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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 601
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 WAS AT HOME STOOD UP FAST HITTING A LIGHT FIXTURE CAUSING A LACERATI ON TO SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/06/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | 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 |
| 38 YOF WAS EATING AT A FRIEND'S WHEN THE LIGHTING FIXTURE FELL AND BROK E, PT SUSTAINED A CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 46 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 |
| SCALP LAC, PT FELL HITTING HEAD ON A LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | 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 |
| 47 YO MALE HIT HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE WHEN GETTING UP AT IHOP CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD AT PUBLIC RESTROOM MILD CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | 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 |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL IN THE HALLWAY OF HER APARTMENT HIT BACK OF HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY STRAIN CERVICAL CONTUSION NECK STRAIN THORACIC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2008 | Age: 49 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 49 YO FEMALE HIT HEAD ON CHANDELIER CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | 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 |
| CHI. PT FELL AGAINST A LIGHT FIXTURE HITTING HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | 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 |
| CHI. PT FELL BACKWARDS HITTING BACK OF HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2008 | Age: 42 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: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 42 YO F LACERATION TO SCALP HEAD INJURY LIGHT FIXTURE FELL FROM CEILING * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2008 | 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| REPRTS 2 DAYS AGO ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK HEAD ONTO A CHANDELIER, NOW PRESE NE WITH WORSENING HEADACH&NAUSEA >> CLOSED HEAD INJUREY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2008 | Age: 36 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 |
| PORCH LIGHT FELL AND HIT PATIENT IN HEAD SCALP LACERATION # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| 39 YO HIT HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 33 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| DX VERTIGO/HEAD CONTU: HIT TOP OF HEAD ON LAMP ATTACHED TO WALL, ONSET ON VERTIGO W NAUSEA SINCE ACC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | 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 STATES STOOD UP AND HIT HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE DX CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | 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 |
| PT WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A CEILING LAMP FELL OINTOP OF HEAD SUSTAIN ED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| 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 |
| STOOD UP AND HIT HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE YESTERDAY C/O FEELS STRANGE AND DIZZY DX- HEAD CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | 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 |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD AT ***CLOSED HEAD INJURY CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | 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, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FELL 8-10 FT FROM CHANDELIER ONTO CONCRETE FLOOR. DX: SCALP LAC 2 CM, ATE 2/2 ETOH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 28 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT STRUCK HEAD ON A BROKEN CHANDELIER SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO SCALP C LOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2008 | Age: 47 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PAT SUS CONTUSION TO HEAD AFTER LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HIS HEAD% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | 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 |
| CHI-FACE LAC-PLASTIC COVER OF LIGHT FELL ON PT-@ CHILD'S DANCE STUDIO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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