The parents of a boy who was killed, his skull crushed by a net, campaigned to make the parks and playgrounds in their town safe. Their main effort was getting the town to anchor, replace or remove unsafe soccer goals and to make sure portable ones were put away when not in use. They wrote to provincial soccer associations who in turn sent out warnings to 450,000 members with instructions on how to secure the goals. But, nothing is in place to verify that the instructions have been followed. In Canada we have no reliable statistics.
Many accidents go unrecorded.
Children will play on these nets and accidents happen. You cannot blame the children. Proper inspections are not enforced. There's voluntary guidelines set out by the Canadian Soccer Association , but that is it. The important thing is that the goals should be put up properly in the first place.