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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,561
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2007 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| PT STATES A PENDANT LIGHT FELL FROM CEILING AT CONVENTION CENTER, PT HE ARD IT POP, HIT FINGER-BURN TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL/FACIAL CT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| REACHED TO CLEAN LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME, C/O SHOULDER PAIN. DX-DISLOCATED RIGHT SHOULDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 32 YOM CUT FINGER ON LIGHT FIXTURE LAC FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| THE GLASS GLOBE FROM CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE FELL, STRIKING PT ON SIDE OF HEAD. DX: NECK PAIN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/11/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| A CHANDELIER FELL ON PT INJURING EAR. DX: EAR LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 32 YOM WAS MOVING A LIGHT FIXTURE AND LACERATED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| A LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON PT WRIST. DX: WRIST LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2007 | Age: 29 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: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| MULTIPLE HAND LACERATIONS: GOT MAD, HIT LIGHT CEILING GLOBE, RT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LAC TO WRIST WHEN PART OF A OVERHEAD LIGHT FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT.INJ.FOREHEAD AT HOME WHEN LIGHT FIXTURE BROKE & CUT HER. DX; 1 CM.LA C.FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2007 | 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| PT STRUCK HEAD IN LIGHT FIXTURE ON LOW BASEMENT CEILING. DX: SUPERFICIAL SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 49 YOF LACERATED HER LEFT INDEX FINGER ON A BROKEN LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PATIENT WAS AT HIS WEDDING CHANGING A GLASS LIGHT FIXTURE, IT BROKE CUTTING HIS LEFT THUMB. DX-LEFT THUMB LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT TRIED TO CATCH FALLING LIGHT FIXTURE IN APARTMENT AND GLOBE BROKE LA CERATING FINGER. D:LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| WALKED INTO LIGHT FIXTURE AND LAC FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| 32 YO LIGHT FIXTURE FELL FROM CEILING STRUCK IN HEAD CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT WAS CUT WHEN FRIEND KNOCKED GLASS LAMPSHADE OFF CEILING. DX: R HAND LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT WORKING ON LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME LAST NIGHT AND SOMETHING WENT INTO EYE DX// FB RIGHT EYE RESOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FOREARM LAC-CUT ON LIGHT FIXTURE-IN GARGE @ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| MOVING ALUMINUM LIGHT FIXTURES FROM STORAGE BUILDING AND ONE SLIPPED, CUTTING SHOULDER LACERATION RT SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 38 YO INJURED FINBGER ON HANGING GLOBAL LIGHT FIXTURE LAC FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PATIENT LACERATED FINGER ON CHANDELIER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT SCREWING IN A GLASS LIGHT FIXTURE AND IT BROKE SUSTAINED A LACERATI ON TO INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2007 | Age: 35 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: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LAC HAND PUTTING UP A LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LAC L UPPER ARM; @ HOME, WORKIGN WITH LIGHT FIXTURE WHICH BROKE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 44 YO M LACERATION TO FINGER PUT HAND UP WHILE DRESSING AND HIT HAND ON LIGHTING FIXTURE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT WITH HEAD LAC FROM STRIKING LIGHT FIXTURE WITH HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 28 YOM WAS DOING HOUSEWORK AND PLACING LIGHT IN CEILING AND SOCKET FELL INTO CHEST CAUSING A LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FINGER LAC-CUT ON EDGE OF LIGHT FIXTURE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| CUT FINGER ON LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| 47 YO FEMALE HAD LIGHT FIXTURE FALL FROM CEILING AND HIT HEAD LACERATION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Beds or bedframes |
| PT HAD A LIGHT FIXTURE FALL FROM THE CEILING ONTO HIS HAND WHICH WAS ON A BED POST LACERATION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| ELECTRIC LIGHT FIXTURE FELL/HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT DROPPED A LIGHT FIXTURE ON ARMDX: LT ARM LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT INJURED WRIST ON METAL LIGHTING FIXTURE AT HOME TODAY DX// LAC LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FINGER LAC-CUT ON METAL LIGHT FIXTURE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2007 | Age: 48 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| 48 YO MALE HAD LIGHT FIXTURE FALL FROM CEILING ONTIL HEADCLOSED HEAD IN JURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FLASS LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON KNEEKNEE LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| GLASS FROM LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD/ SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT CUT RIGHT FOREARM ON GLASS CHANDELIER, DX 1CM LACERATION TO R FOREARM W/ POSS RETAINED GLASS/FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| 35 YO MALE WAS HIT IN TOP OF HEAD WITH LIGHT FIXTURE AND CEILING TILECL OSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| CONTUSION TO ARM WHEN A LIGHT FIXTURE FELL AND STRUCK ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT C/O HEADACHE - REPORTS HITTING HEAD AGAIND CHANDELIER. DX CONCUSSION OF THE HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LAC TO R KNEE WHEN LIGHT FIXTURE FELL AND HIT KNEE. DX. LAC R KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| TAKING DOWN A LIGHT FIXTURE AND CUT FINGER ON THE METAL RIM LACERATION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2007 | Age: 40 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| HAD CHANDELIER FALLEN ONTO HEAD, NO LOC, P/W VISUAL CHANGES " CHI" +" TR EYE INJ" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2007 | Age: 40 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| STRUCK ON HEAD BY FALLING LIGHT FIXTURE WHILE SITTING, C/O DOUBLE VISIO N&NAUSEA " RETINAL PSEUDOHOLE" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2007 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 39 YO MALE BUMPED HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE IN ATTICFACIAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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