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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,224
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/04/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| LBP AFTER TAKING UP CARPET DX LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2006 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| FELL ON CARPETED FLOOR AT HOME INJURING ANKLE. DX; ANKLE SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| 29 YOM, WAS LIFTING UP SOME CARPET ABOUT 3 WEEKS AGO, FAIRLY SUDDEN ONSET OF BACK PAIN. DX; STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT WAS PULLING CARPET OUT OF HER GARAGE STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT LIFTING A HEAVY CARPET STRAINED LOWER ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Stairs or steps |
| 33 YEAR OLD FEMALE FELL DOWN CARPETED STEPS AT HOME SPRAINED ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Stairs or steps |
| PT TRIPPED OVER CARPETING AND STRUCK LEFT KNEE AGAINST THE STEPS CONTUS ION KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2006 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT WAS WALKING AND PLANTED RIGHT FOOT ON THE CARPET AND KNEE GAVE WAY S TRAINED KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL ON CARPETED FLOOR AT HOME. ABRASION OF KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2006 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| 38YOM LEFT EYE IRRITATION CARPET INSTALLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Tables |
| MOVING FURNITURE, TRIPPED OVER RUG, HIT HEAD ON CORNER OF TABLE RESULTING IN CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT WAS AROUND HIS NEIGHBORS CARPET AND DEVELOPED SWELLING TO FACE AND I TCHING ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2006 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Knives with replaceable blades |
| PT CUTTING CARPET WITH A RAZOR KNIFE SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2006 | 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: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT STEPPED ON A SPLINTER ON CARPETED FLOOR DX: POSS SPLINTER FB R FOOT W/ EARLY INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT LIFTED 140 LB CARPET PAD 2 DAYS AGO DX: L SHOULDER PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Animal induced injury |
| PT PLAYING WITH HIS DOG AND SLID ON THE CARPET AT HOME STRAINED RIGHT K NEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2006 | Age: 28 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: Concussion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT TRIPPED ON CARPET AT CAFE AND HIT HEAD. DX: CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT LAYING CARPET IN THE HOUSE THIS AM KNEELING ON THE CARPET AND DEVELO PED A RASH TO KNEES CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Towels or cloths |
| PATIENT WAS SCRUBBING CARPET WITH A TOWEL & JAMMED RT MIDDLE FINGER SUSTAINING A MIDDLE FINGER EXTENSOR TENDON RUPTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| 48YOF LANDED ON BOTH KNEES ON CARPETING CONTUSION L KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Other manual workshop tools |
| PT HAD BEEN PULLING UP HER CARPET AND USING A SCRAPPER/ FOREIGN BODY TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 04/02/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Animal induced injury |
| PT WAS AGGRESSIVELY SCRUBBING A CARPET TO CLEAN UP A DOG "MESS" AND FEL T A SNAP IN HER FINGER. DX: BOUTONNIER DEFORMITY LEFT LONG FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2006 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT TRIPPED ON CARPET GOING INTO FRIEND'S HOUSE DX: FX LEFT THUMB, RIGHT 2ND TOE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT LIFTING UP CARPET ON SUNDAY STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PATIENT WAS HELPING SISTER REMOVE SOME CARPETING WHEN A TACK STUCK HIM IN RT INDEX FINGER 1 WK AGO. DX - RT INDEX FELON, INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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