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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,020
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles, All-terrain vehicles |
| PT RIDING ON AN ATV AND CRASHED INTO A POLE SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO L OWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| LAC TO LEG WHEN STRUCK ON A POLE AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| PT DX LT LEG ABRASION - S/P OF PAIN AFTER PT WALKED INTO A POLE 6 DAYS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| SLID DOWN POLE AND HIT UNNAMED OBJECT;DX LACERATED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2008 | 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: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| LEG LAC FELL OVER POLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles, Slides or sliding boards |
| PLAYING WITH FRIEND AND FELL ON METAL POLE OF SLIDE AND LAC LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| 52 YOF HIT RIGHT SHIN ON METAL POLE AT KFC CONTUSION SHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2008 | 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: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| PT RUNNING AND RAN INTO A METAL POLE SUSTAINED A CONTUSION TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| FELL ON POLE AT SCHOOL;DX CONTUSED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2008 | 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: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Poles |
| INJURIED THE PERITIBAL SITE BY RUNNING INTO A METAL POLE, NOW WITH SKIN REDNESS&SWELLING>>CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| WALKED INTO THREE RAISED METAL POLES ABRADING CALF AND THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| PT WALKED INTO RUSTY METAL POLE AT SCHOOL. D: SHIN LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| RAN INTO METAL POLE/ 6CM LAC LT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| FELL ON METAL POLE;DX LACERATED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| PT TRIPPED AND HIT LEG ON A POLE AT HOME DX: LACERATION RIGHT SHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Poles |
| 14YOM FELL TWO STORIES WHILE TRYING TO TAKE DOWN A FLAG,INJURED LT LEG;LT LEG INJURY,LEFT BEFORE BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| RAN INTO POLE;DX LACERATED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Poles |
| PT DX FOREIGN BODY TO RT LEG - PT RAN INTO A POLE(IMPALED). |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2008 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| CUT RIGHT CALF ON A METAL POLE WHILE PULLING WEEDS LAC RT CALF * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| CUT LEG ON A POLE. DX LEG LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Poles, Two-wheeled, powered, off-road vehicles |
| PT WITH LEG INJURY, HIT A POLE WITH DIRT BIKE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/16/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Poles, Go-carts |
| PATIENT RAN INTO A POLE AT RECESS YESTERDAY, NOW LEG SWOLLEN, TODAY ON GO-CART THAT FLIPPED, CART RAN OVER LEG/FOOT; LEG INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| PT HIT LEG ON METAL POLE & HAS BRUISING AND PAIN ON LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| HIT LEG ON POLE/LOWER LEG CT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| 5YOM WAS WITH GRANDMOTHER FELL IN THE YARD,STRIKING SHIN ON METAL POLE;LEFT SHIN LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Poles |
| POLE FELL ON HIM;DX FRACTURED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| RAN INTO POLE;DX CONTUSED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | 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: Poles, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| L TIB;FIB FX/3YOM WAS SLIDING DOWN A POLE AND LEG CAUGHT BETWEEN POLE A ND TREE CAUSING INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Poles, Roller skating |
| RAN INTO POLE WHEN ROLLERSKATING;DX STRAINED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Poles |
| RAN INTO *** POLE AND *** FIBERS EMBEDDED IN LEG;DX FOREIGN BODY LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2008 | 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: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Poles |
| PT SLIPPED 9FT DOWN POLE,LANDED ON L ANKLE WRONG,FELT A POP DX L DISTAL TIBIAL & FIBULA FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/18/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| HIT LEG ON A METAL POLE AT THE PLAYGROUND LACERATION LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| PT HAS SHIN PAIN AFTER HITTING LEG ON METAL POLE YESTERDAY. D: CONTUSIO N. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| PATIENT GOOFING AROUND AT ***, FELL INTO A METAL POLE WITH LEG;LEG CONT USION, SOFT TISSUE SWELLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Poles |
| TRIPPED AND FELL OVER METAL POLE USED TO BRACE TAILER UP SUST LAC TO R SHIN DX U SHAPED 7 CM LAC R LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Poles |
| FELL AND STRUCK LEG ON LAMP POST ABRADING SHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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