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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,580
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/01/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Windows or window glass, Plastic products |
| PT DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHEN STAPLING PLASTIC TO WINDOWS AT HOME DX:CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT FELL OUT OF WINDOW FROM 2ND STORY. D: SOFT TISSUE INJURY CHEST WAL L |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| TWISTED BACK TRYING TO OPEN WINDOW - STRAIN CHEST AND BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| SPLEEN INJURY, PNEUMOTHORAX, AND FRACTURED CLAVICLE WHEN FELL FROM 2ND STORY WINDOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/23/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| 20 YO M FELL 10 FEET OUT OF WINDOW, R SIDE PAIN. DX R RIB FRACTURES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2002 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| FELL ON BUS HIT FACE AGAINST WINDOW RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| THORACIC SPINE FX-JUMPED FROM A 3RD FLOOR WINDOW-DUE TO A FIRE-AT HOME- FD PRESENT-COHB-8.5 |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/03/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| DX.R APICAL LUNG BLEB VS PNEUMOTHORAX. L MUSCULOSKELETAL STRAIN. FELL 4 STORIES FROM A WINDOW TO CONCRETE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/17/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| CHEST LAC. PT FELL THROUGH A WINDOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PUSHING AN OLD HEAVY WINDOW UP AND STRAINED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| BLUNT TRAUMA TO CHEST FELL FROM 2ND STORY WINDOW |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/11/2002 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| THORACIC STRAIN-@ HOME-FELT PAIN WHILE OPENING A WINDOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT DX MSK PAIN CHEST WALL/ETOH - PT C/O LIFTED HEAVY WINDOWS TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2002 | Age: 68 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: Windows or window glass |
| CONTUSION TO RIBS WHEN FELL FROM WINDOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PATIENT CUT ON BACK BY GLASS FROM BROKEN WINDOW AT HOME; BACK LACS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| CHEST LACERATION MULTIPLE, BEE STING - 42 YOF WAS STUNG BY A BEE THAT G OT INSIDE SHIRT, FELL THROUGH WINDOW LACERATING CHEST 14CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2002 | Age: 8 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: Windows or window glass, Beds |
| JUMPING ON BED @ HOME YESTERDAY, LOST BALANCE & FELL OUT 2ND STORY WIND OW ONTO SCREEN LYING ON GROUND, SIBLING TRIED TO HELP. CONTS CHEST,NECK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2002 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| FELL FROM 2ND STORY WINDOW NO LOC FELL ONTO GRASS 7-8 FT UPPER CHEST, RIGHT FOREARM, LEFT SHOULDER ABRASIONS. DX ABRASIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| STRAINED R CHEST WALL PUSHING HERSELF THROUGH A WINDOW. R CHEST WALL $ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| FELL THROUGH WINDOW DX. RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PATIENT FELL THROUGH WINDOW; CHEST WALL LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| JUMPED OUT OF HER 2ND FLOOR WINDOW IN ORDER TO GET OUT AFTER CURFEW; INJURING HER BACK. FX $ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| FELL THROUGH GLASS WINDOW;LAC CHEST, ARMS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PATIENT JUMPED OUT OF WINDOW AND HAS BACK PAIN. NO DETAILS. D:ABRASIONS MUSCLE STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT WAS STRUCK BY FALLING WINDOW. DX: RIB CONTUSION LEFT CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT COMPLAINT OF BACK PAIN WITH LIFTING WINDOWS, UPPER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2002 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT FELL OUT OF WINDOW.DX: T 12 COMPRESSION FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT LIFTED VINYL WINDOW AT HOME.DX: DORSAL STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2002 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| CHEST PAIN OFF AND ON X 4 DAYS, NOTICED WHILE WASHING WINDOWS, RELIEVES AT REST. DX. ACUTE CHEST PAIN, UNSTABLE ANGINA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/18/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Windows or window glass, Windowsills or frames |
| PATIENT DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE FRAMING A WINDOW AT HOME. D: CHESTPA IN. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/17/2002 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT FELL FROM 2ND STORY WINDOW APPROX 30FT WITH RT RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/23/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Windows or window glass, Ceilings and walls |
| MOM STATES PT FELL INTO A GLASS WINDOW THAT WAS BEING CLEANED, GLASS PR OPPED AGAINST WALL. DX. MULT SUPER. LACS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2002 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| HEARD CRACK IN BACK WHILE OPENING A WINDOW. DX. COMPRESSION FX. T-12 VE RTEBRAE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| CHEST WALL PAIN-AFTER WASHING WINDOWS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2002 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT GOT GLASS IN UPPER BACK WHEN FELL THROUGH WINDOW AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2002 | 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: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| CONTUSION RIB - VICTIM PRESENTS WITH LEFT RIB CAGE PAIN RELATED TO FALL OUT OF 1ST FLOOR WINDOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass, Rope or string |
| PT TRIED TO CLIMB OUT SECOND STORY WINDOW ON ROPE AND FELL. DX: DORSAL STRAIN/CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| WINDOW LACERATED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT. WAS TRYING TO CLOSE WINDOW AND HEARD A POP IN SIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT WAS WRESTLING WITH ANOTHER PERSON AND FELL FROM 2ND STORY WINDOW TO GROUND, C/O PAIN TO SIDE OF CHEST. D: CONTUSION CHEST & RIGHT CVA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2002 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT INJURED BACK CLOSING WINDOW, ACUTE COMPRESSION FX T 5 COSTOCHRENDRIA L STRAIN CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2002 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PT COMPLAINT OF CHEST PAIN WITH OPENING WINDOW, ACUTE R SIDED CHEST PAI N QUESTION HAIRLINE RIB FX MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| TRAUMA RIB CAGE AREA, PT STRUCK BY A FALLING WINDOW AT HOME, C/O PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2002 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| COMPLAINS OF LEFT LOWER RIB PAIN,STATUS POST FALL AGAINST WIN- DOW IN BATHROOM DX: ACUTE 8TH, 9TH RIB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| LARGE SPONTANEOUS LT PNEUMOTHORAX-DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE WASHI NG WINDOWS-LOCALE NOT STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/16/2002 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Windows or window glass |
| PAIN BACK RAD TO R SHOULDER & OVER R BREAST. ONSET YEST.OPENED WINDOW YEST "COLD AIR CAUSED PAIN".DX;SHOULDER,CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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