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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,721
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| TRAUMA LT.WRIST.PT.REFERS WHILE HANGING CLOTHES IN PATIO,FELL DOWN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 4 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 |
| DX CHI: OUTPLAY'G, RUN'G IN YARD, W CLOTHESLINED BY ROPE STRETCH'G ACRROS YARD. HEAD HYPEREXTENDED BACK THEN LANDED ONTO HEAD ON CONCRETE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2008 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PT PULLED A STOCKING HOLDER OVER/ CONTUSION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| FACE PAIN. WALKED INTO END OF A CLOTHING RACK & HIT FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| CONTUSION TO SCALP 11 YO CUT SCALP WHEN CLOTHES RACH FELL ON HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2008 | Age: 12 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 |
| PT WITH LAC TO ARM FROM A METAL CLOTHES RACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 26 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 |
| LAC FACE- RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2008 | Age: 63 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| DX CONTU CHEST WALL: PT RAN INOT CLOTHES RACK, SUNDAY C/O LOWER R RIB PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| BACKED INTO CLOTHES RACK CONTUSION RIGHT THORAX * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 17 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 |
| PT WAS RUNNING AND RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE. DX. HEAD LAC TO LIP AND HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| SWINGING ON CLOTHESLINE, FELL OFF;DX FRACTURED LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT SUSTAINED ELBOW FRACTURE WHILE PULLING A CLOTHESLINE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| 4YO HISP MALE FELL AGAINST CLOTHING RACK,CUT HEAD DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2008 | Age: 6 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 |
| RUNNING AND RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE. DX FACE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Stairs or steps |
| PT RUNNING IN YARD AND RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE AND FELL HITTING HEAD ON ST EPS. DX. LAC TOP OF HEAD AND ABRAS THROAT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2008 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT TRIPPED ON CLOTHESLINE-FX NASAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Beds or bedframes |
| 74YOF GETTING UP OUT OF BED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,FORGOT THAT A CLOTHES RACK WAS BESIDE BED,TRIPPED FELL AGAINST RACK;RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| NECK BRUISING & ABRAS/13YOM RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE THIS AFTERNOON AT AN OLD HOUSE. STRUCK NECK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| SWINGING FROM CLOTHESLINE, FELL 6 FT;DX CONTUSED FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| WAS TAKING CLOTHES OFF OF CLOTHESLINE AND FELL HIT HEAD C/O HEAD AND NECK PAIN DX- MULTIPLE CERVICAL VERTABRA FX SDH |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/15/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| R FOOT SPLINTER/5YOF AT HOME IN BCK YARD 3 HRS AGO, SLID DOWN WOODEN CL OTHES LINE AND GOT SPLINTER IN R FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WALKED INTO A RUSTED CLOTHESLINE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT HIT HAND ON DRYING RACK 2 DAYS AGO, CONTUSION TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| 6Y/O,M,SWINGING ON CLOTHESLINE, FELL, L ELBOW DISLOCATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT PRESENTS S/P HITTING HEAD ON COTHESLINE AT 2015. DX. HEAD CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE DX: TRUAMATIC NECK INJ |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/18/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Beds or bedframes |
| JUMPED ON BED, AT HOME, & FELL OFF, CUTTING WRIST ON A PORTABLE CLOSET DX: WRIST LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT HAD CLOTHES RACK FALL ON FOOT FX FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Stairs or steps |
| MOVING RACK OF CLOTHES DOWN STAIRS PREVIOUS DAY WRIST FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT FELL WHILE SHOPPING WITH MOM ; HIT HEAD ON CLOTHES RACK. D: CONTUS ION FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 CLOTHESLINE/CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| LAC TO FOREHEAD, RUNNING @ HOME IN BACKYARD AND RAN INTO A METAL POLE OF CLOTHESLINE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2008 | Age: 10 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 |
| PT SWINGING OFF CLOTHES LINE-FELL- FX FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/11/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| FELL OFF CLOTHESLINE;DX FRACTURED SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Clothing |
| AT HOME PT SLIPPED IN A HOLE WHILE HANGING CLOTHES ON CLOTHESLINE,C/O HAND-WRIST PAIN, DX CONTUSION L HAND & WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| 17YOM AT HOME WALKED INTO A CLOTHESLINE EARLIER TONIGHT,CUTTING EYE;1-CM FACIAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | Age: 16 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: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| NECK STR/16YOM RAN INTO CLOTHES LINE AND HIT NECK. NOW THROAT SORE AFTE R 2 DAYS. HAPPENED IN YARD IN ***. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2008 | Age: 6 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 |
| AT HOME PT SWINGING ON A CLOTHES LINE,C/O R FOREARM PAIN DX R FOREARM FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2008 | 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: Foot | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| 10 YO M AVULSION TO SOLE OF FOOT STEPPED ON METAL CLOTHING RACK* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2008 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Grocery or shopping carts |
| PT WAS IN A SHOPPING CART AT *** WHEN HIS LEG GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN CLOTHE S RACK. D: RIGHT LEG CONTUSION / INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| KNEE ANKLE STRAIN. PT FELL. TRIPPED ON CLOTHING RACK. TWISTED ANKLE & L ANDED ON R KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2008 | Age: 5 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: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| DX: SCALP LAC WHEN FELL AT CLOTHING STORE ON CLOTHES RACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2008 | Age: 66 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: Other |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Clothing |
| TRAUMA RT.FOREARM.PT.REFERS WHILE HANGING CLOTHES ON CLOTHELINES FELL DOWN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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