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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,163
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/15/2005 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT DRIVER OF A CAR RAN OFF THE ROAD INTO A FENCE SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEA D INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| FELL GETTING OUT OF CAR, HIT HEAD ON FENCE DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Bicycles or accessories |
| PT HIT HEAD ON FENCE POST WHILE RIDING BIKE DX: CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2005 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT STATES THAT A FENCE FELL ON HER & SHE SUSTAINED A SCALP CONTU- SION & LOW BACK PAIN. DX - SCALP CONTUSION & LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT WAS INVOLVED IN MVA, LEFT THE ROAD, HIT A FENCE. DX-TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, FACIAL BONE FRACTURE, CONTUSION LUNG. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/10/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT WAS INVOLVED IN MVA, RAN INTO A FENCE. DX-PENTRATING TRAUMA TO HEAD, OPEN SKULL FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/03/2005 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Horseback riding |
| CHI; SCALP LAC, PT FELL OFF HORSE WHEN HORSE BACK RIDING AND HIT A FENC E POST |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/17/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Tools |
| SCALP LACERATION.PT WAS PUTTING UP A FENCE AND A TOOL FELL AND HIT PT I N HEAD AND LACERATED SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| C/O PT STATES WAS WORKING ON FENCE FELL AND HIT HEAD DX HEAD CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| FELL AGAINST IRON GATE DX. CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT HURT IN MVA. RAN INTO A FENCE. DX: BLUNT HEAD INJURY TO HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Hammers |
| FELL OFF A FENCE HE WAS WORKING ON AND LANDED ON A HAMMER WITH HIS HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 08/22/2005 | 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: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT WALKING BY FENCE WHEN ETOH DRINKING PRESENTS WITH SCALP LAC LEFT WITHOUT BEEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/17/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| STRUCK HEAD ON ?GATE. ?LOC " CONCUSSION "+"NECK STRAIN " |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT HURT ON FENCE AT HOME. DX: LACERATION TO HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| CHASING DOG THAT JUMPED OVER FENCE AND FELL DOWN EMBANKEMENT RESULTING IN CLOSED HEAD INJ AND MULT ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2005 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| GARAGE GATE HIT PTS HEAD, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT, WHO HAD DONE CRACK COCAINE TONIGHT, WAS RUNNING FROM POLICE. TRIED TO CLIMB 8 FT FENCE AND FELL. D:CLOSED HEAD INJURY, COCAINE PROBLEM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT FELL AGAINST FENCE AT HOME AND SUSTAINED MINOR CONTUSION TO SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT INJURED PULLING HOSE OVER FENCE; LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2005 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| STRUCK IN HEAD BY MECHANICAL ARM AT PARKING GARAGE HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2005 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT WAS DRINKING ALCOHOL & FELL FROM A WALL OR FENCE AT HOME HITTIN G HEAD SUSTAINING A LACER. DX-ALCOHOL INTOX., BHT, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2005 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| CONCUSSION - 36 YOM WAS JUMPING ON A LOW FENCE AND FELL HITTING HIS HEA D |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2005 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT FELL BACK & HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST SOME BRICKS WHILE FIXING A FENCE THIS MORNING. DX - BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA, FINGER ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Farm/ranch | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT WAS ATTEMPTING TO SHUT A GATE AND THE GATE HIT HER IN THE HEAD DX: CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2005 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| HIT HEAD ON FENCE DX. SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2005 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT FORGOT HIS KEYS AND WAS TRYING TO CLIMB OVER THE FENCE TO HIS COMPLE X TO GET HOME WHILE INTOXICATED FELL OFF THE FENCE CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2005 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Softball |
| PLAYING SOFTBALL AND HIT HEAD ON A FENCE LAC IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE GOING THROUGH A GATED COMMUNITY WHEN THE GATE CAME DOWN AND KNOCKED HER OFF THE BIKE CONTUSION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT RIDER OF A MOTORCYCLE GOING THROUGH A GATED COMMUNITY WHEN THE GATE CAME DOWN ON HIS HEAD KNOCKING HIM OFF THE BIKE CONTUSION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT IS +SB DRIVER, SPUN OUT, HITTING A FENCE THEN A PHONE POLE, SUSTAINE D" CONCUSSION'' |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/20/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT SUS HEAD INJURY BY A FENCE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| LAC TOP OF HEAD, HIT ON BARBED WIRE AT CAR LOT. DX. LAC HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT WAS THE RESTRAINED DRIVER IN AN MVC SWERVED TO MISS A CAR AND STRUCK A FENCE CLOSED HEAD INJURY WITH FACIAL LACERATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| HEAD CONTUSION, PT STS WALKING HIS DOG, STRUCK A FENCE AT THE STREET, C/O PAIN, DIZZINESS, NO LOC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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