Accidents - Christmas tree lights - Year 2007

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,106
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	57
6-15 years old:	339
16-25 years old:	312
26-50 years old:	681
50+ years old:	715

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Lower Trunk:	367	Shoulder:	266
Eyeball:	249	Wrist:	243
Internal:	186	Foot:	154
Hand:	83	Pubic Region:	80
Head:	77	Face:	77
Knee:	71	Neck:	71
Mouth:	61	Finger:	46
Upper Trunk:	15	Elbow:	15
Ankle:	15	All Of Body:	15
Ear:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/31/2007	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PATIENT STEPPED ON BROKEN CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULBS. DX-LACERATION RIGHT ANKLE, 3CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/26/2007	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
BIT / SWALLOWED A CHRISTMAS BULB. DX FB INGESTED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/25/2007	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, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows
PUT CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BULB IN MOUTH THAT WAS HANGING INSIDE FROM A W INDOW, FOUND WITH BROKEN LIGHT IN MOUTH; POSSIBLE INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/22/2007	Age: 9 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 PLAYING WITH CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS AND ONE OF THEM BORKE WENT INTO E YE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/22/2007	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT HANGING LIGHTS AT HOME 2 DAYS AGO ALMOST FELL INJURED SHOULDER DX// RIGHT SHOULDER SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
FELL HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS/HAND FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2007	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
79YOM WAS PUTTING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UP,LOST BALANCE AND FELL,STRIKING NOSE;NASAL FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2007	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Christmas tree lights
OLD CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS STARTED FIRE AT HOME CO POISONING/SMOKE INHALATION/MOUTH BURN * COHB-24 FD
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 12/19/2007	Age: 42 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: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
COCCYX CONTUSION: LUMBAR SPASM: PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AT HOME, NO OTHER INFORMATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2007	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
SHOCKED WHEN PLUGGED IN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & HAS HAD SEVERAL SYNCOPAL EPISODES SINCE, HIT HEAD ON BRICK HOUSE DX SCALP CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2007	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
DX: CHEWED ON CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT, POSS INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2007	Age: 47 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
PASSED OUT WHEN UNPLUGGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX SYNCOPE, LIP LACERATON
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2007	Age: 24 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: Christmas tree lights
24 YO MALE FELL TO SAND WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS CHEST WALL CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2007	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
FELL, R HIP PAIN WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS DX; R HIP FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/13/2007	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
HURT BACK PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS @ HOME DX LOW BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2007	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT INJ SHOULDER WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
GOT PIECE OF CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB IN FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2007	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT BROKE BULB ON CHRISTMAS TREE-MINOR LAC TO FOOT -NO INGESTION OF BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/09/2007	Age: 90 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
TRIPPED ON CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS. DX- R HIP FRACTURE #
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/07/2007	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
SOMETHING GOT INTO EYE WHILE PUTTING XMAS LIGHTS UP, DX; EYE FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2007	Age: 6 years	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
CHEWED / SWALLOWED SMALL ELECTRIC CHRISTMAS LIGHT INGESTED GLASS FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2007	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT FELL WHILE PUTTING UP X-MAS LIGHTS DX: WRIST FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2007	Age: 82 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, Ladders
PT HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AT HOME ABOUT TEN FEET UP ON A LADDER AND FELL OFF ONTO HEAD SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/03/2007	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
PT HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND FELL OFF THE LADDER SUSTAINED A CONTUSI ON TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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 BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2007	Age: 23 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
C/LO LOWER BACK PAIN AFTER HELPING PUT UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TODAY. DX. ACUTE MYOFASCIAL STRAIN, LUMBAR, SACRAL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2007	Age: 21 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Elec
Product: Christmas tree lights
REPLACING A CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BULB WHEN IT POPPED AND BURNED HAND. DX. 2ND DEGREE HAND BURN.*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2007	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
SWALLOWED GLASS FROM BROKEN CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT DX; FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2007	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, HURT SHOULDER DX SHOULDER STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/29/2007	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
FELL WHILE PUTTING UP X-MAS LIGHT, DX; WRIST LAC,
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PATIENT C/O ARM PAIN, ON TOP OF TRAILOR PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND FELL TO THE GROUND. DX-CONTUSION ELBOW.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 45 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
LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN HANGING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 20 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
PT WAS HELPING FATHER STRING SOME CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. HE WAS KNEELING DO WN, NOW HAS PAIN TO KNEE. DX: SPRAIN LEFT KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, Plants, trees and shrubs
STUCK BY TREE BRANCH WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX: CORNEAL AB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 38 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
HAD SOMETHING GO INTO RIGHT EYE WHILE TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX: FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 55 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
55 YOM INJ BACK HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS STRAIN LOWER TRUNK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2007	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
PTS FATHER HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND TRIPPED OVER THE WIRE AND FELL FELT A SNAP IN NECK STRAINED NECK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/2007	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS AT HOME PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, FELL CASUING A STRAIN TO LT SHOULDERS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2007	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT SWALLOWED A CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2007	Age: 4 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
PT SAYS HE SWALLOWED THE GLASS OF A CHRISTMAS LIGHT, HE WAS REMOVING THE LIGHT W. HIS MOUTH. DX SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2007	Age: 5 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, Electrical outlets or receptacles
TRYING TO PLUG IN A TREE W/SMALL CHRISTMAS TYPE LIGHTS AT BABYSITTERS,S PARKS FLEW OUT,RECEIVED BURN TO HAND,POWER WENT OUT;ELECTRICAL BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/20/2007	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Pubic Region		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
PUT SMALL CHRISTMAS LIGHT INTO PENIS DX: F.B. IN URETHRA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/08/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Elec
Product: Christmas tree lights
REMOVED LIGHT BULB FROM STRAND OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND INSERTED FINGER AT HOME, WALKED TO FAMILY ROOM WITH BURN; ELECTRIC BURN TO FINGER/CALF
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/03/2007	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders
PT WAS TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS OUTSIDE OF HOME WHEN LOST BALANCE A ND FELL3-4FT OFF LADDER ONTO LEFT HAND SUSTAINING A FX TO LEFT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/21/2007	Age: 63 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
63 YOM REMOVING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS LAC TO R PINKY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2007	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
PUT CHRISTMAS LIGHT IN EAR TO SCRATCH IT. BULB BROKE. DX FB EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2007	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
SWALLOWED A CHRISTMAS LIGHTBULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/07/2007	Age: 33 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights, Extension cords
PT PUTTING AWAY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND TRIPPED OVER AN EXTENSION CORD ONT O LEFT WRIST STRAINED WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2007	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights, Bathtubs or showers
R FOOT CONT; MILD R ANKLE SPRAIN: THURS. DROPPED CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON FOOT, THIS AM SLIPPED IN SHOWER, REINJURED R FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/03/2007	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
A PART OF A TREE LIGHT GOT INTO EYE - REMOVED FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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