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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 510
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2005 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| CURTAIN ROD FELL AND HIT PT ON TOP OF HEAD. D: LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2005 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PT SUS LAC TO FOREHEAD FORM A CURTIAN ROD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2005 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| HIT BY FALLING CURTAIN ROD DX. SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2005 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PT STEPPEDON A CURTAIN HOOK AT HOME SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2005 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PT CUT FOOT WHEN STEPPED ON A SHOWER CURTAIN HOOK. D: LACERATION LEFT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2005 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| 2CM FINGER LAC-CUT ON A CURTAIN ROD-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2005 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings, Basketball |
| PT STEPPED ON CURTAIN ROD LYING ON SAT POPPED UP CUTTING WRIST HEALIN G UNTIL TODAY PLAYING BASKETBALL OPEN UP, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| FOOT LACERATION, STEPPED ON CURTAIN ROD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2005 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| HIT BY CURTAIN ROD DX. SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2005 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PLAYING WITH OLD BROKING CURATIN ROD CUT KNEE DX- 2.5 CM FLAP IRREGULAR LACERATION LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2005 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings, Draperies, curtains or shower curtains |
| PT FOUND BY FAMILY HANGING FROM A SHOWER CURTAIN ROD. NO DETAILS ARE KN OWN. D: HANGING, CODE ARREST. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/29/2005 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| LACERATION NOSE - 12 YOF SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO HER NOSE BY A FALLIN G CURTAIN ROD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2005 | Age: 15 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: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| FACIAL LAC/15YOM AT HOME WAS SPINNING A CURTAIN ROD AND ROD HIT HIM IN THE L CHEEK AREA CAUSING LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2005 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PT STATES CURTAIN ROD FELL ON HEAD AT SCHOOL DX: POST CONCUSSION/HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2005 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PT HIT HIMSELF IN GROIN WITH CURTAIN ROD. DX: CONTUSION GENITAL ORGANS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PT WAS PLAYING AT HOME AND FELL - HIT WRIST ON A CURTAIN ROD. D: LACE RATION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2005 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PATIENT HIT ON HEAD WITH CURTAIN ROD BY YOUNGER BROTHER AT HOME, INTENT NOT STATED; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2005 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PUNCTURE TONGUE, VIA EMS, PARENTS ST PT GOT TONGUE RING 2 DAYS AGO, GOT INFECTED, C/O PAIN, SWELLING, HX PIERCING DONE BY PT HERSELF. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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