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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,294
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| 18 YOF FELL INTO POOL TABLE LAC FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| INJURED FINGER ON A POOL TABLE DX: FINGER CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT WAS PLAYING AROUND AND GOT PICKED UP W/POOL STICK TO OS AROUND 11:00 PM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2002 | Age: 22 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: Billiards or pool |
| PT SHOOTING POOL WAS BENDING OVER THE BILLIARS TABLE STRAINED LOWER BAC K |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT.INJ.RT.CHEEK AT FRIENDS HOUSE WHEN HIT BY A BILLIARD BALL. DX; LAC. RT.CHEEK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT HIT EYE ON POOL TABLE AT BAR. DX: FACIAL LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Billiards or pool, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT AT A PUBLIC PLACE WHEN A CUE BALL BOUNCED OFF THE BILLIARDS TABLE AN D BOUNCED ON THE FLOOR STRIKING RIGHT ANKLE CONTUSION ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| NASAL CONTUSION.PT WAS PLAYING POOL AND WAS STRUCK IN THE NOSE WITH A P OOL BALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT IN BAR, INTOXICATED, HIT ON BACK OF HEAD WITH A POOL CUE, CLOSED HEA D INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Billiards or pool, Floors or flooring materials |
| MOVING POOL TABLE YESTERDAY AT ***, FELT PAIN IN RIGHTLOWER BACK, FELL TO KNEES ON THE FLOOR. DX ACUTE LOW BACK STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PLAYING POOL AND FINGER WAS HIT BY THE BALL INJ IT;LEFT WITHOUT TREATME NT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 09/08/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT LIFTED POOL TABLE TOP. DX: LOW BACK STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| CONTUSION L INDEX FINGER - HIT FINGER ON SIDE OF POOL TABLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| HIT RT. INDEX FINGER WHILE PLAYING POOL CAUSING CONTUSION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT HELPING A FRIEND MOVE A POOL TABLE STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| FOOT CONTUSION - LEFT FOOT INJURED BY A THROWN BILLIARD BALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2002 | 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: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| 20YOF-SUBCONJUCTIVAL HEMORRAHAGE LEFT EYE-HIT IN EYE BY POOL BALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PATIENT HIT ON HEAD WITH CUE BALL LAST NIGHT. D: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| LEFT SHOULDER PAIN, ONSET 2 NIGHTS AGO WHILE SHOOTING POOL. DX LEFT SHOULDER STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| DX HEMATOMA RIGHT GREAT TOE: DROPPED POOL TABLE ON TOE WHILE MOVINGIT AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| HIT IN MOUTH WITH BILLIARD BALL - LACERATION LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| RT FOOT LAC-MISTAKINGLY KICKED A POOL TABLE AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PATIENT FELL OFF A POOL TABLE AT HOME. DX-ACUTE STRAIN LEFT KNEE WITH DISLOCATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PATIENT HAD A POOL STICK TO BREAK OFF, EMBEDDED IN HIS HAND. FX-FOREIGN BODY LEFT HAND, COMPLEX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| 19 YOM HIT W/ POOL CUE LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| DROPPED POOL TABLE ON LEFT FOOT CRUSH INJURY LEFT GREAT TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN EYE WITH A POOL STICK WHILE PLAYING POOL. DX-CONJUNCTIVAL INJURY LEFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PLAYING POOL CUE BALL HIT EYE NASAL FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| WAS @ BAR DRINKING, FELL BACKWARD & HIT HEAD AGAINST POOL TABLE. SCALPL AC & ETOH INTOXICATION@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT WAS HIT W/POOL BALL AT BAR. DX: FACIAL CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| TRIPPED OVER CAT HIT HAND ON POOL TABLE - FINGER FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| HAD POOL BALL CUPPED IN HAND WHEN HIT WITH ANOTHER POOL BALL LAST NIGHT. DX. FX 4 5TH MIDDLE PHALANX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Billiards or pool |
| PT PLAYING BILLIARDS LAST EVENING BENDING OVER THE TABLE STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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