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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,963
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/02/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT CAUGHT ROPE ON FOOT AND FELL AND INJURED SHOULDER. DX: LEFT SHOULDER DISLOCATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| 19 YO PULLING ROPE AGAINST OTHERS INJURED HAND FX HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rope or string |
| FELL OFF A ROPE SWING. DX LACERATION FOREHEAD FRACTURE L ULNER STYLOID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| SWINGING ON A ROPE SWING FELL 30 FT. DX LEG FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/28/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Rope or string |
| FELL FROM A ROPE SWING. DX CONCUSSION WITH LOC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PATIENT WAS DOING A PROJECT AT SCHOOL, LT HAND HAD ROPE WRAPPED AROUND HAND, ROPE PULLED, HAND BENT IN HALF. DX-4TH & 5TH METACARPAL FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rope or string |
| SWINGING ON A ROPE SWING AND FELL OFF. DX LACERATION R LATERAL UPPER EYELID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE FELL ABOUT 4FT WHILE SWINGING FROM A ROPE/ DX CERVICAL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PULLING ON TUG OF WAR ROPE, HEARD A POP. DX. FX L HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2008 | Age: 22 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: Ankle | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| IN PARK CLIMBING ROPE,FELL AND FX ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| DX RANK SPRAIN/R ANK EFFUSION: COM'G DOWN ROPE, INVERTED R ANK ON LAND'G |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Rope or string |
| HEAD ACHE-SWINGING ON A ROPE INTO CREEK -HIT HEAD ON ROCKS & SAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2008 | 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: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| PT WAS ROPE SWINGING AND JUMPED OUT OF A TREE INTO A RIVER AND FRACTURE D LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2008 | 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: Rope or string |
| WHILE SWINGING ON ROPE, LOST GRIP & FELL AP. 1';INJURED RT RING FINGER; + DEFORMITY. DX; FRACTURE RIGHT RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT HAD A ROPE WRAPPED AROUND FINGER. DX: R MIDDLE FINGER FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rope or string, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT PULLING ON A STRING THAT HAD A NAIL ON ONE END OUT OF THE GROUND, NA IL HIT PATIENT IN L EYE. DX. L EYE CORNEAL ABRA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string, Animal induced injury |
| 24 YO FEMALE GOT TANGLED IN ROPE THAT DOG WAS PULLING AND FELL ANKLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT SWINGING ON A ROPE FOR SCHOOL WHEN GOT FINGER CAUGHT. D:FINGER SPRAI N. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string, Swimming |
| PT SPRAINED AN ANKLE WHILE FALLING FROM A ROPE SWING INTO A LAKE WHILE SWIMMING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2008 | 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: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT WAS SWINGING FROM A ROPE AT THE LAKE AND LACERATED LEG. DX: RIGHT ANTERIOR SHIN LACERATION 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rope or string |
| 16YOM WAS SWINGING ON A ROPE JUMP INTO WATER, LACERATED LEFT FOOT; FOOT LACERATION,4CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 25 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rope or string |
| TRAPEZE ARTIST GOT ROPE BURNS ON HANDS FROM TRAPEZE FALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Not Spec |
| Product: Rope or string |
| DX BURN TO HAND: SLIDING DOWN ROPE X 5D AGO NOW W MULTIPLE OPEN BLISTERS TO HANDS AND FINGER W INC REDNESS PAIN SOME DRAINAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rope or string, Poles |
| PT SWINGING ON ROPE AT LAKE AND HIT METAL POLE RESULTING IN LAC AND CONTUSION OF THE HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| 19 YOM SUSTAINED A SPRAINED FOOT WHEN SWINGING FROM ROPE INTO A STREAM YESTERDAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| FELL ON L WRIST OFF OF ROPE SWING DX; WRIST SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rope or string |
| WAS SWINGING ON ROPE SWING AT THE RIVER AND LANDED IN THE WATER HARD ABD CONTUSION # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PLAYING TUG OF WAR WHEN ROPE WRAPPED AROUND HAND CONTUSING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT USED ROPE TO DESCEND FROM ROOF AND LOST FOOTING. DX: L SHOULDER STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rope or string |
| DX ABD PAIN/PROTEINURIA/LEUKOCYTOSIS: C/O ACUTE ONSET R ABD PAIN RADIATING INTO HIS R TESTICLE W CLIMBING ROPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT TRIPPED OVER A ROPE THAT WAS ON THE GROUND AND INJURED HER L FOOT. H AS PAIN WITH WEIGHT BEARING. DX L FOOT SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT PLAYING ON A ROPE SWING AND GOR THE ROPE CAUGHT AROUND WRIST AND FRA CTURED WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT FX FINGER WHILE USING ROPE TO JUMP INTO WATER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 22 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: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string |
| DX THORACIS PARASPINAL STRAIN: FELL FROM 6-7FT YTDY FROM ROPE CLIMBING, WAS NOT WEARING HELMET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string |
| 23YOM WAS SWINGING ON A ROPE FELL OFF LANDED ON A ROCK; LUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rope or string, Boats and boating |
| FELL WITH ROPE CAUGHT AROUND ANKLE, PT ON SAILBOAT DX: KNEE SPRAIN, H EAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT RECEIVED OTALGIA WHEN JUMPED OFF ROPE INTO CREEK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Rope or string |
| 17 YO SLIDING DOWN ROPE CAUSED INJURY TO LEG BURN ON LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rope or string, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| @ FRIEND HOUSE LOOKING OUT THE WHINDOW WHILE FRIEND PULLING A ROPE THRU THE WINDOW, ROPE HIT PT'S EYE , ROPE ATTETCHEND TO NOTHING>> VITREOUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rope or string, Fences or fence posts |
| PT C/O SEVERED THUMB. PT TRYING TO TIE HORSE UP WITH ROPE AND HAND WENT THROUGH FENCE. DX OPEN FRACT NERVE VAS. TENDON INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/06/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PT WAS SWINGING ON A ROPE FLEW OFF ROPE & STRUCK UPPER BACK ON GROUND DX: CONTUSION TO UPPER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rope or string, Horseback riding |
| R THUMB PAIN, CAUGHT BETWEEN ROPE AND SADDLE DX; THUMB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rope or string |
| DX LUMBSACRAL & THORACIC PARASPINAL MUSCLE: FELL OFF SWING ROPE DURING MILITARY OBSTACLE COURSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rope or string |
| PAIN DEVELOPED WHILE PULLING ON A ROPE. DX L INGUINAL HERNIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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