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Volume 356:2655-2656 June 21, 2007 Number 25
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Sudden Death from Collapsing Sand Holes

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To the Editor: During the summer-recreation and beach season, we believe it is timely to underscore a potential but underrecognized safety risk associated with leisure activities in open-sand environments.1,2 We assembled a series of 52 documented fatal and nonfatal cases, occurring primarily in the past 10 years, in which persons were submerged after the collapse of a dry-sand hole excavated for recreational purposes. These cases were assembled prospectively and retrospectively and were identified from news-media accounts, personal communications, Internet searches, and the LexisNexis database. Detailed information was obtained by interviewing rescuers and witnesses, when possible. The victims ranged in age . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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