Child Injury Lawyer Blog
By David Wolf, Attorney
Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network
Throughout the United States at schools, day care centers, after school programs, and public parks, children are injured on playground equipment every day. Many injuries result from falls from monkey bars or jungle gyms. A report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission indicated that most playground injuries resulted from falls off, falls from, or from being pushed off monkey bars or jungle gyms. Due to the high incidence of child injuries from monkey bars and jungle gyms, it is important for child care workers, teachers, parents, and caregivers to provide close supervision and assistance when small children are using monkey bars and jungle gyms. A helping hand from an adult will go a long way to preventing serious injuries like fractures, bruises, and lacerations from taking place.
A mother arrived a day care center in Australia to pick up her son and found something very disturbing – her son was locked in the day care center alone with no supervision or anyone else around. The mother then broke through a window to get her son out of the day care center. The mother arrived just before closing time at the day care center. Unfortunately, it appears that the staff left early and forgot about the little boy left behind. This incident was frightening but not tragic as the little boy was not harmed even though he was left alone.
Special needs children / students need to have proper supervision and patience from teachers in Indiana and other States. In Lafayette, Indiana, a special need middle school teacher was fired by the school board for duct taping a student’s mouth shut. This truly is no way to discipline a child or make a point. It is corporal punishment – plain and simple. Pamela Dahnke, the middle school teacher, was a health and nutrition teacher. One would think that she would realize the psychological and social ramifications of such acts in Indiana.
Studies conducted at Duke (North Carolina) University Eye Center and other facilities show that premature infants are at a higher risk for severe vision loss. It is vital that doctors identify those premature infants who are at risk for complications from ROP. Infants, who are premature with a low birth rate, should be identified by medical professionals. There is a small window of opportunity to identify and treat ROP. Otherwise, the child faces a lifetime of blindness and disability.
Highway 49 in Mississippi continues to be a dangerous highway for many Mississippi drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and bicylists. There are many automobile accidents and trucking accidents on this Mississippi highway. Many of these accidents cause serious personal injuries and deaths. Robert McGill was driving a truck when he ran off the road and crashed. He died at the accident site on at Church Street according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. The passenger, Angelica Porter, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was also injured when she was ejected from the truck.
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The Baltimore Sun has reported that stores in Maryland including Big Lot Stores, Inc. and Dollar General Corporation have stopped selling Elmo’s Take Along Card Games, a toy that includes a backpack and playing cards. See