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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 613
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| PT SUSTAINED CHEST PAIN AFTER FALLING (15 DAYS AGO) WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| FELL OFF STONE WALL, FOOSH, WHILE PUTTING OUT THE REINDEER FOOD >> WRISTFX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2007 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| 70 YOM TRIPPED OVER CHRISTMAS LIGHTS THREE DAYS AGO LANDING ON RIGHT KN EE SUSTAINING AN ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2007 | Age: 46 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: Electric Christmas decorations |
| FELL WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FX RADIUS AND ULNA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2007 | Age: 35 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: Electric Christmas decorations |
| PT STANDING OUT SIDE OF HOSPITAL WHEN WREATH FELL OFF BUILDING ON TO PT S HEAD ,PT SUST CERVICAL STRAIN# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK MOVING CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS AND CHRISTMAS TREE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, House repair or construction materials |
| FELL OFF ROOF WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FX FIGNER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, House repair or construction materials |
| 46 YOM HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, FELL OFF GARAGE ROOF ABOUT 12 FEET SUS TAINING A FRACTURED NOSE AND FACIAL CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2007 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| TRIPPED OVER CHRISTMAS LIGHTS/SHOULDER STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, Extension cords |
| 52 YOM WAS PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND WAS STRUCK ON THE FOREHEAD B Y AN EXTENSION CORD SUSTAINING A LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2007 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, Ladders |
| PATIENT WAS PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ON A LADDER, FELL APPROX 6 FT TO THE GROUND LANDING ON HIS FRONT. DX-RIGHT WRIST FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| PT DX ACUTE MUSCLE STRAIN OF RT SHOULDER - S/P PT C/O SHOULDER PAIN DUE TO WORKING OUTSIDE YESTERDAY,PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2007 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| SWALLOWED PART OF CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, Ladders |
| PT WAS HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & FELL OFF LADDER INJURING LEG ADMITTED TO OR DX: FRACTURED LEFT TIBIA AND FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/29/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, Ladders |
| PT FELL FROM LADDER WHILE HANGING X-MAS LIGHTS,DOG RAN INTO LADDER,PT LANDED ON FEET,DX L TIB-FIB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/27/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, House repair or construction materials |
| PT HANING X-MAS DECORATIONS,FELL OFF ONE STORY ROOF,NLOC,C/O L FOREARM PX,DX POSTERIOR ELBOW DISLOCATION-FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/26/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| PT STS OUTSIDE PUTTING X-MAS LIGHTS UP,WHEN PAIN BEGAN ,SOB,COUGH DX CONTUSION IN LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, House repair or construction materials |
| PT WAS HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON HOUSE AND FELL OFF ROOF INJURING BACK DX: LUMBAR SPINE COMPRESSION FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2007 | Age: 45 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: Electric Christmas decorations, House repair or construction materials |
| PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS DECORATION WAS ON ROOF FELL HIT HEAD ON CEMENT HEAD INJURY TRANSFERRED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 01/13/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations |
| PT INJURED BACK TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TODAY DX// LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electric Christmas decorations, Mountain climbing |
| PT WITH SIDE CHEST PAIN SINCE REACHING FOR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ONE WEEK AG O. INJURED SAME AREA WHEN ROCK CLIMBING IN OCT. D:CHEST WALL PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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