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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 682
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2004 | Age: 12 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 |
| HANGER FELL ONTO HEAD SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT C/O PAIN TO RT EYE S/P PLASTIC HANGER HIT PT'S EYE,C/O SWELLING AND ITCHING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2004 | Age: 8 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: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT DX MINOR CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA - S/P HIT RT SIDE OF FACE OF METAL HANGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2004 | Age: 9 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 |
| CUT HEAD ON COAT HANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2004 | Age: 7 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 |
| LAC TO HEAD WHEN A COAT RACK FELL AND STRUCK HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| MOTHER STATES SHE WAS HIT ON ELBOW WITH A CLOTHES HANGER BY BROTHER DX RT ELBOW CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2004 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT HIT IN EYE WITH COAT HANGER. D: EYE HYPHEMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| 6 YO FELL DOWN AND HIT HEAD ON SHOE RACK LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| CORNEAL ABRASHION, CONLJUNCIVAL HEMORRHAGE, POKED IN YEE WITH PLASTIC C LOTHES HANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT WAS UNDER A CLOTHES RACK AT THE STORE AND HIT FOREHEAD ; D: FACIAL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT HAD AN ITCH IN HIS EAR SO HE INSERTED A COAT HANGER TO ITCH IT PERFO RATED EAR DRUM PUNCTURE WOUND EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK IN THE FACE WITH A CLOTHES HANGER. DX FACE C ON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT PLAYING IN BASEMENT RAN INTO COAT HANGER HITTING EYE, GLOBAL DISORDE R |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PATIENT CUT HAND ON METAL CLOTHES HANGER. DX; 1.5 CM LACERATION TO RI GHT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2004 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| 12 YEAR OLD MALE HIT IN ARM WITH CLOTHES HANGER CONTUSION ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| ANKLE PUNCTURE WOUND FROM A COAT HANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| HANGER INJURY DX: PUNCTURED FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2004 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| PT HIT HEAD ON METAL CLOTHES RACK AT ***. D: CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| 11YOM POKED IN THE LEFT EYE WITH A PLASTIC HANGER, RECEIVED SEVERE CORN EAL INJURY W/ PAIN, TEARING, REDNESS - DX SEVERE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT CUT LT FOOT ON A METAL COAT RACK, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers, Footwear |
| PATIENT OUTSIDE AT HOME AND STEPPED ON RUSTY WIRE COAT HANGER, WENT THR OUGH SHOE INTO FOOT; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT SRACTCHED EYE WITH A PLASTIC HANGER THAT BROKE A SMALL PEICE HIT TO THE EYE NOW W/ BLURRED VISON. DX CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2004 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 12 YOM WAS IN A STORE SHOPPING AND WAS STRUCK IN HIS RIGHT EYE BY A HANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| AT *** AND CERAMIC TIE RACK FELL OVER AND HIT PT ON HEAD. D:CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2004 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| EYE INJURY FROM HANGER DX: R IRITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2004 | Age: 6 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 |
| 6 YO M RAN INTO CLOTHES HANGER INJURY TO HEAD LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers, Exercise |
| CHILD DOING "PULL UP" ON CLOSET HANGING ROD YESTERDAY AND NOW HAS NECK PAIN AND LOW GRADE FEVER. D: NECK STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2004 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 15 YO BM - FB (COAT HANGER) THRU RT. INDEX FINGER - TRYING TO GET A "BB " OUT OF A GUN WITH COAT HANGER & PUNCTURED RT. INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers, Day wear |
| 11 Y.O. W MALE W/CORNEAL ABRASION. PT PULLED A SHIRT OFF OF THE HANGER & IT STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE @ HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| ABRASION EYE WHEN HIT SELF IN EYE WITH COAT HANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| 13 YOWM C/O FB R ARM. POSS FROM METAL HANGER STICK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| ABRASION FACE WITH COAT HANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT CUT BACK OF MOUTH WITH A CLOTHES HANGER. D: PALATAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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