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25 | On October 13, 2022 at 10:25AM Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Rosie Breault made an unannounced inspection for the purpose of conducting a Case Management - Incident inspection. LPA conducted a Covid-19 prescreening and no exposure on site. LPA met with facility Director Crista Trujillo and discussed the purpose of the visit. LPA and licensee conducted a tour of the facility inside and out.
On 9/13/2022, licensee contacted Community Care Licensing (CCL) to self-report an incident of "C1 was walking by a climber (a little plastic slide) a C2 dropped a pot (metal) hitting C1 on the forehead (between the eyebrows)."
Director stated metal pot is used for play in the mud kitchen. C1 walked over near the plastic slide and looked up, and C2 was up on slide with pot in hand and accidentally dropped pot on head of C1. Teacher was present and walked to remove pot from C1 and was too late, already dropped. C1 started bleeding between the eyebrows, staff member applied pressure, and comforted and separated child. Another staff member attempted to contact parents and emergency contact to no avail and determined to contact paramedics. Remaining children stayed in the yard, while C1 was escorted by staff to be cared for inside classroom. Children did not seem upset and director is under the impress they did not witness paramedics treating C1. Child did not have a concussion and was awake during entire time. Director escorted child to hospital and parent’s arrived at hospital roughly 45 minutes after incident. Doctor applied one stich to child and child went home that day. Father returned alone two days later to facility to do a walk through of what happened, and director assisted in. Father stated he wanted to make it clear that he trusted staff and that C1 would be returning. Father took photos of pot and director removed large pots from play yard. Director did not notify parents of C2 that pot was dropped on head. Director informed LPA that all parents were notified via Brightwheel that paramedics were on scene. During LPA inspection, LPA determined pots (some heavy) to be unsafe for children play time and visually observed director remove all metal pots and pans from play yard, offered assistance, and advised director if wanted to continue that type of play, to research plastic kitchen equipment.
Per Title 22 Divison 12 101438.2 (d) a technical advisory was issued to facility and provided to director.
The Notice of Site Visit was posted.
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