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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 226
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/07/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT FELL BACKWARDS IN WHEELCHAIR HITTING HEAD ON FLOOR AT HOME; SCA LP HEMATOMA, CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Furniture |
| SCALP LAC, PT WAS ROCKING BACK AND FORTH IN WHEELCHAIR AND FELL OUT STR IKING HEAD ON A PIECE OF FURNITURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials |
| CHI-BRIEF LOC-FELL FROM HER WHEELCHAIR & HIT THE FLOOR-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PATIENT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR. HE FELL BACKWARDS. DX: HEAD PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR HIT HEAD, LACERATION R SCALP, CLOSED HEAD INJ URY STATUS POST FALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| SUSPECT BASILAR SKULL FRACTURE - HIT BY A CAR WHEN CROSSING STREET IN A WHEELCHAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/01/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| 16 Y.O. B FEMALE W/HEMATOMA TO HEAD. PT HAD WHEELCHAIR ACCIDENT. E8889 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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