Pool Drain Pulls Small Intestine Out Of Young Girl

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                          Pool Drain Pulls Small Intestine Out Of Young Girl

(WCCO) Minneapolis A 6-year-old Edina, Minn. girl has been hospitalized after a horrific accident at a swimming pool.

Abigail Taylor was severely injured Friday when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club.

Now Abigail’s father has a warning to other families: Pool and hot tub drain accidents are a hidden danger that many of us don’t understand.

Abigail has big brown eyes, a dazzling smile and at just 6 years old she has already competed in local swim meets.

“She loves to swim,” said her father Scott Taylor.

Her love of swimming is why her family didn’t think twice when she played at a kiddie pool at the family’s golf club on Friday night.

Taylor said as Abigail was getting out of the pool, she fell.

“She more or less blacked out, she passed out, fell face-first onto the pool decking,” he said. The family thought it was a seizure.

An ambulance rushed her to Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. Several hours later a surgeon said Abigail was lucky to be alive.

“The suction had caused a two-inch tear in her rectum and had basically disemboweled her by pulling out her small intestines, almost all of it,” said Taylor.

Her father said a search of the pool filter turned up Abigail’s intestine. He said Abigail was seriously wounded because the cover of the drain had been removed.

In most public pools the drain cover is screwed in and cannot be pulled off. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the pressure on some pool drains can be as strong as 300 pounds per square inch.

“It never even crosses anybody’s mind that potential at the bottom of that pool is enough force to literally disembowel a child, an adult,” said Taylor.

Abigail will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life and will have to have a colostomy bag.

“We view it as a miracle that she’s still with us,” her father said.

She is improving. Wednesday morning she stunned her family by asking a question.

“She said, ‘Am I going to be on the news?’ She said, ‘Why do you ask?’ She said, ‘Because I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else,’” recalled Taylor.

Since 1990, 170 people, mostly children, have been caught in drains and 27 of them have died. Legislation is pending that would require pools and hot tubs to have multiple drains to ease the suction.

Some pools have a safety vacuum cutoff which shuts down if someone is trapped. New drain covers which cost less than $50 can also help.

According to the Associated Press, an official at the golf club expressed sympathy for the family and said he didn’t think anything was wrong with the pool, but referred questions to the club’s attorney, who declined to comment.

fucking sick, this reminds me of the pearl diving story in the short stories put together by the dude that wrote fight club :lol:

Ha Ha, thats rediculas, bad, but rediculas

Saw that on CNN. Thats awful.

ugh

Ouch.

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this reminds me of the pearl diving story in the short stories put together by the dude that wrote fight club :lol:

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i don’t think she has the guts for that.

thats horrible, cant believe u put an owned smilie in there

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thats horrible, cant believe u put an owned smilie in there

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it was copy & paste… tho, i don’t really disagree with it.

Remember the girl that got her hair caught in the hot tub and drown?
It is not just a drain, it is the intake to the pump/filter system which has uber suction.

Oh wow.

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it is the intake to the pump/filter system which has uber suction.

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This makes me think of Peter Griffin doing something really stupid for some reason.

there’s just something wrong with this situation. the girl doesnt complain about pain or anything? the pool drain has enough suction power to pull your intestines out? come on… i guess it’s POSSIBLE, just not likely.

anybody that thinks that is funny is a disgusting human being

I heard a story like this a couple of times a few years past. They pushed for the screw down filter covers.

Someone screwed up on that pool. Sucks for the girl :frowning:

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Ha Ha, thats rediculas, bad, but rediculas

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ridiculous.

[quote=“MicaH,post:8,topic:31896"”]

thats horrible, cant believe u put an owned smilie in there

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meh

i dunno. they should either change the drains

or

put something around the thing to keep this from happening

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anybody that thinks that is funny is a disgusting human being

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Terrible.

I remember when I replaced the lower drain in my pool I installed one of the screw on kind because of reading about the kid drowning when they got suctioned to it.

Real PITA screwing in the two philips screws at the bottom of the deep end though.

hope you good at holding your breath lol ^^

everything is so fucking gray for some of you tasteless, crude, insensitive motherfuckers… when it suits you. Absolutely pathetic. Some of you fucks did not get beat enough as children because you learned no compassion or respect for others. If that was my little 6 year old girl that just lost ALL chances for a normal life and will be a cripple forever, and I catch you making jokes about it… omfg … you have NO idea…

beyond tasteless