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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 376
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/24/2008 | Age: 3 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: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| RAN INTO CLOTHES RACK;DX CONTUSED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2008 | Age: 5 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: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| WAS PLAYING WITH ANOTHER CHILD WHO STRUCK PT'S HEAD WITH A METAL HANGER >>SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers, Floors or flooring materials |
| SLIPPED ON A COAT HANGER @ THE STORE&FELL BACKWARDS HITTING HEAD AGAINS T THE FLOOR, NO LOC>>CLOSED HEAD INJ/SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| HIT IN HEAD WITH HANGER BY SISTER;DX LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2008 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| 91YOM AT THE NURSING HOME SLIPPED, STRUCK HEAD ON COAT RACK; SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT WAS PLAYING INBETWEEN CLOTHES RACKS AND HIT HEAD. D: ABRASION SCAL P |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| 2 DAYS AGO, WAS SITTING UNDER CLOTHERS RACK IN STORES AND HIT HEAD. NO LOC. DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| 84 YOF FELL OVER INTO CLOTHING RACK TODAY AT STORE CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/13/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| HIT HEAD ON METAL COAT RACK LAC SCALP * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 4 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: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| COAT RACK FELL ON HEAD CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2008 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| 23 MOF FELL HITTING HEAD ON HANGERS SUSTAINING CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2008 | Age: 5 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: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT FELL BACK AND HIT HIS HEAD ON A CLOTHES RACK. HAS A LAC TO THE L PAR IETAL SCALP. DX SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON A HANGER ; CUT HEAD. D: SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| STANDING ON WOODEN COAT RACK - TILTED AND HIT HEAD. DX SCALP LACERATIO N |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2008 | Age: 9 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: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers, Doors |
| H/O TIC, HIT IN EYE WITH COAT HANGER OR METAL HOOK ON BATHROOM DOOR AFT R BEING ASSAULTED BY ANOTHER CHILD, VOMITING; CLOSED HEAD INJURY, ABRAS |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 03/05/2008 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT WITH CONTUSION TO HEAD AFTER GETTING FOOT CAUGHT IN HANGER CAUSING P T TO FALL AND HIT HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| FELL ON RACK AT STORE;DX LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2008 | Age: 48 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: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| STOOD UP AND STRUCK HEAD ON HANGER LAC IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PATIENT HIT HEAD ON A COAT RACK, VOMITED. DX-CONCUSSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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