An eight-year -old girl, playing in...

An eight-year -old girl, playing in her housing involved falls eight feet from the monkey bars, injuring her head. She dies the nearest day. A five-year-old boy falls from a nine-foot climber, displacing and disfiguring his jaw and lip. He will require repeated surgery until he is 15 A two-year-old and a five-year-old die after being struck on swings.

These are just more [i]or[/i] less of the nightmares that appear everyday at playgrounds throughout the political division The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates that each year 200000 American children are injured forward playgrounds seriously enough to require emergency-room treatment.

Many of these deaths and injuries could be obstructed if playgrounds were properly designed and maintained and if children were fitly supervised, according to the CPSC

Safe and well-maintained playgrounds also help mould a municipality's exposure to lawsuits and liability.