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With summer activities in full swing, swimming pool injuries bounced back to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, according to ValuePenguin. With pandemic restrictions in effect and pools closed to the public, swimming pool injuries dropped 31.5%, from 152,970 in 2019 to 127,907 in 2020. In 2021, that number climbed by 19.6% to 152,970 in 2021, then by another 20.6% to reach 184,417 injuries in 2022.
Over the last decade, swimming pool injuries that required an emergency department visit have most commonly fallen into the following categories:
- Swimming (activity, apparel or equipment): 47.4%
- Swimming pools, not specified: 33.2%
- Built-in swimming pools: 10.7%
- Diving or diving boards: 3.8%
Other, less frequent, injury categories included swimming pool equipment, portable swimming pools, above-ground pools (excluding portable pools) and swimming pool slides.
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Brittney Meredith-Miller
Brittney Meredith-Miller is assistant editor of PropertyCasualty360.com. She can be reached at [email protected].
