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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 542
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT ROLLED ANKLE AND FELL WHILE GETTING OUT OF CHAIR. DX: R QUADRICEPS STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/22/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Chairs, Artificial Christmas trees |
| PT WAS DECORATING CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN FELL OFF CHAIR ONTO REAR END. NOW WITH LEG NUMBNESS. D: LEG NUMBNESS AND FALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Chairs, Tables |
| C/O LEFT GROIN&THIGH PAIN SINCE MONDAY AFTER FALLING ASLEEP IN CHAIR&L EG WAS UP ON THE TABLE>>MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT PARAPLEGIC WHIL WHILE MOVING BACK TO CHAIR HE HEARD A POPPING SOUND. C/O L KNEE SPASM, NOW L THIGH SWOLLEN. L FEMUR FX, L KNEE SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/30/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT WENT TO SIT IN A CHAIR AND MISSED IT FELT A POP IN THIGH STRAINED T HIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Chairs, Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT WITH PW TO LEG, SAT ON CHAIR THAT HAD A TOOTHPICK ON IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2008 | 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 Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT WAS AT HOME, RAN INTO A CHAIR CAUSING A LACERATION TO LT UPPER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT SAT ON CHAIR W/SHARP EDGE. DX: L POSTERIOR THIGH INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT LEANED BACK WHILE SITTING IN CHAIR& SUSTAINED THIGH PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT WITH FALL OUT OF CHAIR, HAS BUMP TO THIGH |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/03/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Chairs, Light bulbs |
| 38 YO MALE FELL FROM CHAIR WHILE CHANGING LIGHTBULB YESTERDAY FRACTURE FEMUR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Chairs |
| 31 YO FEMALE WALKED INTO CHAIR CONTUSION THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Chairs |
| 49 YO MALE FELL OVER CHAIR FRACTURE FEMUR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT GOT SPLINTER IN THIGH WHEN SHE SCOOTED ON A LAMINATED WOODEN CHAIR, FB THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Chairs |
| PT HAS A HISTORY OF OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA AND FRACTURED FEMUR AFTER F ALLING OFF A CHAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/23/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Chairs |
| FELL WHILE BEING TRANSFERRED TO CHAIR (QUADRAPLEGIC) THIGH CONTUSION * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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