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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 614
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ladders, Electric Christmas decorations |
| PT STATED HE WAS CLIMBING A LADDER TO PUT XMAS LIGHTS UP, LADDER SLIPPE D-PT FELL ON R ARM/LEG.DX:R FA SPRAIN, R THIGH CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ladders |
| FELL FROM A LADDER AND FX ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2002 | Age: 23 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: Fracture |
| Product: Ladders |
| 23 YOF FELL OFF LADDER FX R RADIUS DISTAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Ladders |
| LEFT FOREARM LACERATION.PT FELL OFF A LADDER AND LACERATED FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ladders, Bunk beds |
| RADIUS FX-FELL OFF LADDER TO HER BUNK BED AT COLLEGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ladders |
| LT FOREARM PAIN AFTER HITTING IT ON LADDER THAT HAD BROKEN. DX; CONT LT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ladders |
| FELL FROM LADDER - CONTUSION TO ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ladders |
| FELL OFF A LADDER TRANSFERRED TO CHILDRENS' HOSPITAL LEFT RADIAL FRACTURE DISPLACED |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/05/2002 | 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: Ladders |
| 22YOM-LACERATION LEFT FOREARM-FELL DOWN TWO STORIES OFF LADDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ladders |
| CONTUSION TO ARM WHEN FELL FROM LADDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ladders |
| LEFT ULNA FRACTURE.PT FELL OFF A LADDER AND INJURED LOWER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2002 | Age: 16 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: Fracture |
| Product: Ladders, Basketball |
| PATIENT STANDING ON LADDER FIXING BASKETBALL HOOP WHEN HE FELL AND HIT ARM ON LADDER. D: RADIUS/ULNA FRACTURES. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/06/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ladders, Safes |
| CONTUSION (L) FOREARM, PT SUST INJURY WITH A LADDER WHILE PLACING A SAFE IN A CLOSET AT HOME, C/O PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2002 | Age: 19 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: Fracture |
| Product: Ladders |
| NONDISPLACED FX R DISTAL RADIUS - STEEL LADDER FELL ON WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ladders |
| FELL OFF LADDER - FOREARM CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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