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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,180
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/25/2006 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| P/W FACIAL SWELLING S/P PORTION OF CEILING DUST C MIDLEW LANDED ON HIM " ALLERGIC RXN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2006 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| ~PT FOUND BY CARETAKER. ?FALL LAST NIGHT. BLOOD ON WALL. +LOC. PT UNABL E TO PROVIDE MUCH HX RE; EVENTS. D:SYNCOPE, UTI, SEPSIS, DEHYDRATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/17/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FAMILY REMODLING, WIND BLOWS AIR C CHALKY SMELL THRU A HOLE IN THE WALL , C/O COUGH&EYE IRRITATIN " LEAD POISONING" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2006 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FAMILY REMODLING, DUST COMES FROM OUTSIDE THRU A HOLE IN THE WALL, P/W EYE IRRITATION&CHALKY TASTE IN THE MOUTH " LEAD POISONING" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| THERE IS A HOLE IN THE WALL& AIR IS COMING THRU,P/W CHALKY TASTE IN MOU TH&EYE IRRITATION " LEAD DUST EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2006 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT HAD SAME LEVEL FALL INTO A WALL. C/O DIZZINESS, WEAKINESS. D : ENCEPHALOPATHY. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/19/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Alcohol |
| PT WAS PUSHED INTO A WALL DX: ETOH ABUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2006 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| ~PT FELT HOT, ROOM SPINNING- FELL AND HIT HEAD ON WALL~ VASOVAGAL EPISODE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| WALKED INTO WALL AND GOT KNOCKED OUT BUT LEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 09/04/2006 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Motorized vehicles |
| PT FELL OUT OF HER ELECTRIC SCOOTER AND GOT WEDGED BETWEEN THE SCOOTER AND A WALL FOR A LONG TIME DIFFUSE MUSCLE ACHES RHABDOMYOLYSIS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/20/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Alcohol |
| DEPRESSED,RECENT HEAVY ETOH USE,FOUND UNRESPONIVE,FALL THRU BATHROOM WA LL DX: FULL ARREST,HX ETOH.(CORONER'S CASE)NO EXPLAINATION FOR DEATH |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/18/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Adhesives |
| WASHING WALLS TO REMOVE GLUE AND NOT WEARING GLOVES AND HAS HAND PAIN A DMITTED EXPOSURE TO HYDROGEN FLUORIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/07/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Beds or bedframes |
| DIZZY AND FELL OUT OF BED AND BANGED HEAD ON WALL RESULTING FROM VERTIG O |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2006 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| SYNCOPE EPISODE, FELL, HIT HEAD ON BATHROOM WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2006 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| MULTIPLE TRAUMA.PT FELL THROUGH CEILING AND ONTO CONCRETE FLOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2006 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| HIT HEAD ON WALL WHEN WALKING AT HOME, FELL DOWN BECAME BLUE, STOPPED BREATHING FEW SECONDS; BREATHHOLDING SPELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2006 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Clothes dryers |
| PT C/O SMOKE INHALATION AFTER BEING IN HOUSEFIRE WHICH STARTED ON WALL DUE TO DRYER MALFUNCTIONING....FIRE DEPT DID ATTEND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2006 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| 22 YO MALE WAS CRAWLING THROUGH CEILING AND TOUCHED 277V WIRE THAT SHOCKED HIS HAND - ELECTRIC SHOCK RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2006 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| 82 YO MALE FELL INTO WALL AND THEN TO FLOOR PNEUMONIA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/14/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PARENTS CONCERNED DUST FROM CEILING FALLING IN CAUSING COUGH, ALSO HAS FEVER, EAR PAIN; COUGH, VIRAL SYNDROM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PARENTS CONCERNED THAT DUST FROM CEILING FALLING IN CAUSING COUGHING, A LSO WITH FEVER, EAR PAIN; COUGHING, RESPIRATORY INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| BROTHER'S ROOM HAS HOLE IN WALL WHERE PT PLAYING, INGESTED LEAD PAINT, HIGH LEAD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING/TOXICITY |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/11/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 28 YOF SAW FIRE COMING OUT OF HER CEILING , CALLED FIRE DEPARTMENT, SH E INHALED SMOKE . DX SMOKE INHALATION. FIRE DEPT ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT BUMPED HEAD ON WALL PRIOR TO FULL BODY SEIZURE, SMALL BRUISE TO TEMP ORAL AREA, POSSIBLE RUPTURE OF EAR DRUM & INFECTED D-FEBRILE CONVULSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2006 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| 86 YO FEMALE SLID DOWN WALL TO FLOOR DEHYDRATION - FALL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/25/2006 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| WIFE HEARD HIM FALL, HAD SYNCOPE EPISODE AND HIT THE WALL HE WAS ADMITTED |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/16/2006 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FELL IN BATHROOM AND SLID DOWN WALL ONTO FLOOR, FELT WEAK |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/12/2006 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT IS A PRIEST & WAS WALKING TO ST JOSEPH'S PARISH WHEN HE FELL OVER A SMALL WALL IN THE SNOW STORM , LANDED THERE FOR 3 HRS BEFORE FOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/30/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| CARDIAC ARREST - SLUMPED OVER AGAINST WALL |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 01/24/2006 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT C/O FALL. PT PASSED OUT HIT HEAD ON WALL. DX SYNCOPE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT C/O VOMITING/DIARRHEA, FELL IN HALLWAY HITTING HEAD ON A WALL, NO LO C DX: DEHYDRATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2006 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| CHOKED ON PILLS AND PASSED OUT AND STRUCK THE WALL SYNCOPE AND RIB TEND ERNESS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/16/2006 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL AGAINST WALL/TIA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/12/2006 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT C/O GENERAL WEAKNESS, FELL, HITTING HEAD ON WALL , NO INJ NOTED |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/05/2006 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Liquid drugs |
| RECEIVED IMMUNIZATIONS AT DR OFFICE, PASSED OUT LIGHTLY HITTING HEAD ON WALL, HAD SEIZURE-LIKE ACTIVITY, SHAKING ALL OVER; VASOVOGAL SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2006 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Beds or bedframes |
| PT WAS JUMPING ON THE BED AND HIT HEAD ON THE CEILING, AFTER EPISODE, E YES BEGAN FLUTTERING & PT BECAME UNRESPONSIVE. D : SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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