Public Swimming Pool Incident Summary
The death of Abigail Taylor as the result of injuries suffered at the Minneapolis Golf Club pool in St. Louis Park is perhaps the most well known of these. There have been at least nine serious pool-related incidents in the past nine months:
- June 2007 (PDF: 31KB/2 pages): Abigail Taylor suffers injuries at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park.
- July 2007 (PDF: 34KB/2 pages): 20 cases of cryptosporidiosis diagnosed in people who swam at a pool in Red Wing.
- September 2007 (PDF: 38KB/3 pages): 58 cases of cryptosporidiosis diagnosed in people who visited a hotel water park in Otsego.
- November 2007 (PDF: 38KB/3 pages): Six cases of otitis externa (“swimmers ear”) diagnosed in guests at a Vadnais Heights hotel likely due to inadequate chlorine levels in the pool and lack of managerial over-site.
- November 2007 (PDF: 24KB/1 pages): Five cases of dermatitis, a skin infection, diagnosed in guests at a Roseville hotel likely due to inadequate chlorine levels in the pool and lack of managerial over-site.
- November-December 2007 (PDF: 35KB/2 pages): 31 cases of cryptosporidiosis diagnosed in people who swam at a pool in Mankato.
- December 2007 (PDF: 23 KB/1 pages): Three people suffer chemical burns at a hotel pool in Chaska due to improperly balanced pool chemistry and lack of managerial over-site.
- February 2008: A 17 year-old drowns in a Bloomington hotel pool after heavy drinking. (There is no summary report for this incident.)
- March 2008: Thirty-eight students and staff at Rocori High School reported illness after a swimming pool pump was turned on while a class was in the pool area. (There is no summary report for this incident.)