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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 387
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/05/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| FELL AND HIT HEAD ON DRYER AT HOME. DX CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/17/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| FELL ON DRYER;DX CHI, LACERATED FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT WAS FELT DIZZY LEANED AGAINST DRYER & FELL ONTO FLOOR AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO SCALP/ SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/15/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| 12 YOM HIT HEAD ON HAND DRYER IN BATHROOM AT CRISIS CENTER SUSTAINING A LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2008 | Age: 3 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| FELL OFF CLOTHES DRYER AND HIT HEAD ON DRYER DX: SKULL FX; CHI; ADMITTED |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PATIENT TRIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HEAD ON CLOTHER DRYER AT HOME. DX-CHI. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| CHI. PT BENT OVER TO PICK SOMETHING UP AND HIT HEAD ON DRYER DOOR AT LA UNDRAMAT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| RAN INTO DRYER;DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF THE SCALP BY STRIKING AGAINST A CLOTHES DRY ER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| FELL AT HOME AND HIT HEAD ON DRYER -LOC DX- HEAD CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| HIT HEAD ON DRYER DOOR;DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| FOREHEAD / SCALP LAC. HIT FOREHEAD ON DRYER DOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| CONTUSION TO HEAD WHEN STRUCK BY A DRYER WHEN MOVING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2008 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL OFF DRYER TO FLOOR/CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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