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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 226
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/29/2005 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| WAS PLAYING WITH BROTHER AND ACCIDENTALLY HIT CHANDELIER WHICH FELL AND CUT HIS HEAD. LACERATION OF HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2005 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HAD A CHANDELIER FALL ONTO HEAD. DX HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LAC TO HEAD WHEN A LIGHT FELL AND STRUCK HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2005 | Age: 13 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| CHI - 13 YOM WAS STRUCK WHEN A CEILING LIGHT FELL HITTING HIM ON THE HE AD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2005 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| ABRA AND HEMATOMA TO HEAD AFTER A GLASS GLOBE FROM A LIGHT FELL ON IT.D X. LAC SCALP, CONT HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2005 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HAD LIGHT FIXTURE FALL ON HEAD; LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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