Memorial Day weekend is here, which means it's the official start of swimming pool season. This year though, you might want to think twice before jumping in and making a splash. There has been a ...

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 company that sold pool drain covers on eBay and received a violation letter last year did not comply with the CPSC’s request for a recall, agency records show. It’s unknown how many of those illegal ...

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 ...

Safety rules for pool and spa drain covers that help prevent children from being trapped underwater are inadequate and lead to wildly different results on federally mandated tests, according to ...

Thousands of public pools may be putting your kids at risk this summer, because they're violating a new federal safety rule. The National Swimming Pool Foundation estimates that half of all 300,000 ...

Congress passed a law in 2007 banning drain covers that lay flat against a pool because they don’t protect swimmers from the powerful suction of drains that can entrap them. The law was inspired in ...

Yet flat pool-drain covers sold by China-based companies also were for sale on eBay in August 2023. “eBay works closely with a range of regulatory agencies across the world to promote product safety ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (InvestigateTV) — For nine months, a Chinese company sold hundreds of illegal pool drain covers on Amazon to American consumers. Those covers were similar in design to one that ...