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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 669
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | 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: Wheelchairs, Toilets |
| QUADRIPLEGIC PT TRANSFERRING SELF FROM WHEELCHAIR TO TOILET WHEN SHE FELL. D: CHEST CONTUSION, RIB PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2002 | Age: 40 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: Wheelchairs |
| PUSHING SON IN WHEELCHAIR DURING SNOW STORM MID BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PT LOST BALANCE AND FELL DOWN FROM WHEELCHAIR AND C/O PAIN TO THE BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| BACK PAIN THORACIC.FELL BACKWARD IN WHEELCHAIR.DX BACK CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PT C/O PAIN TO THE LT BREAST DUE TO HITTING IT ON WHEELCHAIR DURING MVA AS RESTRAINED BACK SEAT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| 40-YOF SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF HER CHEST AS A RESULT OF FALLING OUT O F HER WHEELCHAIR ON THE STREET. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PATIENT IN WHEELCHAIR GOING OVER CURB WHEN HE FELL 6" FIVE DAYS AGO. C COMPLAINING OF BACK PAIN. D: SHINGLES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| PT CROSSING THE STREET AT THE CROSSWALK IN A WHEELCHAIR WHEN SHE FELL O UT OF THE WHEELCHAIR STRIKING CHEST CONTUSION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 42 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: Wheelchairs |
| CEREBRAL PALSY PATIENT ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE SEAT CUSHION OFF WHEEL-CHAI R AND STRAINED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Beds |
| THORACIC BACK PAIN LIFTED A PT FROM WHEELCHAIR TO BED DX: THORACIC BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Floors or flooring materials |
| SLIPPED AND FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR TO FLOOR IN BATHROOMCONTUSION LEFT P OSTERIOR CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| RIB FRACTURES,MULTIPLE TRAUMA.PT WAS IN WHEELCHAIR CROSSING A ROAD ANDW AS STRUCK BT A CAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/06/2002 | Age: 36 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: Wheelchairs, Ramps or landings |
| CHEST PAIN- SUSTAINED WHEN HE WAS PUSHING HIS MOM IN A WHEELCHAIR THR OUGH THE RAMP IN THE HOUSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/05/2002 | Age: 33 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: Wheelchairs |
| FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR DX. RIB CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Pipes |
| UPPER (R) CHEST HURTS. LEANING ON WHEEL CHAIR LIFTING HEAVY PIPES. CHES T WALL TENDER. PAIN W/DEEP BREATHS. DX: CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Beds |
| PT LIFTED FATHER FROM WHEELCHAIR TO BED. DX: ACUTE MID THORACIC STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Basketball |
| FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR WHILE PLAYING WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL DX: DORSAL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Wheelchairs, Lawn mowers |
| FX 8TH RIB. PT LOST CONTROL OF WHEELCHAIR GOING DOWN A RAMP AND LA NDED INTO A LAWNMOWER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| IN PSYCH HOSP, SOB & CP, INJ TO FT RECENTLY, TX, AFTER THAT IN WHE ELCHAIR FOR 2 DAYS, CALF DISCOMFORT. ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN, PE, DVT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Wheelchairs |
| RIGHT RIB FX. PT FELL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR AND HIT CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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