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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 522
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT FELL TO CARPETING AND SUSTAINED A SKIN TEAR TO KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL AND KNEE HIT CARPETED FLOOR. DX CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| RUNNING AT HOME AND TRIPPED ON CARPET. DX KNEE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| DX KNEE CONTU: TRIPPED AND FELL ON CARPET IN OUTPATIENT PHARMACY, L KNEE RED NO SWELL'G OR DEFORMITY NOTED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT HAS ARTHRITIS, PT WAS TEARING UP AN OLD CARPET, CRAWLING AROUND DOWN ON KNEES, CAUSING PAIN IN KNEES. DX: KNEE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT KNEELING ON CARPET, FELT SOMETHING GO INTO RIGHT KNEE, JUMPED UP, FA LLING ONTO RIGHT KNEE AGAIN DX; CONTUSION RIGHT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Floors or flooring materials |
| WRESTLING WITH BOYFRIEND, FELL HIT KNEE ON CARPETED FLOOR. DX KNEE STRA IN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PT FELL ON METAL CARPET STRIPS AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF THE KNEES BY FALLING TO CARPETED FLOOR AT T HE CLINIC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting, Chairs |
| PT FELL FROM A CHAIR TO A CARPET SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Room-sized, wall-to-wall or outdoor carpeting |
| PATIENT AT MOTHER'S PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT, SOMEONE THREW PIECE OF CARPET, HIT PATIENT IN KNEE CAUSING CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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