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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,271
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2009 | Age: 2 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL AT HOME AND STRUCK HIS HEAD ON LAMP. NO LOC. BUMP O N HEAD. DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2009 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| LAMP FELL ON PT'S HEAD AT HOME CAUSING LACS TO L TEMPLE AND TOP OF HEAD . DX. LAC SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 5 YOM LAMP FELL ON HIM, HIT HEAD DX: BHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2009 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 7 YOM INJURED HEAD FROM LAMP FALLING ON HEAD, GLASS SHATTERED. DX-MINOR HEAD INJURY, SCALP LACERATION, ABRASION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2009 | Age: 35 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| C/O WORSENING H/A THAT DEV. AFTER HITTING HEAD ON A HANGING LAMP THIS A M>>CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2009 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| HIT HEAD ON HEAVY LAMP. DX-MINOR HEAD INJURY # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2009 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| A LAMP FELL ON PT'S HEAD. DX: HEAD CONT/HEMATOMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2009 | Age: 9 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT WAS @ HOME FELL HITTING BACK OF HEAD ONTO A LAMP. DX HEAD LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2009 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| HEAD CONTUSION.PT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON A LAMP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2009 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT HIT HEAD ON LAMP IN EXAM ROOM, HAS A HEADACHE DX;# HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps, Light bulbs |
| PT KICKED BY SIBLING, FELL INTO LAMP, LIGHTBULB SHATTERED & CUT SCALP; SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2009 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT SIBLING KNOCKEDOVER A GLASS LAMP THAT BORKE, PT HAD A PIECE OF THE BROKEN GLASS EMBEDDED IN HIS SCALP, DX: REMOVAL FB FROM SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| TABLE LAMP FELL AND HIT PT ON HEAD PT HAS LAC TO TOP OF HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2009 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| A LAMP FELL ON PT'S HEAD. DX HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2009 | Age: 9 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| HIT HEAD ON FLOOR LAMP AT HOME DX: LAC TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| A LAMP FELL AND BASE HIT PATIENT ON HEAD; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 29 Y O M GRABBING FOR SOMETHING ACCIDENTLY GRABBED LAMP CORD STANDING LAMP FELL ON HIS HEAD CONCUSSION LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2009 | Age: 32 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| WIFE HIT IN HEAD WITH LAMP DX: CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2009 | Age: 64 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT TRYING TO KILL A BUG AND IN SO DOING TRIPPED ON THE CORD OF A LAMP T HAT FELL ONTO HER HEAD SUSTAINED A SCALP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2009 | Age: 4 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: Floor lamps or table lamps, Tables |
| ACC STRUCK ONTO THE HEAD WITH A15# BRASS LAMP WHEN TABLE FELL ON HIM, N O LOC/N/V>>CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2009 | Age: 64 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| TRIPPED ON LAMP CORD AND FELL CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2009 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT REPORTS APPROX 29 HRS AGO - SHE LEANED OVER & A LAVA LAMP FELL ONTO HER HEAD. HEAD CONTUSION, DIZZINESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| CONTUSION TO HEAD WHEN STRUCK ON A FLOOR LAMP AT DRS OFFICE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2009 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT WALKED INTO A LAMP, DX: HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2009 | Age: 2 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| FELL AND HIT HEAD ON CORNER LEDGE OF LAMPLEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/07/2009 | Age: 2 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| SCALP LAC/2YOM AT HOME WAS PLAYING WHEN LAMP FELL ON HIS HEAD CAUSING L ACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 73 YOM FELL AT HOME AND HIT HEAD ON LAMP CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 53YO AMERICAN INDIAN FEMALE STS A LAMP FELL ON TOP OF HEAD DX HEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2009 | Age: 10 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| FELL STRUCK HEAD ON LAMP LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT A LAMP FELL ON PTS HEAD AT HOME TODAY DX// SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PULLED LAMP ON HEAD LACERATION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| LAMP FELL AND HIT PT IN HEAD DX: HEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2009 | Age: 3 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT PRESENT TO ER AFTER CUT TO HEAD AND LAMP FELL ON PT- DX- BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2009 | Age: 88 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 88 YOF ATTEMPTED TO TURN OFF LIGHT SWITCH TO LAMP AND FELL HITTING HEAD AND RIGHT SIDE SUSTAINING CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2009 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| CHI WHEN SHE FELL BACKWARDS AT SCHOOL AND HIT HEAD ON A FLOOR LAMP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2009 | Age: 8 months | 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT PULLED ON CORD TO A LAMP YEST AND IT FELL STRIKING HIM ON L SIDE OF FOREHEAD. HAS BUMP ON FOREHEAD. DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2009 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| LAMP FELL AND HIT PT ON THE HEAD. D: LACERATION FOREHEAD ; CONCUSSION WITHOUT LOC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 2 YOF STRUCK ON THE HEAD BY FALLING LAMP SUSTAINING A LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2009 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| CUT TO HEAD WHEN A LAMP FELL ONTO PTS HEAD. D : LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2009 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| LAC TO HEAD WHEN STRUCK ON A LAMP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT WITHI CONTUSION TO HEAD, A LAMP FEL ON PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2009 | Age: 3 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PULLED LAMP DOWN STRIKING HEAD HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT DX ABRASION OF SCALP - LAMP FELL ON HEAD,BLEEDING JUST PTA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2009 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps, Floors or flooring materials |
| 88YO M HEAD INJURY LOST BALANCE FELL TO FLOOR HIT FLOOR LAMP AS HE WAS FALLING, PT WAS ADMITTED* |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/16/2009 | Age: 1 months | 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: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| OLDER SISTER ACCIDENTALLY KNOCKED OVER A LAMP WHICH LANDED ONTO PT'S FRONTAL HEAD. DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2009 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| AN ELECTRIC LAMP FELL OVER AND HIT 7 M/O ON THE HEAD AT HOME. DX-CONTUSION HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2009 | Age: 84 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: Floor lamps or table lamps, Rugs or carpets |
| PATIENT HAD A MECHANICAL TRIP AND FALL, KNEE GAVE WAY, FELL STRIKING HEAD ON LAMP LANDING ON CARPETED FLOOR. DX-CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/13/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| FELL ON DESK LAMP;DX LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2009 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| PT WITH LAC TO HEAD FROM A LAMP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2009 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floor lamps or table lamps |
| CONTUSION TO HEAD AFTER PULLING A LAMP OVER ON HIM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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