Accidents - Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings - Year 2003 - Upper Leg

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,815
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	39
6-15 years old:	307
16-25 years old:	306
26-50 years old:	556
50+ years old:	605

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/24/2003	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
ON PORCH, TRIPPED & FELL DOWN. FX NECK RT FEMUR
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/23/2003	Age: 32 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FELL THROUGH WOODEN PORCH AND CONTUSED UPPER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/01/2003	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
LEFT FEMUR CONTUSION; BACK STRAIN-SITTING ON BRICK PORCH-GAVE AWAY AND PATIENT ENDED UP AT THE BOTTOM WITH BRICKS HITTING BACK AND LEGS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/30/2003	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FX UPPER LEG WHEN A DECK FELL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/30/2003	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
CONTUSION TO UPPER LEG WHEN A DECK FELL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/30/2003	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FELL OFF DECK DX: L THIGH CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2003	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FRACTURED UPPER LEG WHEN DECK BROKE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/19/2003	Age: 76 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
LEFT FEMUR FX-FELL FROM PORCH 2-3 HOURS AGO LANDING ON LEFT KNEE. UNABL E TO PERFORM ROM ON LEFT KNEE.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/07/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PATIENT FELL THRU PORCH AT HOME. DX: HEMATOMA TO RT UPPER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/06/2003	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FELL OFF PORCH AND FRACTURED UPPER LEG
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 10/04/2003	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings, Runners, throw rugs or doormats
PT TRIPPED OVER A DOORMAT AT HOME AND FELL TO THE PORCH FRACTURED RIGHT FEMUR
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/06/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PT BITTEN ON THIGH BY INJSECT WHEN ON HER PORCH DX:PAIN/SWELLING TO THIGH FROM INSECT BITE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2003	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings, Hammers
36YOBM WHO WAS HAMMERING ON A RAIL ON THE DECK ,TRIPPED, AND THE R SIDE OF HIS THIGH HIT THE DECK.DX:CONTUSION OF R FEMUR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2003	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PATIENT FELL OFF THE DECK SUNDAY NIGHT SUSTAINING LEFT THIGH PAIN.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 08/15/2003	Age: 29 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
ACUTE BLUNT TRAUMA ON LT THIGH-FELL ON DECK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/10/2003	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings, Bicycles or accessories
PATIENT FELL 4 FT FROM PORCH LANDING ON A BIKE AT HOME; THIGH LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2003	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
REACHING OVER A BALCONY - FELL 6 FT RIGHT UPPER LEG ABRASIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
TRIPPED, FELL ON DECK DX. FEMUR FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/20/2003	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PT FELL OFF PORCH YESTERDAY. DX: L THIGH CONT/HEMATOMA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2003	Age: 28 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings, House repair or construction materials
UPPER LEG HEMATOMA. PT WAS WALKING ON ROOF OF COVERED PORCH AND FELL OF F 2 FEET.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2003	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FELL OFF OF PORCH-HURT THIGH DX CONTUSION TO FEMUR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2003	Age: 18 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
R THIGH STR/18YOF TRIPPED AND FELL ON HER PORCH 2 DAYS AGO AND HIT HER R THIGH. C/O PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2003	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PT'S MOTHER STATES CHILD FELL OFF DECK AND LACERATED THIGH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2003	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
34 YO M FELL OFF PORCH, LEG GAVE OUT, C/O LEG PAIN. DX ACUTE BILAT THI GH / FEMUR STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2003	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
WORKING ON DECK-FELL OFF-LANDED ON NAILS / DEBRIS LACERATION TO THIGH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/2003	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PT FELL FROM DECK INJURING LEG, ACUTE THIGH CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2003	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
STATES HE HAD 4-5 BEERS AT HOME, WAS "PEEING" OFF 4' HIGH PORCH & FELL. DX FRACTURE LEFT FEMUR, LACERATION LEFT FOOT, CONTUSIONS LEFT ELBOW.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/07/2003	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PT FELL OFF OF A DECK AND HIT UPPER LEG. DX UPPER LEG CON
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2003	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
SLIPPED AND HAD A GROUND LEVEL FALLONTO DECK. PREGNANT. DX. LT. THIGH C ONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2003	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
HAMSTRING PULL - 44 YOF WAS WALKING ON WET WOODEN DECK AT THE *** CENTE R AND SLIPPED AND FELL, C/O PAIN RIGHT HAMSTRING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/2003	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
20 YOMC WAS AT A HOUSE PARTY AND HAD BEEN DRINKING AND WHEN LEAVING JUM PED OFF A 6 FT. PORCH/ FX FEMUR
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 04/30/2003	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
DX: R THIGH CONTUSION. WRESTLING WITH FRIEND FELL OFF BALCONY ONTO CONC RETE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/2003	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PATIENT WITH HIP/THIGH PAIN AFTER FALLING OFF PORCH AT HOME, HAD ROD IN THIGH FROM PREVIOUS FX.; FEMUR FX.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/24/2003	Age: 17 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
DOG BITE R ARM, L LEG. AT HOME HOLDING LARGE DOG SO FRIEND COULD COME ON PORCH, DOG BIT HER. DX;DOG BITE L THIGH 7 CM LAC/ 3.5 DOG BITE R ARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/15/2003	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
WALKING ON SIDEWALK, DOG ON ITS PORCH & RAN OUT AS OWNER WAS CALLING DOG, DOG BIT PATIENT ON RIGHT UPPER LEG. DX ABRASION RIGHT THIGH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/12/2003	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
CUT UPPER LEG WHEN FELL FROM PORCH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2003	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
ACUTE LOWER EXTRMITY CONTUSION WITH LATERAL LT THIGH BRUISINGWALKING ON WOODEN DECK 1 WK AGO, FELL THROUGH ROTTED BOARD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2003	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FELL OFF PORCH DX. FEMUR FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/21/2003	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
22 YOM STEPPED ON ROTTEN DECK. DX CONTUSION/ABRASION R THIGH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2003	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FOREIGN BODY THIGH - 4 YOM RAN ALONG WOODEN DECK AND GOT A SPLINTER EMB EDDED IN HIS RIGHT THIGH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2003	Age: 14 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
GUN SHOT WOUND TO UPPER LEG THEN THROWN FROM BALCONY.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/28/2003	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PT HIT THIGH ON CORNER OF STAGE, CONTUSED R THIGH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2003	Age: 81 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
FELL ON PORCH - HURT LEFT LOWER LEG - FRACTURE FEMUR
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/28/2003	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
PT WAS SITTING ON STAGE AND SLID ACROSS IT SHE GOT A SPLINTER IN HER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/21/2003	Age: 9 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT JUMPED OFF PORCH AND LANDED ON GROUND - CAUGHT LEFT BACK OF THIGH ON A NAIL. D: PUNCTURE WOUND TO RIGHT THIGH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/15/2003	Age: 36 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
WENT TO PICK UP CHILD AT NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, DOG ON FRONT PORCH, PT WENT TO DOOR AND DOG BIT PT ON LEFT UPPER LEG. DX LACERATION LEFT UPPER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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