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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 723
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Containers |
| HEAVY BOXES FELL ON LEG DX: RT LOWER LEG CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Containers |
| PT WAS MOVING A HEAVY BOX 2 DAYS AGO AND NOW C/O FOOT PAIN AND SWELLING . DX: LE EDEMA ETIOL UNCLEAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 37 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: Containers, Scissors |
| DX STAB WOUND, R LOWER LEG, R/O ARTERIAL INJ: PT TRY'G TO OPEN BOX & STAB WD TO R CALF W SCISSORS, REPORTED THRU-&-THRU WD |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/28/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Containers |
| LEG STR. PT STRAINED LEG WHEN MOVING BOXES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Containers |
| INJURED LOWER LEG WHILE LIFTING HEAVY BOX AT HOME, HAS LOWER LEG SPRAIN . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Containers |
| LAC TO LEG WHEN STRUCK ON A CONTAINER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Containers, Knives |
| PT WAS CUT AS HE WALKED NEXT TO A BOX OF KNIVES. DX: L LEG LAC 1 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Containers, Refrigerators |
| 47 YO MALE HAS PAIN TO LEFT CALF AFTER LIFTING BOX INTO REFRIGERATOR LOWER LEG PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Containers |
| 40 YO MALE CRUSHED LEG BETWEEN FORKLIFT AND BOX FRACTURE TIBIA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Containers, Saws |
| R INNER CALF LAC/31YOM AT HOME WAS MOVING A BOX THAT HAD SAW IN IT & SA W CAME THROUGHT BOX SLICING INTO PT'S LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Containers |
| LT LEG CONT: WHILE DOING LANDSCAPING AT HOME BOX FULL OF ROCKS TIPPED AND FELL, HIT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Containers |
| 50 GAL DRUM CAUGHT FIRE & EXPLODED AND PT WAS THROWN 15 FT ON FRIDAY. NO FD. DX: HTN, L LEG CONT, RHABDOMYOLYSIS MILD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Containers |
| PT WAS LIFTING A HEAVY BOX AND FELT A POP IN RIGHT CALF, RIGHT CALF MUSCLE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | 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: Containers, Knives |
| DX L LEG LAC: ACC CUT HER L THIGH WITH A "GERBER" KNIFE WHILE OPENING BOXES WHEN KNIGE SLIPPE AND CUT THROUGH HER FATIGUES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Containers, Knives with replaceable blades |
| RT LOWER LEG LACERATION.PT WAS OPEING A BOX WITH A BOX CUTTER AND LACER ATED LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2008 | Age: 47 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: Containers |
| DX ABRASION, LLE/STASIS DERMATITIS/HX OF CELLULITIS: ONSET AFTER PT SCRATCHED RLE ON A BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2008 | 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: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Containers |
| PT STS POSS SCRAPED R SHIN ON A CRATE DX BILATERAL LOWER EXT LYMPHEDEMA,SKIN ABRASION L EXT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Containers |
| PT DROPPED A BOX ON LT LOWER LEG DX: CONTUSION LT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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