On September 30 at a public junior high school in Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture, a female student (12) from the handball club entered the track and field club’s shot put practice area to retrieve a ball, and was struck in the head by a 4-5 kg shot put thrown by a male student, suffering a serious injury that fractured her skull. The student is hospitalized but able to talk, and the school has set up an investigative committee to look into the cause of the accident. In threads on 5ch, many users pointed out that similar throwing-event accidents have happened repeatedly in the past, while opinions split between those blaming the carelessness of the student who wandered into the practice area and those questioning the school’s responsibility for failing to secure a safe practice environment.
10/2 (Fri) 20:06
The Kasugai City Board of Education in Aichi Prefecture announced on the 2nd that a first-year female junior high school student (12) suffered a serious injury, fracturing her skull, after being struck in the head by a shot put during club activities at a city junior high school in late September. The student was taken to the hospital and remains hospitalized, but is reportedly able to speak. The school has set up an investigative committee to look into the cause of the accident.
According to the board of education, at around 4:30 p.m. on September 30, a female student from the handball club entered the track and field club’s shot put practice area on the school grounds to retrieve a ball that had rolled in, and was struck in the head by an iron shot put weighing roughly 4 to 5 kg, thrown by a male student. The school reported the accident to the Kasugai Police Station on October 1.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
ends up hitting a student.
That's just way too stupid at this point.
It's entirely on the school.
Something's seriously messed up here.
The club advisor's probably getting fired over this.
Did an elementary schooler write it?
Doing shot put or hammer throw on a regular schoolyard is just too dangerous.
Yeah, throwing a shot put around
doesn't exactly contribute to
the healthy development of young people.
She basically survived only because it was a scrawny middle schooler's weak throw.
> A female handball club student entered the track team's shot put practice area on the school grounds to retrieve a ball that had rolled in
Way too careless on her part.
winning a medal for throwing stuff around is pretty pointless, isn't it?
Go do something more worthwhile.
LOL, all you do is throw it.
Can't even aim it at a target.
Kind of disrespectful to baseball, honestly.
Why can't it just be running, hurdles, and long jump?
Javelin too.
Probably a holdover from hunting, huh?
This isn't really about the shot put specifically—
same thing could've happened with a soccer shot
or getting hit by a softball swing.
Nah,
the school's also seriously at fault for not securing a safe area.
Funny how that comment's getting upvoted lol
What's even fun about throwing an iron ball around in the first place?
They're idiots, so they get obsessed with throwing a pointless iron ball lol
Looking back, it's terrifying how many things we did as kids that could've easily turned into major accidents—
doing a Skylab Hurricane by the poolside, or a brainbuster on a gym mat. (pro-wrestling moves)
Background and Points of Debate
Throwing events like shot put and hammer throw are often held in a limited corner of the schoolyard, and accidents in which students from other clubs wander into the practice area during club activities have occurred at schools around the country before. In this case, the accident happened when a female student entered the track and field club’s practice area to retrieve a ball from her own club, and opinions in the thread were split between those pointing to the fault of the student for entering a dangerous area, and those questioning the school’s management responsibility for failing to safely isolate the throwing area. Including whether charges such as professional negligence resulting in injury will be filed, where responsibility for the accident ultimately lies will depend on the prefectural police’s ongoing investigation, and at this point it remains unclear whether the school or the student bears greater fault.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “Shot Put Hits Student in the Head, Fractures Skull: 7th-Grade Girl Seriously Injured During Club Activities in Kasugai, Aichi”.
