Accidents - Containers - Year 2008 - Lower Leg

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,186
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	21
6-15 years old:	322
16-25 years old:	205
26-50 years old:	723
50+ years old:	913

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/26/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
HEAVY BOXES FELL ON LEG DX: RT LOWER LEG CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Containers
PT WAS MOVING A HEAVY BOX 2 DAYS AGO AND NOW C/O FOOT PAIN AND SWELLING . DX: LE EDEMA ETIOL UNCLEAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2008	Age: 60 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Containers
PT WITHI SPRAINED LEG WHILE CARRYING A HEAVY BOX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2008	Age: 86 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
LOWER LEG CT-TRIPPED ON A BOX-FELL-@ CHURCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2008	Age: 90 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
BOX FELL ON HER LEG LACERATION RIGHT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/17/2008	Age: 83 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Containers
83 YOF TORE LOWER LEG SKIN ON STORAGE CRATE AT HOME AVULSION LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2008	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Containers, Ceilings and walls
TRIPPED OVER BOX IN KITCHEN - HIT WALL CALF STRAIN / TEAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/08/2008	Age: 25 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Knives
PT DROPPED A BOX OF ASSORTED KNIVES ONTO LOWER LEG LACERATION LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2008	Age: 83 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Containers, Stairs or steps
C/O LOWER LEG PAIN AFTER LIFTING HEAVY BOXES UPSTAIRS ON FRIDAY >>MUSCLE STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Containers, Scissors
DX STAB WOUND, R LOWER LEG, R/O ARTERIAL INJ: PT TRY'G TO OPEN BOX & STAB WD TO R CALF W SCISSORS, REPORTED THRU-&-THRU WD
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/28/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Containers
LEG STR. PT STRAINED LEG WHEN MOVING BOXES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Containers, Floors or flooring materials
PT DROPPED A BOX OF FLOOR TILING ONTO LOWER LEG ON FRIDAY CAUSED AN ABR ASION WHICH GOT INFECTED TREATED FOR CELLULITIS TO LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/24/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Containers
INJURED LOWER LEG WHILE LIFTING HEAVY BOX AT HOME, HAS LOWER LEG SPRAIN .
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/18/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
LAC TO LEG WHEN STRUCK ON A CONTAINER AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2008	Age: 16 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
LAC TO R SHIN, PT WAS AT A WINERY, AND HAD BARREL RACING, CUT SHIN ON BOLT FROM BARREL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2008	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Knives
PT WAS CUT AS HE WALKED NEXT TO A BOX OF KNIVES. DX: L LEG LAC 1 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2008	Age: 92 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Containers
PT SUSTAINED BLUNT TRAUMA TO RT LEG, STRUCK IT ON CARTON AT STORE DX - RT LOWER LEG MULTIPLE SKIN TEARS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/04/2008	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
63 YO MALE HAD CORNER OF BOX FALL ONTO LEFT SHIN LACERATION LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Containers, Refrigerators
47 YO MALE HAS PAIN TO LEFT CALF AFTER LIFTING BOX INTO REFRIGERATOR LOWER LEG PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/16/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Containers
WENT TO FULL BODY MESSAGE TODAY, ALSO ADMITS LIFTING HEAVY BOXES, NOW W ITH LEG PAIN/SPASM NOT ABLE TO BEAR WEIGHT ON IT>>LEG SPASMS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/08/2008	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Containers
40 YO MALE CRUSHED LEG BETWEEN FORKLIFT AND BOX FRACTURE TIBIA
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/01/2008	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
FELL AND STRUCK LT LOWER LEG ON A BOX DX LT LEG CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Saws
R INNER CALF LAC/31YOM AT HOME WAS MOVING A BOX THAT HAD SAW IN IT & SA W CAME THROUGHT BOX SLICING INTO PT'S LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2008	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
LT LEG CONT: WHILE DOING LANDSCAPING AT HOME BOX FULL OF ROCKS TIPPED AND FELL, HIT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2008	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Containers
PT HIT LEG ON MILK CRATE. DX; LEG PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2008	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Containers
25 YOM WAS IN A STORE AND A LARGE BOX FELL ONTO HIS LEFT DISTAL FIBULA CAUSING A FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2008	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
50 GAL DRUM CAUGHT FIRE & EXPLODED AND PT WAS THROWN 15 FT ON FRIDAY. NO FD. DX: HTN, L LEG CONT, RHABDOMYOLYSIS MILD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/28/2008	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
LOWER LEG LAC-TRIPPED-FELL-HIT A BOX-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2008	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Containers
FATHER STS PT FELL ASLEEP W/ CALF NEAR A WARM IRON BOX BURN FIRST DEGREE LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2008	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
PT A BOX FELL ON LEG AT DAUGHTERS HOUSE DX// CONTUSION LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2008	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Floors or flooring materials
CUT LEG ON CRATE IN MIDDLE OF FLOOR AT GAS STATION/MARKET. DX LOWER LEG LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2008	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
RUNNING AT CHURCH RAN INTO A BOX, CUTTING LOWER LEG. DX-LAC. LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/26/2008	Age: 59 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
59YOF WAS HOME SLIPPED ON A BOX INJURING LEFT LOWER LEG; LEG ABRASIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/19/2008	Age: 88 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
TRIPPED&FELL SCRAPING SHIN AGAINST ?WICKER BASKET >>AVULSION/LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2008	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
PT JUMPING UP AND DOWN ON A BOX AND SLIPPED SUSTAINED AN ABRASION TO L OWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2008	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
LOWER LEG LAC-WATER TANK FELL ON LEG-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/07/2008	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
PT CARRYING A BOX AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2008	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Alcohol
PT INJURED WHEN FELL INTO RECYCABLE CONTAINER IN FRAT HOUSE WHILE INTOX ICATED DX: LOWER LEG LAC
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/03/2008	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Containers
PT WAS LIFTING A HEAVY BOX AND FELT A POP IN RIGHT CALF, RIGHT CALF MUSCLE SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Knives
DX L LEG LAC: ACC CUT HER L THIGH WITH A "GERBER" KNIFE WHILE OPENING BOXES WHEN KNIGE SLIPPE AND CUT THROUGH HER FATIGUES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
PT TRIPPED OVER BASKET AT HOME CAUSED LAC TO LOWER R LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2008	Age: 75 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
BASKET FEL ON LEG AT HOME DEPOT LACERATION LOWER LEG #
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/18/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
FELL AT HOME, HIT LEG ON BOX DX; RLL LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/09/2008	Age: 80 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
WAS SHOPPING AND A BOX FELL ON LEG DX: LOWER LEG LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Knives with replaceable blades
RT LOWER LEG LACERATION.PT WAS OPEING A BOX WITH A BOX CUTTER AND LACER ATED LOWER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/04/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
DX ABRASION, LLE/STASIS DERMATITIS/HX OF CELLULITIS: ONSET AFTER PT SCRATCHED RLE ON A BOX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2008	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
FELL OVER A BOX NOT SPECIFIED TYPE CUT RT LEG DX LACERATION TO RT LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/21/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Containers
JUMPED OFF BOX DX SMALL TIB FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2008	Age: 88 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
TRIPPED OVER BOXES @ HOME&FELL SCRAPING LEG >> LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers, Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations
PATIENT CLIMBING ON BOX IN CLOSET, STEPPED THROUGH BOX CUTTING LOWER LE G ON EDGE OF PICTURE FRAME; LEG LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/21/2008	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Containers
JUMPING EXERCISES AT SCHOOL SLIPPED AND LEG CUT BY BOX HE WAS JUMPING F ROM CAUSING LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
PT STS POSS SCRAPED R SHIN ON A CRATE DX BILATERAL LOWER EXT LYMPHEDEMA,SKIN ABRASION L EXT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/29/2008	Age: 20 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Containers
DX R ACHILLES TENDONITIS: INJURED R ACHILLES TENDONITIS LIFTING BOXES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Containers, Exercise equipment
PT C/O BOX CONTAINING TREADMILL FELL ON HER LEG AT A STORE JUST PRIOR TO ARRIVAL - DX NONDISPLACED SPIRAL X OF RT TIBIA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2008	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Containers
PT DROPPED A BOX ON LT LOWER LEG DX: CONTUSION LT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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