Accidents - Christmas tree lights - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,499
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	416
6-15 years old:	29
16-25 years old:	266
26-50 years old:	977
50+ years old:	808

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Eyeball:	546	Lower Trunk:	539
Internal:	262	Ankle:	206
Upper Trunk:	165	Shoulder:	119
Finger:	116	All Of Body:	109
Knee:	86	Head:	86
Mouth:	71	Elbow:	59
Neck:	59	Foot:	35
Toe:	14	Ear:	14
Lower Arm:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/25/2006	Age: 46 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 POKED HIMSELF IN THE LEFT EYE AS HE WAS HANGING CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT S ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2006	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PRESENTED WITH LACERATION TO INDEX FINGER OF RIGHT HAND FROM BROKEN CHRISTMAS LIGHT AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2006	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
PATIENT HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND FELL AND EXPERIENCING BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2006	Age: 39 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
BACK CT-FELL WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2006	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
PT INJURED NECK WHILE ON A LADDER HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHT 2 WEEKS AGO DSX// CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PUTTING CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS ON HER CARPORT AND FELL CONTUSION FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2006	Age: 20 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights, Floors or flooring materials
BIT A CHRISTMAS LIGHT FOUND ON FLOOR,MOTHER COULD NOT FIND ALL PIECES POSS. F.B. INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2006	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Christmas tree lights, Floors or flooring materials
STEPPED ON A BROKEN CHRISTMAS TREE BULB THAT WAS ON THE FLR " TOE PW"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2006	Age: 47 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 PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS ON THE TREE AND POKED SELF IN THE L EFT EYE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2006	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
51YOM INJ BACK WHILE PUTTING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS STRAIN DORSAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2006	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
CHEWING ON CHRISTMAS BULB FROM CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT DX POSS FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2006	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
FOREIGN BODY EAR - 17 YOM PRESENTS WITH A CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BULB ST UCK IN RIGHT EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2006	Age: 19 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
MOM FOUND PT SUCKING ON A CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT; SWALLOWED SOME GLASS FR OM THE BULB. D: SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2006	Age: 51 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 PUTTING HUP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS AND POKED IN THE LEFT EYE WITH TH E TREE BRANCH ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2006	Age: 18 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
CUT FOOT ON CHRISTMAS LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2006	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
PT FELL OFF OF LADDER WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX: LUMBAR CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2006	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights, Chairs
STRAIN LOW BACK - 26 YO MALE REPORTS HE WAS PUTTING UP XMAS LIGHITS AND SLIPPED AND FELL OFF CHAIR LANDING ON BACK - AT HOME JPTA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2006	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
DECORATING A BUSH WITH CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND SLIPPED WITH FOOT IN A HOLE ANKLE SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2006	Age: 50 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: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
50 YO F STRAIN TO LUMBAR AREA MUSCLE SPASM INJURED WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2006	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PASSED OUT WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND FELL STRIKING HEAD SUS ETAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2006	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, Chairs
PT WAS STANDING IN A CHAIR HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND FELL. DX. CONTU SION LOWER BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2006	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
ANKLE SPRAIN - 31 YOM WAS PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS LAST NIGHT AND TW ISTED RIGHT ANKLE SUSTAINING A SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/03/2006	Age: 20 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Christmas tree lights
DYE-FILLED CHRISTMAS TRE LIGHTBULB BROKE ON HER HAND, SHE THEN RUBBED HER EYES AND SCREAMED DX:CONJUNCTIVITIS, EYE IRRITANT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2006	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	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
PT CHEWED AND SWALLOWED PART OF CHRISTMAS LIGHT, MOM CAUGHT HER AND PUL LED SOME OUT, NOW WITH CHEST PAIN; FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2006	Age: 19 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
POSSIBL INGESTION OF GLASS; MOM REPORTS CHILD WAS "CRUNCHING" ON PIECE OF GLASS FROM A CHRISTMAS BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2006	Age: 29 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, Containers
PT PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS STEPPING OVER A LARGE BOX AND FELT A PUL L IN RIGHT GROIN STRAINED GROIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT IS BEING SEEN FOR SWALLOWING A CHRISTMAS LIGHT AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2006	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
FELL 20 FEET WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX- 3 CM ELBOW LACERATI ON, PELVIC CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2006	Age: 87 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: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
87YOF FX HIP BEND OVER TO PLUG IN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FELL
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/26/2006	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
31 YOM GOT TANGLED IN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND FELL ON R SHOULDER CONTUSION TO SHOULDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2006	Age: 46 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 WAS CUT ON BULB WHILE PUTTING ON XMAS TREE LIGHTS. DX: 1 CM LAC R FIFTH FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Electric Shock
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PLUGGING IN TOP OF CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS, SHOCKED IN LT HAND, WENT T HROUGH BODY, ELECTRIC SHOCK INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2006	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Electric Shock
Product: Christmas tree lights
ELECTRICAL CHOCK FROM CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2006	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights, Stairs or steps
TURNING ON CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS AND MISSED A STEP AND INVERTED ANKLE S PRAIN ANKLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, House repair or construction materials
PT WAS HANGING CHRISTMAN LIGHTS ON ROOF HIT KNEE AND BACK KNEE CONTU STION AND BACK STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2006	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
QUESTION OF SWALLOWING FOREIGN BODY (A PART OF CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BULB), HAD IT IN HER MOUTH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2006	Age: 48 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
GLASS FROM A CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT BROKE AND GOT INTO EYE CORNEAL ABRASIO N
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	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: Christmas tree lights
CLOSED HEAD INJURY - 20 YO MALE PRESENTS AFTER FALLING FROM 12' HEIGHT WHEN STRINGING XMAS LIGHTS AT HOME - HAS HEADACHE, DIZZINESS & NAUSEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2006	Age: 20 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
L CORNEAL ABRASION;PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & BRANCH GOT IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/22/2006	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Electric Shock
Product: Christmas tree lights, Extension cords
24 YO M MINOR ELETRIC SHOCK R HAND WHILE PLUGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS INTO AN EXTENSION CORD*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/2006	Age: 2 years	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
2YOM CHEWED A CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB SUPECTED SWALLOWED BROKEN GLASS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2006	Age: 43 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, Ladders
PATIENT WAS HANGING CHRISTEMAS LIGHTS AND FELL FROM LADDER. DX: STRAI N TO LUMBAR AND THORACIC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2006	Age: 83 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
TRIPPED OVER LADDER WHILE HANGING XMAS LIGHTS. PAIN ON LEFTSIDE OF CHES T. XR NEG. DX: SOFT TISSUE INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/18/2006	Age: 28 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT INJURED ANKLE WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX: LEFT ANKLE SPRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/16/2006	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT SPRAIN KNEE WHEN WALKING ACROSS GRASSY AREA AND TRIPPED OVER CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FELL ONTO CONCRETE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2006	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights, Desk supplies
FINGER FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL: + ETOH: PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND STAPLED L 4TH DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2006	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT IS BEING SEEN FOR HAVING A FB IN FOOT AFTER HE STEPPED ON A CHRISTMA S LIGHT ABOUT 2-3 WEEKS AGO - NOW HAVING TROUBLE WITH FB IN FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/10/2006	Age: 3 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: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
LOWER ARM LACERATION, FELL ON BROKEN CHRISTMAS LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2006	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
POKED IN EYE WITH XMASLITE CORNEAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2006	Age: 32 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
PT TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS WHEN ONE BROKE GOT A PIECE IN RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/2006	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Christmas tree lights
TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS, BULB WITH LIQUID CHEMICAL INSIDE BRO KE, GOT FLUID IN EYE. DX: CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/2006	Age: 71 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
TRIPPED &FELL, TRYING TO TAKE DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX: CONTUSION SHOU LDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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