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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,636
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2009 | Age: 51 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: Seasonal decorations, Chairs |
| FRACTURE RADIUS - 51 YO FEMALE REPORTS SHE FELL FROM A CHAIR WHEN HANGI NG XMAS DECORATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2009 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 11 Y/O/F DROPPED HEAVY ORNAMENT ON FOOT 4 DAYS AGO C/O ANKLE PAIN DX; R ANKLE / FOOT CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2009 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 59 Y/O F TRIPPED AND FELL HANGING DECORATIONS AT HOME DX: R ANKLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Ladders |
| PT HANGING DECORATIONS, ACCIDENTALLY KICKED LADDER OUT FROM UNDER SELF & INJURED SHOULDER DX;* (R) SHOULDER DISLOCATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 2YOF PT ACCID DROPPED A CERAMIC HALLOWEEN PUPKIN DECORATION ON HER L FO OT. INJ L GREAT TOE. DX L GREAT TOE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Knives |
| WAS CARVING PUMPKINS WITH DAD AND CUT R INDEX FINGER ON A KNIFE DX- FI NGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Tables |
| 50 YOF FELL LAST WEDNESDAY PUTTING UP HOLIDAY DECORATIONS SUSTAINING A CERVICAL STRAIN, FELL OFF A TABLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Knives |
| WAS CUTTING A PUMPKIN WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED CAUSING LAC TO R 4TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2009 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 63YOF TRIPPED OVER SOME HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS IN THE YARD AND LANDED ON TO HEAD SUSTAINED A CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2009 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT TRIPPED OVER HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS. DX: R WRIST SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2009 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 25 YOF FELL WHILE PUTTING UP DECORATIONS TWO WEEKS AGO, NOW WITH PAIN L OWER BACK AND DOWN RIGHT LEG, DX: LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PATIENT FELL OFF 3 FT PUMPKIN, HIT BACK OF HEAD ON CEMENT; SCALP CONTUS ION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Knives |
| WAS CARVINNG PUMPKINS WITH A KNIFE AND CUT R INDEX FINGER DX- LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Knives |
| 8YOM CARVING A PUMPKIN WITH A PUMPKIN KNIFE AND SUSTAINED A FINGER LACE RATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2009 | 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 37YOF GETTING DOWN HOLLAWEEN DECORATIONS FROM THE ATTIC AND SLIPPED ON A WOODEN RAFTER STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2009 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT HAS SZ HX. WALKING INTO A HALLOWEEN PARTY W/ A FOG MACHINE BLOWING. PT HAD SZ ACT, PALE, UNRESP. POST ICTAL. DX SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2009 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT PUT UP HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS IN YARD, AND "WOODEN TOMB STONE" FELL O N LEG, LACERATION TO LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2009 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| HANGING DECORATIONS ON PORCH, FELL INJURY & PAIN LOWER BACK. DX: FALL, LS INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| RAN HAND ALONG A CORN STALK CAUSING LAC TO R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2009 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| LOCAL REACTION TO INSECT STING: WAS HANGING DECORATIONS, STUNG BY INSECT DORSUM OF HAND, STILL ITCHING, MORE SWOLLEN & RED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2009 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Fences or fence posts |
| PT WAS PUTTING DECORATION OUT ON A FENCE POST/ LAC TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2009 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| STEPPED ON A GLASS ORNAMENT, AT HOME, THE GLASS BROKE, GLASS IN FOOT DX: FB IN FOOT, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2009 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT WAS HANGING HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS IN YARD WHEN SHE SLIPPED AND FELL ON WET GRASS. DX. FX LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2009 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT HANGING UP HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS AND GOT SOMETHING IN (L) EYE, PAIN & VISUAL CHANGES DX;# NONE STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2009 | Age: 33 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: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| ACUTE ON CHRONIC BACK PAIN: C/O LOW BACK PAIN, FUSION DONE (2) MONTHS AGO, HELPING MOM DECORATE FOR HALLOWEEN, OVEREXERTED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT TRYING TO PUT A SPIDER MAN EASTER BASKET ON HIS HEAD, WOULD NOT FIT. PT PULLED BASKET. NOW HAS PAIN IN NECK. DX NECK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2009 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| FOOT CELLULITIS-STEPPED ON A DECORATION-@ HOME-AREA BECAME INFECTED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Wagons |
| PATIENT SWALLOWED 2-3 METALLIC STARS OFF DECORATIONS HE TOOK OFF HIS WA GON IN PARADE, MOM PULLED 2 OUT, TURNED RED, GAGGING; FB INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 2YOF, CHILD PLACED SEA SHELL UP NOSE, FOREIGN BODY NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 3 YOM WAS SITTING ON DECORATIVE TISSUE HOLDER LACERATION BUTTOCKS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2009 | Age: 30 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: Fracture |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT WAS AT HOME, TRIPPED OVER A CONCRETE TURTLE IN THE LAWN CAUSIGN A FX TO SACRUM AND LT FOOT PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| 53YOF WAS HOME PUTTING AWAY EASTER DECORATIONS DEVELOPED LOW BACK PAIN;BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT WAS RUNNING AROUND NAKED WHEN FELL AND LANDED ON THE HANDLE OF AND EASTER BASKET, INJURING PERINEUM. DX: LAC TO URINARY MEATUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2009 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT LOWER LIP AFTER CUTTING IT ON PLASTIC EASTER EGG. DX LACERATION LEFT LOWER LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2009 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT WAS HANGING DECORATIONS AT A CHURCH FOR EASTER ALL DAY LONG A ND DEVELOPED PAIN IN UPPER BACK AND NECK STRAINED NECK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| FB FROM FOAM BERRY DECORATION IN LEFT NOSTRIL DX NASAL FB REMOVE D ************** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2009 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| PT SPRAINED A KNEE WHILE REMOVING DECORATIONS FROM A WINDOW AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| PT WAS AT HOME, FELL HITTING A LAWN ORNAMENT CAUSING A LACERATION TO FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2009 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Seasonal decorations, Benches |
| PT STANDING ON A BENCH PUTTING UP SOME DECORATIONS FOR A PARTY AND MIS SED STEP AND FELL STRAINED FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Seasonal decorations |
| LOW BACK PAIN LIFTING CHRISTMAS DECORACTIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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