Accidents - Christmas tree lights - Year 2002

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,171
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	588
6-15 years old:	225
16-25 years old:	157
26-50 years old:	847
50+ years old:	351

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Internal:	394	Lower Trunk:	283
Shoulder:	237	Upper Trunk:	205
Eyeball:	186	Foot:	166
Hand:	148	Finger:	83
Wrist:	74	Elbow:	68
Unkown:	68	Neck:	68
Knee:	68	Ear:	41
Mouth:	21	Head:	15
All Of Body:	15	Ankle:	15
Face:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/31/2002	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
LOW BACK PAIN-SUS INJ TO LOWER BACK WHILE TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS YESTERDAY. C/O OCCASIONAL NUMBNESS TO LEFT ARM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/29/2002	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT. WALKED INTO CHRISTMAS LIGHTS METAL CLIP WHEN CAME HOME AT 2 PM. DX . ABRA L EAR CANAL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/29/2002	Age: 9 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
SWALLOWED CHRISTMAS LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/25/2002	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT FELL OVER WHILE UNPLUGGING CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS DX: SHOULDER CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/24/2002	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS POKED IN EYE W/BRANCH WHILE HANGING XMAS TREE LIGHTS. DX: R CONJUNCTIVAL ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2002	Age: 37 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, House repair or construction materials
37 YO F HANGING XMAS LIGHTS FELL FROM ROOF CONTUDION BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2002	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
RT FOOT PAIN-SUS INJ TO RT FOOT AFTER FALLING WHILE PUTTING UP X-MAS LI GHTS. C/O PAIN AND SWELLING TO RT FOOT AND BACK PAIN. LEFT AMA.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 12/22/2002	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
SWALLOWED A PEICE OF GLASS -CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT -BULB INGESTION OF CHRISTMAS (PEICE) BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2002	Age: 16 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WITH XMAS LIGHT BULB FOUND IN RT NOSTRIL, FB/REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2002	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS INSIDE HOUSE, PT FELL, HAD BEEN DRINKING , LACERATION TO HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2002	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
R HAND PAIN.FELL PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & HIT HAND ON BALCONY.DX R 5TH MC FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2002	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights, Floors or flooring materials
13 YO F FEL 20 FT TO FLOOR WHILE TRYING TO PUT UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX L WRIST FX DISLOCATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/18/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
BIT SMALL CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT INSIGNIFICANT FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2002	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
NECK PAIN AFTER HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS/ NECK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2002	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
GOT SHORT OF BREATH HANGING CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS. DX. PNEUMOTHORAX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2002	Age: 22 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Christmas tree lights
STEP ON BROKEN CHRISTMAS LIGHT PUNCTURE WOUND FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2002	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
FELT POP IN KNEE WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS DX: KNEE STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2002	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PATIENT FELL PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX-CONTUSION LEFT SHOULDER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2002	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights, Chairs
ROTATOR CUFF TEAR WITH AVULSION FX GREATER TUBEROSITY, HANGING LIGHTS TWISTED STANDING ON A CHAIR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2002	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Elec
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PLUGGED IN WET XMAS LIGHT CORD AND WAS BURNED. DX: R THIRD DIGIT SECOND DEG THERMAL/ELECTRICAL BURN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2002	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Dislocation
Product: Christmas tree lights
33 YO M SLIPPED WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX SHOULDER DISLOCATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2002	Age: 12 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
1YOM-INGESTED FOREIGN OBJECT-BIT A CHRISTMAS BULB AT HOME-SWALLOWED SMA LL PIECE OF GLASS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PUT A CHRISTMAS LIGHT IN HER MOUTH AND STARTED GAGGING. MOM THINKS S HE SWALLOED IT- NO FOREIGN BODY FOUND- NORMAL EXAM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2002	Age: 8 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Christmas tree lights, Other toys
PATIENT CHOKED ON CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB WHEN PLAYING WITH TOYS; CHOKING EPISODE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2002	Age: 24 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
LUMBAR STRAIN- SUSTAINED WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2002	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
LOW BACK PAIN SINCE MONDAY-STARTED W/ PUTTING X-MAS LIGHTS UP. ACUTE BA CK STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/09/2002	Age: 28 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
FELL OFF LADDER PUTTING UP TREE LIGHTS DX. COCCYX FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/09/2002	Age: 51 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
FELL OFF LADDER PUTTING UP ELECTRIC TREE LIGHTS DX. LS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2002	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT HANGING ELECTRIC CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS FELL ONTO RIGHT ELBOW FRACTUR ED ELBOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2002	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
CHEWED AND SWALLOWED CHRISTMAS LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2002	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
INGESTED CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2002	Age: 19 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
FEARED FOREIGN BODY INGESTION, MAY HAVE SWALLOWED A PIECE OF CHRISTMAS BULB, WAS CHEWING TOP OF IT, SMALL PIECE MISSING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2002	Age: 33 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
PAIN ACROSS SHOULDERS & INTO NECK.HA.PUT UP LIGHTS ALL DAY YEST.DX TENSION MIGRAINE/TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
POSSIBLY ATE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2002	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Unkown		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS BECAME DIZZY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/01/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT CUT FINGER ON CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT LAC LIP WHEN SHE LAC MOUTH OFF OF A CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2002	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT SUBSTAINED LACERATION WHEN PT SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB. DX RIGHT WRIST LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2002	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN SHRUB F B UNDER CONJUNCTIVA OF EYE POSS. PINE NEEDLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2002	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
GOT DIZZY PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX. HYPOGLYCEMIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/22/2002	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Elec
Product: Christmas tree lights
SUSTAINED BURNS TO RIGHT HAND WHILE PLUGGING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AT SCH OOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/23/2002	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
CUT SELF ON LEFT PALM WITH CHRISTMAS LIGHTS LACERATION HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/06/2002	Age: 23 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
SWALLOWED PART OF CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2002	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT SWINGING TARZAN STYLE ON CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FROM TREE. LIGHTS BROKEFEL L ON BUTTOCKS. DX: PAIN ON BUTTOCKS. PT LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2002	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS WHEN ONE BROKE PIECE OF THE BULB WENT I NTO RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/30/2002	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
9 YO M CUT ANKLE ON XMAS TREE LIGHT LAC ANKLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/28/2002	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
LEFT SIDED CHEST PAIN STARTED 2 WEEKS AGO WHILE REACHING FOR CHRIS TMAS LIGHTS. CHEST WALL PAIN, M/S, ACUTE EXACERBATION BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/05/2002	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
PT TAKING DOWN SOME CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON A LADDER WHEN ONE OF THE RUNGS BRI=OKE FELL FRACTURED RIBS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/05/2002	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
"I TRIPPED OVER THE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS AND FELL" DX: CONTUSION CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/2002	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
$RT HAND LACERATION.PT WAS TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND A BULB BROKE AND LACERATED PTS HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
PTS.OLDER BROTHER STATES PT.MAY HAVE SWALLOWED A SM.CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT. DX; ? ING. F.B.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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