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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 804
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2007 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags |
| RIGHT FOREARM LAC, PT WAS MOVING BAGS IN GARAGE AFTER SHOPPING AND FELL INJURING ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bags |
| INJURED ARM WHILE LIFTING HEAVY BAGS LEFT FOREARM PAIN # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2007 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Bags |
| FX FOREARMK,FELL OFF DUFFLE BAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags |
| PT WAS CUT THROWING TRASH BAG INTO PICKUP AT HOME. DX. LAC L FA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2007 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Bags |
| PT WAS HAULING SOME HEAVY BAGS OF TRASH ACROSS THE YARD AND FELL INTO A HOLE FRACTURED LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2007 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags |
| PATIENT INJURED HIS FOREARM LACERATION ON SOME BROKEN GLASS WHILE TAKING OUT THE TRASH BAG. DX-FOREARM LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags |
| HAD SUTURED LAC ON ARM WHICH REOPENED WHEN CARRYING HEAVY BAG THAT FELL ONTO WOUND RELACERATING FOREARM,BLUNT TRAUMA TO ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2007 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bags |
| 75 YO FEMALE HAS RIGHT ARM PAIN AFTER CARRYING HEAVY BAGS LEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/21/2007 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags |
| CUT FOREARM ON GLASS IN TRASHBAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bags |
| PAIN TO ARM FROM CARRYING A BAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Bags |
| LEFT ARN STR. PT STRAINED ARM WHEN LIFTING A HEAVY DIAPER BAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2007 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Bags, Stairs or steps |
| FOREARM CT-CARRYING BAGS UP STEPS-FELL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Bags, Fertilizers |
| LIFTING A BAG OF FERTILIZER LEFT ULNA STYLOID FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Bags |
| PTS SON THREW HER A 50 POUND BAG OF FEED AND CAUGHT IT FRACTURED LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2007 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Bags |
| PATIENT TRIPPED OVER A BAG IN HER YARD AND FELL, C/O WRIST, RIBS, SHOULDER PAIN. DX-FRACTURE EFT DISTLAL RADIUS, CHEST WALL CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2007 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Bags |
| 81 YO M AVULSION TO LOWER ARM CARRYING PACKAGES AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKET AND FELL* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags |
| PT STS THROWING AWAY BAG OF TRASH,CUT R FOREARM WITH UNKNOWN OBJECT DX 5CM LACERATION TO R ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags |
| PLAYING & FELL LANDING ON GARBAGE BAG WITH OBJECT THAT CUT ARM, LACERAT ION ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Bags |
| STRAIN L LWR ARM, PT CARRIED A HEAV BAG & SUST INJURY IN THE SCHOOL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Bags, Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT TAKING OUT TRASH IN THE GARBAGE CAN AND THERE WAS A PIECE OF GLASS P ROTRUDING FROM THE BAG SUSTAINED A LACERATIION TO LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/10/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Bags, Fertilizers |
| PT WAS LIFTING 50 POUND BAGS OF FERTILIZER TWO DAYS AGO STRAINED LEFT LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Bags |
| PUNCTURE R FOREARM, PT GOT INJURY W/SOMETHING FROM A GARBAGE BAGAT HOM E. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2007 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Bags, Food skewers |
| PT ACCIDENTLY POKED SELF WITH A WOODEN SKEWER THAT WAS IN A GARBAGE BA G PUNCTURE WOUND FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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