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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 419
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/07/2007 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT WAS WALKING FROM KITCHEN AND TRIPPED ON PHONE CORD. PT LANDED ON HER LEFT ARM. C/P DIZZINESS. D: FOREARM CONTUSION, THUMB INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2007 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| SUSPECTED LEFT RADIAL HEAD FRACTURE - TRIPPED OVER PHONE CORD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2007 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories, Floors or flooring materials |
| TRAUMA LT.FOREARM.PT.REFERS GOT TANGLE WITH TELEPHONE CABLE FALLING DOW N ON FLOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2007 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT WITH FRACTURED ARM IN TRIP OVER A PHONE CORD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| 24 YO MALE FELL ASLEEP ON CELL PHONE WHILE IT WAS CHARGING AND BURNED ARM - 1-2 DEGREE BURN LEFT ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| CONT L FOREARM/52YOF C/O PAIN L FOREARM AFTER DROPPING CELL PHONE ON IT . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT ON THE TELEPHONE FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME HLDING WITH LEFT HAN D NOW HAND NUMB AND TINGLING ULNAR NERVE PALSY (ULNAR NERVE= 33-NOT 82) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| FELL ON PHONE/FOREARM ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2007 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| ARM HI BY CELL PHONE OF PERSON NEX TO HIM 9 CM LACERATION ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories, Knives |
| RUNNING TO ANSWER PHONE, HAD KNIFE IN HAND, TRIPPED AND FELL, L FA LAC DX: L FA LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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