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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,941
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/16/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| CONTUSED ELBOW,FELL ON SWIMMING POOL WHEN TRIPPED OVER DOG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| STRAINED NECK IN SWIMMING POOL AT WATER PARK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2007 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT WAS FOUND FACE DOWN FLOATING IN ABOVE-GROUND POOL AT GRANDPARENT'S H OUSED/NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 09/03/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| PLAYING ON DECK WITH SIBLING & FRIENDS & GOT INTO ABOVE GROUND POOL, FO UND FACE DOWN/NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/02/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT HIT FOOT ON BOTTOM OF POOL, RIGHT TOE FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2007 | Age: 52 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: Above-ground swimming pools, Swimming pool equipment |
| PT WAS VACUUMING ABOVE GROUND POOL WHEN THOUGHT THERE WAS A STEP AND FE LL 4 FEET LANDING ON SHOULDER. D: SHOULDER INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| SLIPPED&LEG STUCK B/T DECK &THE SWIMMING POOL >> CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| 6 YOF SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO PERINEAL AREA FROM SIDE OF METAL ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| FRACTURE ELBOW - 3 YO MALE FELL WHEN GETTING OUT OF A SOFT SIDE POOL - LANDED ON RIGHT ARM - DEFORMITY NOTED ON RIGHT ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Alcohol |
| PT FELL OFF SIDE OF ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL,C/O MID BACK PAIN, +ETOH |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 08/11/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| SYNCOPAL EPISODE PER HX: WHILE AT SWIMMING POOL, GOT DIZZY, NAUSEATED, "PASSED OUT" PER POOL PERSONNEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Stepladders |
| PATIENT ATTEMPTING A BACK FLIP FROM STEP LADDER INTO 4 FT POOL AT HOME, HIT HEAD ON BOTTOM OF POOL, INITIAL NECK NUMBNESS; MINOR HEAD INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PATIENT SITTING ON METAL FRAME OF POOL, FELL AND HIT FOREARM ON METAL; BOTH BONE FOREARM FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT FELL BACK WHILE GETTING INTO 3 FOOT POOL AT HOME TODAY DX// LUMBAR SPRAIN AND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT GETTING INTO AN ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL AND SLIPPED STRAINED RIGH T KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| IN INFLATEABLES, FELL INTO ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL, WENT UNDER WATER FOR 2SEC, PULLED UP IMM, BIB MOTHER FOR EVAL "SUBMERSSION" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2007 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Flotation toys |
| PT WAS USING A FLOTATION TOY IN POOL AND INJURED THIGHS FROM RUBBING DX: ABRASIONS TO BOTH THIGHS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT FELL AGAINST CEMENT POOL LAST WEEK INJURING HAND NOW HAND IS RED & SWOLLEN, DX: CELLULITIS RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| FELL ON THE EDGE OF AN ABOVE GROUND POOL. STRADDELING EDGE AND HAS LAC TO VAGINAL AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2007 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| CERVICAL STRAIN WHEN DOVE INTO AN ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL AND STRUCK BOTTOM OF POOL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Flotation toys |
| 33 YOF, WAS IN BACKYARD SWIMMING POOL ON A FLOTATION DEVICE, FLOATED TO EDGE AND FELL OUT OF POOL, HITTING HEAD ON CONCRETE. DX; CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Swimming |
| PT X TODAY WHILE IN THE ABOVE GROUND FAMILY POOL WAS FOUND UNDERWATER F ACE UP.PT SWIMMING ALL DAY. DX. NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Swimming |
| 13 Y/O M INJURED BRIDGE OF NOSE WHEN HIT METAL RIM OF SWIMMI9NG POOL WH ILE SWIMMING AT HOME. DX; LAC NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PATIENT SUSTAINED A SUNBURN 4 DAYS AGO, NOW BECAUSE HE RUBBED IT AGAINST THE POOL, HE RUPTURED BULLAE ON HIS BACK. DX-SEVERE SUNBURN PN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT 'S MOTHER STATES CHILD FELL INTO 4 FOOT POOL AND WAS PULLED OUT BY ANOTHER CHILD, CHILD WAS FINE BY COUGHING, DX; COUGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2007 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| DX LACERATION LEFT FOOT: STEPPED ON POOL PUMP AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT FELL OFF OF SIDE OF ABOVE GROUND POOL YEST AND FELL ONTO R ARM. DX. SPRAIN, STRAIN, CONT R FA, WRIST, ELBOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Manual cleaning equipment |
| LAC. TO CHEEK: PLAYING OUTSIDE AT AUNT'S,OTHER CHILD IN ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL THREW PLASTIC SCRUB BRUSH OUT OF POOL,STRIKING PT'S FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Swimming pool equipment |
| GETTING OUT OF ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL, FELL OFF THE STEPS DX SHOULDER CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2007 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PATIENT FELL ONTO HER BUTTOCKS WHILE AT THE POOL TODAY FRACTURING HER PELVIS. DX-CLOSED PELVIC FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2007 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Swimming pool equipment |
| PT INJ HAND WHILE TRYING TO LIFT LADDER FROM POOL/FINGER CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | 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: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT AT HOME FELL INTO A 4FT EMPTY ABOVE GROUND POOL INJ R HIP KNEE AND A NKLE / DX CONTUSION ABRASIONS R KNEE ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2007 | Age: 21 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: Above-ground swimming pools |
| C/O PT STATES JUMPED INTO ABOVE THE GROUND POOL DX FACIAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2007 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Knives |
| LACERATES FINGER WITH POCKET KNIFE SLIPPED WHILE ASSEMBLING AN ABOVE GR OUND SWIMMING POOL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2007 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| 27YOM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DISMANTLING HIS SWIMMING POOL,ACCIDENTLY CUT HIMSELF AGAINST A SHARP METAL EDGE; KNEE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| FINGER DISLOCATION-HIT FINGER WHILE INSTALLING POOL LINER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2007 | Age: 11 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: Above-ground swimming pools |
| 11 YO F RIB CAGE AND ABD PAIN FELL OFF PLATFORM OF ABOVE GROUND POOL* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT WAS PUTTING UP AN ABOVE-GROUND SWIMMING POOL, STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2007 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PATIENT WAS JUMPING INTO AN ABOVE GROUND POOL AND HIT SOMETHING DISLO ACTION 5TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2007 | 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: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| PT FELL ON THE DECK OF AN ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL STRIKING CHEST CONTUSION RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| DISLOCATED L 5TH FINGER WHILE HELPING TO ASSEMBLE ABOVE-GROUND POOL @ H OME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools |
| FELL LIFTING ABOVE GROUND POOL/LUMBAR FX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/14/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Above-ground swimming pools, Glass doors or doors with glass panels |
| FOUND IN ABOVE-GROUND POOL,WENT THRU SLIDING GLASS DOOR, NEW CUTS ON FA CE, NO RESPIRATORY DISTRESS, TEMP 93; SUBMERSION, HYPOTHERMIA |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
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