Usher’s 5-year-old son survived a near-drowning incident involving a pool drain, but each year other kids aren’t so lucky. The suction created by the drains can trap children under the surface or ...

HOUSTON – In a recent incident that has alarmed parents, an 8-year-old girl died after she was caught in a pool drain pipe at a hotel pool in northwest Houston, raising concerns about the safety ...

Parents don't think they are dangerous. But spa and pool drains are serious hazards for children. Wednesday morning, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission will release a list of hidden hazards ...

A silent and powerful force lurks in tens of thousands of public and backyard pools. And the CBS4 I-Team has learned that, despite a new federal law designed to prevent it, the danger remains. CBS4 ...

Members of Congress target regulators they say weakened pool-drain safety law. June 11, 2010 — -- On Thursday, four members of Congress sent letters of protest to the federal commissioners who ...

ABC News investigation last summer exposed fatal problems. August 24, 2009— -- Live television pictures from a Key Biscayne, Florida condo this morning showed a child sucked into a pool drain ...

MINNEAPOLIS—Nearly three months after a federal deadline to make public swimming pools safer, many have yet to be fitted with equipment aimed at keeping children safe from the powerful and sometimes ...

Question: My friend just had a pool built. Her pool and attached spa each have two main drains. I asked her whether she knew why there were two drains. She said the pool builder told her it was ...

A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain’s powerful suction, her family said. Abigail Taylor was injured in the wading pool on June 29 ...

The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department says most of the city's pools and spas still need the anti-drowning drain covers required under a new federal law that goes into effect Friday. But the ...