Flotation Toys (excl Official Life-saving Devices)

5YOF SWIMMING IN A LAKE AND A HOOK GOT CAUGHT IN HER LIFE JACKET AND THEN LODGED INTO LEFT UPPER LEG.DX: FOREIGN BODY LEFT UPPER LEG

66YOF COMES TO THE ER WITH FLANK PAIN AND HEAD INJURY. SHE HAS HAS FLANK PAIN RADIATING TO HER BLADDER, WITH DIFFICULTY URINATING; NAUSEA, VOMITING AND CHILLS. SHE HIT HER HEAD ON THE SIDE OF A POOL AFTER FALLING OFF HER RAFT. EXAM SHOWS CERVICAL TENDERNESS. ABDOMINAL, SUPRAPUBIC AND FLANK PAIN. DX: PYELONEHPRITIS ACUTE; NEPHROLITTHIASIS; INJURY HEAD; SPRAIN CERVICAL; SEPSIS

6YOM TO ER FOR SKIN IRRITATION & FRICTION BURN, PT WAS AT THE BEACH & HAD PADDLE JUMPERS ON & THE GOT CAUGHT ON SOMETHING & PT OBTAINED A FRICTION BURN TO LEFT FOREARM DX SKIN IRRITATION DUE TO TOPICAL AGENT, BURN LEFT FOREARM

3YOF FELL INTO A SWIMMING POOL WAS WEARING *** AND WENT UNDER THE WATER FOR ABOUT 10 SECONDS CAME UP COUGHING DX: NONFATAL SUBMERSION INJURY

11YOM WAS PLAYING AT SCHOOL WITH A POOL NOODLE AND WAS STRUCK IN THE LEFT EAR DX: CONTUSION EAR

67YOF, WAS AT THE GYM TODAY FLOATING ON A POOL NOODLE WHEN IT STARTED TO SWALLOW SOME WATER AND WAS CALLING FOR HELP DENIES CHEST PAIN OR SHORTNESS OF BREATH COMPLAINING OF DIFFUSE HEADACHE DX: NONINTRACTABLE HEADACHE

3YOF WAS WEARING *** AND FELL INTO A SWIMMING POOL AND WENT UNDER WATER FOR BRIEF FEW SECONDS AND STARTED COUGHING DX: NON FATAL SUBMERGENT

39YOF PRESENTS WITH LOWER EXTREMITY INJURY. PATIENT SAYTS SHE WAS FLOATING ON A RAFT AND JUMPED OUT HITTING HER LOWER LEG AND ANKLE ON A ROCK. DX: ANKLE CONTUSION

11YOM PRESENTS WITH TESTICULAR PAIN. PT WAS AT THE POOL AND CAME DOWN THE SLIDE WITH A FLOATATION TUBE BETWEEN HIS LEGS. PT STATES THE TESTICULAR PAIN IS 6/10. DX: TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA OF TESTICLE, VARICOCELE , PAIN IN TESTICLE DUE TO TRAUMA

21MOM WITH PAIN/LIMPING TO HIS RIGHT FOOT AFTER HE STEPPED ON A POOL NOODLE AND SLIPPED. DX: STRAIN OF RIGHT FOOT

3YOF PRESENTS WITH FOREIGN BODY IN STOMACH AFTER PT WAS CHEWING ON POOL NOODLE FLOATATION DEVICE AND POSSIBLY SWALLOWED IT. DX: SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY

20MOM WAS HAVING HIS ARM PULLED THROUGH A FLOATIE AND WAS INJURED DX: RIGHT NURSEMAID'S ELBOW *

Six month old infant was left in a bathtub with an Otterroo around her neck. The infant slipped out of the device and drowned.

I use a blue/green Swimways Swim Vest manufactured by SwimWays Corp in Virginia Beach VA for my 3 year old son. It worked well until the product started malfunctioning and is now a safety hazard. When we were in the pool last week, I noticed that the vest was sitting high up near my son's face. I picked him up and found that the clasp of the strap that goes under his crotch had come lose. I fixed it and a few minutes later, found that the clasp was undone again. That's when I noticed that the clasp had failed and is no longer staying secure. I am able to just tug the strap and the clasp comes undone. This product cannot be used anymore as it is a major drowning hazard. If the strap under the crotch comes undone, the child can slip out of the vest and drown. Here is a link to the product AI am referring to http://www.swimways.com/swim-vest-p-26.aspx

MYSELF AND THREE OTHERS WENT TUBING, I AND MY FIANCE USED THIS PRODUCT AND ABOUT TWO HOURS INTO THE TRIP MY BACK WAS HURTING, SO MY FRIEND OFFERED HIS TUBE TO REPLACE MINE, AND HE USED MINE. ABOUT AN HOUR LATER, ALL THREE OF US THAT RODE THE TWO PRODUCTS IN THIS RECALL, WERE IN EXCRUTIATING PAIN. WENT TO THE HOSPITAL THE NEXT DAY. PURCHASED OVER $100 DOLLARS IN PAIN RELEIVING CREAM, NOT TO MENTION THE EMERGENCY ROOM BILLS EACH. I HAVE PICTURES OF THE THREE OF US FOR DAYS FOLLOWING THE INCIDENT. YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE ON MY SKIN WHERE I HAD COME IN CONTACT WITH THIS PRODUCT AND WHERE I HADNT. I AND MY FIANCE HAD EVEN USED SUNSCREEN. TOTAL OF A 6 HOUR TRIP IN EXTREMELY TERRIBLE PAIN. WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHERE TO JUMP IN ON A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. TOTAL OF THREE OF US ON THE TRIP WERE BURNED. THE FOURTH OF US HAD NO BURNS, AS HE DID NOT COME IN CONTACT WITH THIS PRODUCT. WE DO STILL HAVE A TUBE AS EVIDENCE. FILED A COMPLAINT WITH WALMART ON THE 1ST, NEVER HEARD BACK.

Placed the Aqua Tot swimmer vest on the baby by putting arms through the arm pieces and buckling the body piece around her torso with a clasp. As soon as I placed the baby in the water the clasp unbuckled and the body piece was no longer supporting the baby. Multiple attempts were made to close the clasp, but it instantly would unbuckle putting the baby at risk of drowning.

The consumer ....Out of the pool, the child fell in backwards,face up, and the floatation device held her face under­ water and prevented her from rolling-over or lifting her face out of the water to breathe. It appears the product has been improved but not recalled, and the improved version appears to have the same potential for drowning. [REDACTED Probably has the same problem Thanks, [REDACTED]

I have a concern about a product I saw on line called the raft saver. This device is advertised as a product which keeps rafts and inflatable toys from blowing out of your pool when not being used. I know from personal experience that toys and such should never be kept in your pool while not being used. Some web sites which I've visited go as far as to say "all swimming pool toys should be properly deflated and stored away from the pool after each use." "Never leave toys and inflated devices in the pool or around the pool circumference." Toys and inflatables tend to draw young children which can lead to accidental drowning or entrapment, especially with this weighted devise holding the raft in the pool. The raft saver product promotes poor pool safety practices, is marketed to pool owners with younger children who use inflatable toys and rafts, and exposes the average consumer to an often unthought of danger. I had a personal experience involving may 6 year old nephew, I left some toys in my pool and turn my back for only a few seconds he tried to retrieve them and fell in, he wasn't seriously hurt nor did it involve the raft saver product but it opened my eyes to the importance of pool safety.

My younger daughter was using an arm floating (wing water in both arms) in the condo swimming pool, when suddenly for no reason it has torn itself (plastic material) and was no longer able to remain surrounding one of her arms. Fortunately we were very close to her and she was in a shallow part of the pool where she could stand up by herself. I can not imagine what would have happened if she was either away from us or in a location inside the pool that is not shallow. I still have the arm floating and have pictures from it as well on which I attached under this claim.

Hello, my name is [REDACTED1]. We have two of the aqua swim school flotation devices for children with the green colored handles and green back. My oldest son [REDACTED] was floating in the pool and the leg straps ripped from the flotation device, filled with water and he began to go under. It was then that we noticed the rip.