Swimming pool drain covers sold online at Walmart should not be used because they fail to meet mandatory safety standards. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning consumers to ...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (InvestigateTV) — For nine months, a Chinese company sold hundreds of illegal pool drain covers on Amazon to American consumers. Those covers were similar in design to one that ...
When the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act’s stricter safety standards went into effect December 19, 2008, pool products distributors and retailers were faced with a major problem—what to ...
More than half of Mesa’s public kiddie wading pools have outdated drain covers that can trap or kill children. The city racked up violations in the latest Maricopa County pool inspections for not ...
Yet flat pool-drain covers sold by China-based companies also were for sale on eBay in August 2023. “eBay works closely with a range of regulatory agencies across the world to promote product safety ...
Congress passed a law in 2007 banning drain covers that lay flat against a pool because they don’t protect swimmers from the powerful suction of drains that can entrap them. The law was inspired in ...
The suction pulled her buttocks against the drain, and the force of that intake sucked out her small intestine. In 2022, when the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission found the illegal pool drain ...