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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 726
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/02/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| OUT WALKING DOG AND HIT RIBS ON METAL RAILING CONTUSING CHEST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2003 | Age: 37 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: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT HIT RIB ON STAIR RAIL. DX: RIB CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT STATES SHE WAS PULLED OVER PORCH RAILING BY HER DOG STRIKING RIBS ON RAILING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| SLIPPED & FELL WHEN SHE GRABBED A BANISTER UNAWARE IT WAS LOOSE. ACUTE RT RIB FX (8TH & 9TH) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2003 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| RIGHT LOWER RIB PAIN. SLIPPED ON GRASS AND HIT CHEST ON A RAILING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| CHEST PAIN.. PT WAS SITTING ON A RAILING WHEN HE DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/08/2003 | Age: 35 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: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN HANDRAIL & PEOPLE AT ROCK CONCERT. DX: CHEST WALL STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2003 | Age: 35 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: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
| CONTUSION CHEST - PATIENT COMPLAINS OF PAIN ON DEEP BREATH AND REPORTS HE FELL AGAINST DECK RAILING AT HOME WHEN RUNNING UP STAIRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2003 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| FELL AGAINST RAILING DX. RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2003 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | 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: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| LEFT CHEST WALL CONTUSION. FELL AGAINST BANNISTER 2 DAYS AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PATIENT BENT OVER A METAL RAIL, FOOT SLIPPED AND HE SUSTAINED A FIB FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| BUMPED RIB CAGE AGAINST BANISTER YESTERDAY. ACUTE STRAIN CHEST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2003 | Age: 47 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: Other |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| 47 YO F HOLDING ON TO RAILING DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2003 | Age: 48 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: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| FELL STRUCK RIBS ON RAILING - CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2003 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| FELL OVER A RAILING LEFT RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2003 | Age: 44 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: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| FELL AND HIT RAILING - RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Ice skating |
| WHILE SKATING AT ICE FOLLIES, PT FELL, LANDED ON SIDERAIL, CONTUSION TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT RAN INTO WOODEN STAIR RAIL POST INJURED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2003 | Age: 46 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: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT LOST BALANCE AND BUMPED UP AGAINST SAFETY RAIL, BACK CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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