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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,045
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers |
| PT BENT OVER TO REACH FOR SOMETHING IN THE FREEZER WHEN FELT A POP IN CHEST. DX: CONTUSION TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Freezers |
| MOVING FREEZER YEST.; FEELS LIKE PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK/UPPER CHEST. A CUTE MYOFASCIAL STRAIN THORACIC; LT PECTORALIS STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers |
| PT LEANING TO FREEZER-CONTUSION UPPER CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Freezers |
| STATES WAS LEANING OVER THE FREEZER DEFROSTING IT AND STARTED HAVING LT RIB PAIN. DX: NONDISPLACED FX ANTERIOR LT 6TH RIB* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Freezers |
| PT FELL AND HIT FREEZER. DX: LEFT 3RD RIB ANTERIOR FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Freezers |
| PT HAD A SEIZURE AND FELL BACKWARDS STRUCK RIBS AGAINST A FREEZER FRACT URED RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Freezers, Beds or bedframes |
| PT WAS CLEANING OUT FREEZER 2 WKS AGO AND EXPERIENCED PAIN UNDER R BREA ST, GOT WORSE TODAY AFTER MAKING BED. DX. MYOFASCIAL STRAIN CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers, Stairs or steps |
| WAS MOVING A FREEZER DOWN SOME STEPS; FREEZER SLIPPED AND STRUCK HIM IN THE CHEST. CONTUSION TO CHEST WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Freezers |
| FELL AGAINST FREEZER, DX; COMP FX T7 |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/29/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Freezers |
| BENT OVER DEEP FREEZER FELT POP CHEST WALL STRAIN # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF THE CHEST BY CAR BACKING UP PINNING PT ACC IDENTAL PINNING PT AGAINST A FREEZER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers |
| PT. SITTNG ON FLOOR, BROTHER SITTNG ON TOP OF CHEST STYLE FREEZER, JUMP ED DWN, LANDING ON TOP OF PT. XR NEG. DX: CHEST CONTUSION# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers |
| RT RIB CONTUSION.PT WAS BENDING OVER A FREEZER AND FELT A POP IN RIBS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Freezers |
| DX L AREOLA LAC: PT SUSTAINED INJURY AS LID OF FREEZER CHEST CLOSED ONT ONTO PT CHEST (PLASTIC PART AFFIXED TO LID) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT AT *** LEANING OVER THE FREEZER SLIPPED ON WET FLOOR STRUCK CHEST ON THE OPEN RIM OF THE FREEZER CONTUSION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Freezers |
| RT UPPER BACK PAIN FOR PAST FEW DAYS. WAS LIFTING SOME HEAVY MATERAIL W HILE CLEANING OUT FREEZER. DX: RIGHT UPPER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Freezers |
| CHEST WALL PAIN - PULLED MUSCLE WHILE PULLING A LARGE QUANITY OF MEAT OUT OF HER FREEZER LAST NIGHT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Freezers, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| CONTUSION THORACIC AND CERVICAL SPINE - 48 YO FEMALE WAS LEANING OVER T O GET SOMETHING OUT OF CHEST FREEZER - HIT SHELF & PANS FELL ON HER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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