Accidents - Clotheslines or clothes drying racks - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,030
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	114
6-15 years old:	613
16-25 years old:	290
26-50 years old:	590
50+ years old:	421

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Head:	429	Shoulder:	228
Face:	204	Mouth:	174
Hand:	159	Finger:	144
Wrist:	113	Lower Arm:	98
Neck:	86	Lower Trunk:	79
Ear:	79	Eyeball:	77
Upper Trunk:	76	Knee:	71
Elbow:	6

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/30/2006	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Dental Injury
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
DENTAL TRAUMA-FELL-HIT MOUTH ON IRON RAILING-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
CUT FOREARM ON CLOTHESLINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2006	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
TENDONITIS RIGHT SHOULDER-INJURED WHILE HANGING CLOTHES ON CLOTHESLINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE ORBITAL BLUNT TRAUMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/15/2006	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
NECK PAIN, RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE AT CHURCH DX: NECK CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2006	Age: 23 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN UNDER RACK OF CLOTHES @ LAUNDRYMAT, MOM PULLED OUT & HEARD LOUD POP SHOULDER INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/06/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE/FACIAL ABR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/05/2006	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PATIENT RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE AT HOME WHILE PLAYING WITH THE CHILDREN. DX-LACERATION SCALP 2CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/14/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT FELL ONTO OUTSTRETCHED LT WRIST / ARM WHILE SWINGING ON CLOTHESLINE DX: DISTAL RADIUS BUCKLE FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/03/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
8 YO CLIMBED ON CLOTHESLINE FELL INJURED FOREARM FX FOREARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2006	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT C/O OF MID BACK PAIN WHEN TRYING TO SET UP A CLOTHES LINE DX; THORACIC STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/24/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
HIT HEAD ON MIDDLE OF CLOTHING RACK IN CLOTHING STORE DX: CHI, CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/19/2006	Age: 27 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: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Rotary power lawn mowers
PT MOWING LAWN, RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE POST BOLT, LACERATED FOREHEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/15/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE & FLIPPED OVER ONTO GROUND, HIT HEAD CONCUSSION AND CONTUSION OF NECK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/11/2006	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT PUTTING UP A CLOTHES LINE POLE IN BACKYARD WHEN TRIPPED AND POLE FEL L ON HEAD. GASH ABOVE EYEBROW. NO LOC. D: LACERATION, HTN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/10/2006	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Poles
~PT RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE POLE, C/O LACERATION TO L SIDE OF HEAD PASSED OUT FOR A FEW MINUTES, DX; LAC. L SCALP/
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/05/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO CLOTHES LINE, FLEW BACK AND HIT HEAD/ ABRASION CONTUSION NECK, CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/04/2006	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE PREVIOUS DAY SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMATOMA / PERIORBITAL CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/14/2006	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Dislocation
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Clothing
PT DISLOCATED A SHOULDER BY FALLING TO THE GROUND WHILE HANGING CLOTHES ON THE CLOTHESLINE AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/10/2006	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Manual push mowers
LAC SCALP; MOWING LAWN & RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE CAUSING LAC TO TOP OF HEA D.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/03/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT PLAYING OUTDOORS, LACERATED HAND ON PIECE OF METAL ON CLOTHESLINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/27/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
FELL HIT HEAD ON CLOTHS RACK DX: CONTUSION TO HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/22/2006	Age: 16 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: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO A CLOTHES LINE CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
FX FOREARM ,FELL OFF POLE OF CLOTHESLINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/02/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT RUNNING LAST NIGHT CAUGHT HIS NECK ON CLOTHES LINE C/O RT EAR PN AND NECK PAIN DX:CLOTHESLINE ABRASION TO NECK*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2006	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
LACERATIONS TO FINGERS - CUT FINGER ON CLOTHESLINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Poles
DX LACERATION TO HEAD: SWINGING ON CLOTHES LINE AT HOME, HIT METAL POLE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2006	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT WAS OUTSIDE PLAYING ON A CLOTHSLINE AND FELL OFF. DX: BUCKLE FRACT URE TO LEFT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/19/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT SLIPPED, HIT HAND ON A DRYING RACK, LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT CAUGHT HAND IN CLOTHESLINE, PUNCTURING HAND DX: PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2006	Age: 4 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: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT WAS @ HOME POKED TO EYE WITH END OF HOLLOW CLOTHES LINE POLE NOW ABRAISON TO LEFT EYE. DX CORNEAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2006	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
15 YO MALE RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE WHILE PLAYING MANHUNT FACIAL CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/12/2006	Age: 83 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT WALKING IN YARD AT HOME, TRIPPED OVER CLOTHES LINE AND FELL, FX RT H IP
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/08/2006	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
26YMC CHASING DOG THROUGH YARD RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE CUTTING LOWER LIP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT. FELL FROM CLOTHESLINE, LANDED ON L WRIST AT HOME. DX. FX L DISTAL RADIUS, DISTAL ULNA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/16/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT WAS SWINGING ON CLOTHESLINE AND FELL ; LANDED ON LEFT ARM. D: FX R ADIUS /ULNA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/07/2006	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE AND STRUCK LEFT EAR LACERATION EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/02/2006	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
LIP LAC/24YOM STS AT HOME WAS PLAYING MANHUNT IN THE DARK AND RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE CAUSING LAC TO LIP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/01/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
ELBOW CONTUSED, HANGING ON CLOTHESLINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2006	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT WAS RUNNING THROUGH YARD AND RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE. DX. SHOULDER TR AUMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/17/2006	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
JUMPING AND HIT CLOTHESLINE/LIP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2006	Age: 96 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Clothing
96 YEAR OLD FEMALE STATES SHE WAS OUTSIDE HANGING CLOTHES AND WAS LEANING ON CLOTHESLINE, THE LINE SNAPPED AND SHE FELL /DX FOREARM SPR.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/06/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PULLING DOWN CLOTHES LINE & NAIL EMBEDDED INTO SKIN/CHEST, LUNGS SOUND CL & EQUAL BIL, STATES HAVING SLIGHT DIFFICULTY BREATHING
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 03/04/2006	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
CAUGHT FINGER ON CLOTHES RACK CAUSING LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/06/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
CONTUS L KNEE; WALKING DOWN HALLWAY, TRIPPED & STRUCK KNEE ON DRYING RA CK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT. WAS PLAY'G ON CLOTHES RACK + FELL HITT'G SIDE OF FACE YEST. HAS PER IORBITAL EDEMA TODAY, RED SCLERA, INNER CANTHUS. C/O H/A. DX.: HEAD INJ
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2006	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Trampolines
FACIAL CONTUSIONS, FELL FROM TRAMPOLINE TO CLOTHESLINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/10/2006	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE , RIGHT EYE LID LACERATION / PATIENT WAS TO BE T RANSFERRED BUT ELOPED FROM TREATMENT ROOM
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

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