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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 480
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| PATIENT FELL STRIKING HIS HEAD ON THE REFRIGERATOR. DX-CONCUSSION, 6 CM COMPLEX FACIAL LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| PT HIT HEAD ON REFRIGERATOR; CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2003 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| PATIENT HIT THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD ON THE REFRIGERATOR AT HOME. DX-CONCUSSION, HEADACHE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2003 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| PT STRUCK TOP OF HEAD AGAINST A REFRIGERATOR THEN SUSTAINED A LACERATIO N THEN GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| AT HOME AT 1500, WAS LEANING INTO OPEN REFRIGERATOR, STOOD UP HITTING LEFT POSTERIOR PARIETAL AREA ON FREEZER. DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2003 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| HIT HEAD ON REFRIGERATOR DOOR. DX. 2.5 CM LACERATION R FRONTAL SCALP, M INOR HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Refrigerators, Floors or flooring materials |
| HAS ONGOING MIGRAINES, AT HOME, BECAME LIGHTHEADED, HIT HEAD ON REFRIGERATOR AND FELL TO THE FLOOR. DX MIGRAINE HEADACHE, NEAR SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| 41 Y.O. W FEMALE W/HEAD PAIN. PT HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE & FELL AGAINST TH E REFRIGERATOR @ HOME. PT ADM. E8889 |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/12/2003 | Age: 35 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: Refrigerators |
| PATIENT STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A COOLER IN THE STORE. DX-CONTUSION RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| 35 YO M RAN INTO REFRIGERATOR CORNER, CUT HEAD. DX R SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Refrigerators |
| FELL AGAINST REFRIGERATOR DX. HEAD CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2003 | 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: Refrigerators, Balloons |
| PT AT HOME DURING A SUPERBOWL PARTY WAS CLIMBING UP ON THE REFRIGERATOR TO RETRIEVE SOME BALLOONS WHEN HE FELL STRIKING HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJUR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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