Baby reportedly in critical condition after nearly drowning in bucket of beans
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A 1-year-old was reported to be in critical condition after falling into a bucket of baked beans and being found unresponsive by family members, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department reported Tuesday.
The incident was called in about 3:30 p.m. from a home on the 8700 block of Smith Street in the small community of Grayson. Emergency responders performed lifesaving efforts on the child, who was flown to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Josh Clayton said that last he heard, the child was recovering but remained in critical condition.
No information was immediately available on the gender of the child, where the bucket of beans was sitting or how long the child might have gone unnoticed after falling into it.
Neither is it known if the beans were hot or had cooled, but a brief watch report said the child’s condition was a result of drowning, not being burned, Clayton said.
Though the watch report refers to baked beans, it’s also possible what the child fell into was a bucket of dry beans being soaked for cooking.
Because the Sheriff’s Department was the assisting agency to an ambulance provider, no full report was made, the sergeant said. The brief watch report on the incident shows the family was cooperative, he said.
Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 4, according to the National Drowning Prevention Alliance.
“Young children are especially at risk,” says the KidsHealth website. “They can drown in less than 2 inches of water. That means drowning can happen in a sink, toilet bowl, fountains, buckets, inflatable pools, or small bodies of standing water around your home, such as ditches filled with rainwater.”
Children 14 and younger account for one in five drowning deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. “For every child who dies from drowning, another five receive emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries.”
This story was originally published February 11, 2020 at 8:52 AM.
