Risk Watch Blog

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Did You Know?

Wow! While searching on the Internet at http://www.nfpa.org/riskwatch/kids.html and http://www.safekids.org, I found some very interesting pieces of information. Did you know that a person can drown in only one inch of water? That is hard to believe! I am going to try to find more information about drownings since I have two young sons, 6 yrs. and 3 yrs. What information did you find that was interesting or surprising?

32 Comments:

  • Did you know that in 2002 at least 13 children 14 and under died because of toy related injuries?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:02 PM  

  • One time my friends and I decided to pile on top of each other. We all stoped when we all said it was hard to breath. A.P.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:16 PM  

  • Every year,a couple of weeks before July 4 over 4,300 kids ages 14 and under get injured from fireworks. A.P

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:04 PM  

  • c.c.-my uncle disobeyed his parents when he was a teenager and played with a loaded shotgun. He blew a huge hole in my grandparnts dresser and damaged a bunch of their clothes when he shot the gun he thought was not loaded. NOT SMART!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:40 PM  

  • I found out that43,300 children under the age of 14 were treated in the hosbitle in the year 2002.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:20 PM  

  • I learnd the phone number for the poison cuntrul is 1-800-222-1222.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:42 PM  

  • Did you know that in 2001 96 children died from poisning

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:23 PM  

  • Did you know that in 2002 43,300 children under the age of 14 were treated in the hospital for bike and pedestrian injuries?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:26 PM  

  • Did you know that in 2001 about 99,400 children were treated in a hospital emergency room!!!!So children and adults should be carefull!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:28 PM  

  • Hi to all the kids in Ms. Chamberlain's Risk Watch group! My name is John Norton and I live in the mountains of North Carolina, where lots of folks have guns and like to shoot them in the woods all around us. During hunting season, we try to wear bright fluorescent colors when we walk our dogs! I work for the Alabama Best Practices Center and Ms. Chamberlain is one of our Internet experts. You're lucky to have her as a teacher.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:44 PM  

  • I learned that I should never play with guns.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:34 PM  

  • Did you know that in 2003 200,000 people died in car crashes.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:35 PM  

  • I learned that
    I sould never playwith GUNS.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:37 PM  

  • Did you know it takes less than 2 minutes for a drowning child to become unconscious!!Amazing.And did you know that it takes less than 10 seconds for a child in the bathtub to become submerged.That is just so hard to believe!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:39 PM  

  • I learnt that 43,000 children died
    every year before july 4.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:42 PM  

  • In 2001 134 children 14 and under died in bicycle related incidents.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:18 PM  

  • Did you know that a three year old can fire a new hand gun?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:20 PM  

  • I learned that the sport of baseball has the highest fatality rate among all sports for ages 5 to 14.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:31 PM  

  • Did you know that most children that die are under 5!Because the dont know what to do when they are in a scary dark room filled with smoke and they are tempted to hide so finaly the fire reaches these kids and they die!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:06 PM  

  • In the time it takes to cross the room for a towel a child can drown thats really scary! m.m.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:10 PM  

  • Never put a bag over your head because you can suffocate. That's what I learned. z.s.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:32 PM  

  • In 2001, 859 children under 14, drowned.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:05 PM  

  • Most firearm owning parents beleive they kept their firearms safe from their kids,but 75% to 80%of the second and first graders knew where they where kept.WOW!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:29 PM  

  • In 2001 96 children ages 14 and under died from poisoning.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:12 PM  

  • Madison said... Do not take any pills unless you know what bottle it came out of.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:01 PM  

  • In 1999, 650 children ages 14 and under died in home fires. Another 2500 (roughly) suffered non- fatal injuriesin reported fires.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:13 PM  

  • While I was walking into my classroom on the 3rd grade hall, I was wearing flip flops with the big thick sole, I lost my balance and fell into the door facing. My forehead hit the facing and it busted a place about one inch long and about one eighth of an inch deep. Instead of the doctor using stitches he glued it together with a special type of glue. This was less hurtful, but it did leave a light pink scar.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:54 PM  

  • I learned thar childhood drownings and near drowningscanhappen in a matter of seconds. In 2001, 859 children ages 14 and under drowned.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:22 PM  

  • did you know that if a day is very dry a spark can start a fire

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:34 PM  

  • HBH
    Did you know that approximately 9 children in the U.S. drown each day? That is awful! For every child that drowns, an additional three recieve emergency room treatment. Eighty-eight percent of children were under some form of supervision when they drowned!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:59 AM  

  • Rea - MBE

    Did you know that approximately 500 kids between 5 & 9 years old die each year in auto accidents? More than 40% of these children are unrestrained at the time of accident.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:03 PM  

  • I learned that a kid can drown under an inch of water. Also I learnd that in 2001 859 ages of 14 and under drowned. They tippically occur when a child is left unsupervsed.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:31 PM  

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