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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 681
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| PT HANGING LIGHTS AT HOME 2 DAYS AGO ALMOST FELL INJURED SHOULDER DX// RIGHT SHOULDER SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| COCCYX CONTUSION: LUMBAR SPASM: PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AT HOME, NO OTHER INFORMATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| SHOCKED WHEN PLUGGED IN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & HAS HAD SEVERAL SYNCOPAL EPISODES SINCE, HIT HEAD ON BRICK HOUSE DX SCALP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| PASSED OUT WHEN UNPLUGGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX SYNCOPE, LIP LACERATON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| SOMETHING GOT INTO EYE WHILE PUTTING XMAS LIGHTS UP, DX; EYE FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders |
| PT HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND FELL OFF THE LADDER SUSTAINED A CONTUSI ON TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN HANGING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| STUCK BY TREE BRANCH WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX: CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| HAD SOMETHING GO INTO RIGHT EYE WHILE TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX: FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders |
| PT WAS TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS OUTSIDE OF HOME WHEN LOST BALANCE A ND FELL3-4FT OFF LADDER ONTO LEFT HAND SUSTAINING A FX TO LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Extension cords |
| PT PUTTING AWAY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND TRIPPED OVER AN EXTENSION CORD ONT O LEFT WRIST STRAINED WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2007 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Bathtubs or showers |
| R FOOT CONT; MILD R ANKLE SPRAIN: THURS. DROPPED CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON FOOT, THIS AM SLIPPED IN SHOWER, REINJURED R FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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