{"id":1754,"date":"2016-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/2016\/07\/20\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:12:12","slug":"summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summertime safety may cause you to think about boating, swimming pool, or heat stroke incidents. A somewhat hidden safety concern, especially in warmer months, involves child safety on playgrounds \u2013 both public and private. Each year, more than 200,000 children visit emergency rooms after being injured while playing on a playground. Approximately 15 lose their lives. The key in lowering these numbers is understanding the dangers that can be present on playgrounds so that you can prevent your children from being a part of those horrific statistics.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a different between a risk and a hazard on playgrounds. We want our children to take risks out on the playground because that\u2019s how they learn and grow. We need to eliminate the most common playground hazards so that when they take those risks they won\u2019t get hurt. Many hazards are invisible to a parent\u2019s untrained eye and a child\u2019s untrained body. According to certified playground safety inspector Bill Foelsch of the National Recreation and Park Association, the most critical dangers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improper surfacing: Wood chips are the most common cushioning surface for falls and they work well, but they\u2019re supposed to be at least nine inches deep. That protective fall zone is supposed to extend out from the equipment in every direction.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of maintenance: Hooks holding up swings can easily erode, which makes them much less thick \u2013 sometimes leading to breaking away.<\/li>\n<li>Pinch points: Many points on playgrounds can pinch, even crush, a child\u2019s fingers. Bridges are common areas where this danger exists.<\/li>\n<li>Head entrapment: This is one of the most serious and unexpected hazards, caused by improper openings in equipment. Playground inspectors use a smaller probe to test whether a child\u2019s torso will fit into an opening, then a larger one to test whether a child\u2019s head will fit.<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate guard rails: Another concern is the lack of or inadequacy of guard rails.<\/li>\n<li>Entanglement hazards: the space between platforms and slides or other add-ons can lead to clothing and other items becoming tangled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These dangers apply both to public playgrounds and home playgrounds. In fact, most injuries happen in backyard playgrounds. If you regularly take a child to a playground, make sure they understand these hazards and know to avoid them. If a playground in your neighborhood features one of these safety concerns, contact the local government to find out how to get the playground serviced. The first step to child safety is proper adult supervision \u2013 playgrounds are just one of the many areas where this is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statistics for child injuries and deaths from playgrounds is staggering.  Here are a few of the most common hazards identified on playgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-safety-tips","8":"category-summer-safety","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds | Jones &amp; Swanson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds: Jones &amp; Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds: Jones &amp; Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jones &amp; Swanson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-20T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-29T21:12:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jones &amp; Swanson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@awjoneslaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@awjoneslaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jones &amp; Swanson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jones &amp; Swanson\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf\"},\"headline\":\"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-20T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-29T21:12:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/\"},\"wordCount\":431,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Safety Tips\",\"Summer Safety\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/\",\"name\":\"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-20T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-29T21:12:12+00:00\",\"description\":\"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1800,\"caption\":\"Shutterstock 153645101 scaled\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Safety Tips\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/category\/safety-tips\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/\",\"name\":\"Jones & Swanson\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png\",\"width\":311,\"height\":140,\"caption\":\"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/awjoneslaw\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jonesandswanson\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jones-swanson\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf\",\"name\":\"Jones &amp; Swanson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jones &amp; Swanson\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds | Jones & Swanson","description":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds","og_description":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!","og_url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/","og_site_name":"Jones &amp; Swanson","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw","article_published_time":"2016-07-20T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-08-29T21:12:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1800,"url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jones &amp; Swanson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@awjoneslaw","twitter_site":"@awjoneslaw","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jones &amp; Swanson","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/"},"author":{"name":"Jones &amp; Swanson","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf"},"headline":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds","datePublished":"2016-07-20T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-08-29T21:12:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/"},"wordCount":431,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg","articleSection":["Safety Tips","Summer Safety"],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/","name":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2016-07-20T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-08-29T21:12:12+00:00","description":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_153645101-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1800,"caption":"Shutterstock 153645101 scaled"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/summer-safety-hidden-dangers-of-playgrounds\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer","item":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Safety Tips","item":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/category\/safety-tips\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Summer Safety: Hidden Dangers of Playgrounds"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/","name":"Jones & Swanson","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization","name":"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png","width":311,"height":140,"caption":"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw","https:\/\/x.com\/awjoneslaw","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jonesandswanson\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jones-swanson\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf","name":"Jones &amp; Swanson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jones &amp; Swanson"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}