Public Safety Alerts
Avoid Scalding Your Child!
Every year, young children and the elderly are horribly scalded by dangerously hot bath water. Sometimes a water heater is set higher than is safe so that a household has more hot water for showers. Extra hot water at shower time is not worth the risk.
The average person bathes in water with a temperature of 105-110 degrees. Every additional five degrees makes a big difference. If the hot water is heated to 120 degrees, it takes a full 10 minutes to cause a third degree bum. If the hot water temperature increases to 140 degrees, it will cause a third degree burn in less than five seconds.
Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. urges you to check to see that your hot water heater is set at a safe temperature. Unfortunately we have had to represent numerous children who have been terribly injured in this manner.
The Dangers of Lead Paint: Tell Your Friends and Family
Peeling Paint in a building built before 1960 probably contains dangerous levels of lead. Lead paint is very dangerous to young children and pregnant women. Like a loaded gun in your home which is not safeguarded, lead paint can cause brain injury, coma and even death.
Help spread the word. Attorneys from our office have been regularly making presentations to educate parents on the dangers of lead poisoning and their legal rights at PTA meetings, DayCare Centers, and early Childhood Centers. If we have not spoken at your school or you are a member of an organization that would like us to make a presentation, please contact Marcia Stevelman of our office to make arrangements. If you know a child who has been lead poisoned please have his parent or guardian call Meryl Sanders-Viener, Esq. to find out their rights.
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