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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 797
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| DRYER FELL ON FINGER DX. FINGER CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Doorsills or frames |
| CARRYING DRYER, BUMPED HAND AGAINST DOOR FRAME/ CONTUSION LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT GETTING A DRYER FROM THE BACK OF HIS PICK UP TRUCK SUSTAINED A LACER ATION TO RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| L UPPER ARM PAIN FROM SHOULDER TO ELBOW AFTER PICKING UP A DRYER W/ANOTHER PERSON DX: L SHOULDER STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN MOVING A DRYER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| 24 Y/O M INJURED L FOREARM WHEN DRYER FELL ON HIM AT HOME. DX; L FOREARM CRUSH INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| CRUSHED LT HAND WHILE MOVING A DRYER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT STRAINED HIS ARM WHEN LIFTING A CLOTHES DRYER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| LACERATED FINGER ON BOTTOM OF A CLOTHES DRYER WHILE LIFTING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Light bulbs |
| PATIENT TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE GETTING OFF CLOTHES DRYER AFTER CHANGING LIGHT BULB. DX-SPRAIN FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2005 | Age: 23 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 LOSS CONSCIOUSNESS AFTER SHE HIT HER HEAD ON AN OPEN DRYER DOOR IN HER APT. DX - BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA, MILD FACIAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT SLAMMED HAND IN DRYER DOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT C/O LOW BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING CLOTHES DRYER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| LIFTED A DRYER TODAY LEFT GROIN STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| CLOTHES DRYER CAUGHT FIRE IN PATIENT'S HOME, INHALED SMOKE, ASTHMA ATTACK. DX-SMOKE INHALATION. (NOT DOCUMENTED IF FIRE DEPT. ATTENDED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| CLOTHES DRYER FELL ON HAND DX. HAND FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT STATES, THAT THE CLOTHES DRYER SPARKED WHILE TOUCHING A KNOB&FELT SU DDENT SHAR PAIN IN HAND&ARMS SUSTAINED" F.ARM PAIN"+" ELECTRICAL INJ" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PATIENT SMASHED THUMB WHILE MOVING DRYER, DRYER FELL ON THUMB; THUMB CO NTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| 25 YOM CUT HAND ON DRYER LAC HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT INJURED MOVING DRYER; NECK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| STATES HE WAS LIFTING DRYER AND INJURED BACK DX LOWER TRUNK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| FELL INTO CLOTHES DRYER AT HOME,CONTUSION TO UPPER TRUNK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| FRACTURE TOE - 17 C/O LEFT 5TH TOE PAIN AFTER RUNNING INTO THE DRYER IN BASEMENT OF HIS HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| RT SHOULDER STRAIN-SUS INJ TO RT SHOULDER WHILE MOVING A DRYER YESTERDA Y. PAIN GETTING PROGRESSIVELY WORSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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