.

From 1999 to 2007 at least nine people died in pool drains and 63 were injured, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

There can be quiet explosions, the way a bed feels half empty like a swimming pool draining.

When it comes to the issue of pool drains, many municipal pools have single drains, but they are large, grate-style drains, and therefore are considered safe and in compliance with the law.

There have been several other incidents of people becoming trapped by pool drains, enough that over the last few years Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania have added anti-entrapment requirements to building codes for new pools.