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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,224
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT FELL ON WOODEN BANISTER & GOT A SPLINTER IN HAND DX: FOREIGN BODY LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
| MC FX-FELL DOWN STEPS-HIT RAILING-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Animal induced injury |
| REPORTS 24HOURS AGO, SLIPPED ON ICE WHILE WALKING THE DOG&FELL HITTING HAND AGAINST A WOODEN RAILING>>CONTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
| FOREIGN BODY HAND - 46 YO FEMALE REPORTS WALKING DOWN STAIRS AT HOME AN D SUSTAINED A WOODEN SPLINTER FROM BANNISTER/HANDRAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
| SLIVERS BOTH HANDS/41YOM HERE W/CARETAKER FROM ADULT HOME.PT GOING DOWN STAIRS THIS AM, HOLDING RAILING W/BOTH HANDS & SUSTAINED SLIVERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| STATES CAUGHT FINGERS ON RAILING. STATES PAIN RADIATES TO PALM OF HAND . R HAND STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND - FINGERS/HAND GOT CAUGHT IN HAND RAIL YESTERDAY AS SHE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT CUT HAND ON A NAIL ON A WOODEN RAILING IN A BAR. DX; HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT WAS MOVING AN ITEM WHEN HIT HAND ON A METAL RAILING. D: HAND CONTUSI ON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT SUS LACERATION TO HAND, CUT ON RAILING% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT HIT RT HAND ON RAILING. DX: FRATURE RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT STRUCK HAND ON STAIRWELL RAILING DX; RIGHT 5TH METACARPAL FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| 41 YOF TRIPPED AND HIT RIGHT HAND ON THE RAILING SUSTAINING A CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT STRUCK TOP OF HAND ON METAL CORNER OF STAIR RAILING,C/O PAIN SWELLING, DX HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT STATES THAT A HORSE SLAMMED HIS HAND AGAINST RAILING. DX. L HAND CO NT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2008 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| CONTUSION HAND - 38 YO FEMALE HIT A HAND RAILING IN ANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT S/P HAND SURGERY 2 WK AGO FELL STRIKING HAND ON RAILING AND HAS PX. DX: LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/09/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT WITH CONTUSION TO HAND FROM A RAILING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| HAND LAC-CUT ON RAILING-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| R HAND PAIN, HIT ON RAIL AT HOME DX; HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| CONTUSION TO LEFT HAND - STRUCK HAND ON IRON RAIL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| 44 YO F FOREIGN BODY TO HAND GOT SPLINTER IN HAND FROM RAILLING AT APARTMENT* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| SLID HAND DOWN A WOODEN RAIL, NOW WITH MULTI WOODEN SPLINTER INTO HAND >> FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
| MC FX-TRIPPED-FELL ON STEPS-HIT ROD IRON BANISTER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT C/O TRIPPED LAC HAND ON RAILING. DX LAC RT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| RA INTO RAIL HAND CONTUSION # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/10/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| 42YOF WAS HOME,ACCIDENTLY SLIPPED JAMMING LEFT HAND INTO RAILING; HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT FELL AND HIT STAIR RAILING. DX: R HAND CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2008 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| DX (LWBS) STRUCK HAND AND ARM AGAINST STAIR RAILING |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT HIT HAND ON RAILING AT HOME DX// RIGHT HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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