Button battery ingestion risk in children's environments
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 24 Oct 2014 and 7 Mar 2018.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“Concern remains that such batteries are sold in supermarkets and other retail establishments and are often on display at a level that would enable small children to gain access to them whilst unobserved.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“My officials will give consideration as to how these professionals can best be supported to use this information to make parents and child carers aware of this issue”
- 3 years 4 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“The button battery was likely to have come from a remote control. Button batteries once ingested can lead to catastrophic consequences for a child.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2014 → 2018Venkata Kagga3 years 4 months after Eliza Bashir · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that button batteries are accessible to young children and can cause serious harm if ingested. The earlier report focuses on retail display, while the later report focuses on household devices like remote controls.
Eliza Bashir · 24 Oct 2014
“Concern remains that such batteries are sold in supermarkets and other retail establishments and are often on display at a level that would enable small children to gain access to them whilst unobserved.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Venkata Kagga · 7 Mar 2018
“The button battery was likely to have come from a remote control. Button batteries once ingested can lead to catastrophic consequences for a child.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action
“My officials will give consideration as to how these professionals can best be supported to use this information to make parents and child carers aware of this issue”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Department of Health and Social Care at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2018 | 0.69 | 0.32 | Identical · 0.90 | different |
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