Accidents - Swimming pools - Year 2003 - Lower Leg

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,318
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	96
6-15 years old:	652
16-25 years old:	105
26-50 years old:	377
50+ years old:	85

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 09/25/2003	Age: 26 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: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
PT JUMPED IN POOL AND BUMPED LEG ON SIDE OF STEP DX LAC SHIN AND POSITI VE ETOH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2003	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Swimming pools
TWISTED LEG TRYING TO SIT ON THE EDGE OF THE POOL DX: LOWER LEG SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2003	Age: 4 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: Swimming pools
4 YOM JUMPED IN POOL SPRAIN TIBIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2003	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools
PT JUMPED INTO THE SHALLOW END OF A POOL AND INJURED LEG DX: FRACTURE RIGHT TIBIA & FIBULA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/24/2003	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools
RT TIB/FIB FRACTURE.PT JUMPED INTO A POOL AND BOTH FEET HIT BOTTOM AND PT INJURED RT LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2003	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools
PATIENT SLIPPED IN POOL YESTERDAY, NOW LIMPING; TODDLER'S FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2003	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
" I SLIPPED AT THE POOL AND CUT LEG " DX: LOWER LEG LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/07/2003	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
JUMPED INTO A POOLAND HIT A BOLT,LACERATION TO R LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/06/2003	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Swimming pools
INSECT BITE INFECTED - 22 YOF SUSTAINED MULTIPLE BUG BITES TO RIGHT LOW ER LEG WHILE AT SOMEONE'S POOL, LEGS AND KNEES PAINFUL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2003	Age: 16 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
LACERATION LOWER LEG - 16 YOF FELL ON SIDE OF POOL STRIKING RIGHT LOWER LEG AGAINST LIP OF POOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/30/2003	Age: 84 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: Swimming pools
WALKING TOWARD POOL TO SWIM AND WALKED INTO SIDE OF WOOD PILE HITTING L EAD;SKIN TEAR TO LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2003	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
FELL ON EDGE OF POOL DX. LOWER LEG LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2003	Age: 11 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: Swimming pools
CONTUSED LEG ON SWIMMING POOL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2003	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
FELL GETTING OUT OF POOL AT HOME LEG LAC / CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/17/2003	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
PT C/O LAC TO LFT LOWER LEG. PT FELL AT SWIMMING POOL. DX LACERATION TO LFT LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/07/2003	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools, Diving or diving boards
FRACTURE TIBIA UPPER END CLOSED - 15 YOM INJURED HIS LEFT KNEE WHEN HE WAS DIVING OFF BOARD INTO POOL, SWELLING NOTED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/07/2003	Age: 14 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: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
PT SLIPPED AND HIT HIS LEG ON THE EDGE OF A POOL. DX LEFT LOWER LEG LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/05/2003	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Swimming pools
THIS AM DEVELOPED A CRAMP IN RLL WHILE AT THE WAVE POOL, STILL HAS MUSC LE PAIN. DX. R CALF MUSCLE CRAMPS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/05/2003	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools
PT FELL INTO EMPTY SWIMMING POOL, INJURING LOWER LEG DX FX LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/05/2003	Age: 41 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: Puncture
Product: Swimming pools
LYING BY HER POOL AND WAS BITTEN BY SOME SORT OF INSECT,POSSIBLY A TICK TO CALF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/04/2003	Age: 38 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Swimming pools
INJURED LEG ON THE SIDE OF A POOL LEFT TIBIA CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2003	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
PATIENT FELL AT THE SWIMMING POOL. DX-LACERATION RIGHT LOWER LEG, 4CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2003	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools
SLIPPED TRIPPED ON SWIMMING POOL AT HOME LANDING ON L ANKLE INJ LOWER L EG DX L DISTAL FIBULAR FX L LEG STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2003	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
PATIENT SLIPPED AND CUT LEG ON SIDE OF POOL; LEG LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2003	Age: 29 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: Swimming pools
SLIPPED JUMPING INTO POOL DX: LOWER LEG CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/28/2003	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Swimming pools
PT HIT LEG ON SWIMMING POOL EDGE. DX: HEMATOMA L LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2003	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
PT FELL WHILE RUNNING TO NEIGHBORHOOD POOL WITH RT LEG LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2003	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Swimming pools
PT INJURED LOWER LEG SWIMMING. DX LOWER LEG SPRIAN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/22/2003	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools, Stairs or steps
PT. JUMPED INTO WATER AT POOL AND HIT A STEP IN POOL FRACTURING HIS LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2003	Age: 11 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Swimming pools
PT SWIMMING AT ***-LAKE MADE INTO CITY POOL-JUMPED OFF ROCK AND INJURED LEG. DX LAC R SHIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/17/2003	Age: 22 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: Swimming pools, Swimming pool equipment
LT LOWER LEG CT-INJURED ON SWIMMING POOL LADDER-GETTING OUT OF POOL-@ FRIEND'S HOUSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/17/2003	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Swimming pools
PT IN *** FELL GETTING INTO POOL & SLIPPED. C/O PAIN RIGHT CALF. DX:RIG HT CALF CONTUSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/16/2003	Age: 36 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: Swimming pools
PT TRIPPED AND FELL ON POOL EDGE. D: LOWER LEG CONTUSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2003	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools
PT WAS THROWN IN THE AIR AND HIT LOWER LEG OFF OF THE SIDE OF THE POOL DX LOWER LEG FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/08/2003	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Swimming pools
23 Y.O. W MALE W/HEMATOMA TO CALF. PT WAS PUSHED INTO SHALLOW END OF PO OL & STRUCK LEG ON BOTTOM OF THE POOL. E9179
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/03/2003	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Swimming pools
FRACTURED LEG ON SWIMMING POOL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2003	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Swimming pools
PT BIT BY ANTS YESTERDAY @ SWIMMING POOL. TODAY BITES LOOK INFECTED. DX:INSECT BITES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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