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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 700
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2006 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LACERATION FOREHEAD-LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HIT HEAD ON OVERHEAD LIGHT AND CUT FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FOREHEAD LAC-METAL LIGHTING FIXTURE FELL ON PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2006 | Age: 8 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Other toys |
| PLAYING, THREW BALL UP TOWARDS CEILING, GLASS LIGHT COVER BROKE DX: FA CIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2006 | Age: 8 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FOREHEAD LACERATION: PLAYING WITH COUSINS AT GRANDMOTHER'S, GLASS CHANDELIER WAS HIT, FELL, HITTING PT RT FOREHEAD, DID NOT BREAK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2006 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| CUT BY FALLING LIGHT FIXTURE/FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2006 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| HELPING SON AND HANGING FLUORESCENT LIGHT FIXTURE SWUNG DOWN LOW AND HI T NOSE LACERATION NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2006 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HAD A LIGHT FIXTURE BLOW UP IN HER FACE AT HOME TODAY AND BURN HER F ACE DX// 1ST DEGREE BURN FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2006 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT CUT CHIN ON GLASS LIGHT FIXTURE DX: CHIN LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2006 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ball sports |
| PT THREW BALL TO CEILING, GLASS FROM RECESSED LIGHT BROKE AND FELL ON F ACE, LACERATION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2006 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| FACE LAC-@ NURSING HOME-LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON PT'S FACE FROM CEILING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2006 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| HIT HEAD ON A LIGHT FIXTURE NO LOC LACERATION LEFT FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2006 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ladders |
| CLEANING A CHANDELIER AND FELL OFF LADDER. DX- 2 CM NOSE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Chairs |
| STANDING ON CHAIR "REACHING FOR SOMETHING" AND LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HE AD. DX FACE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2006 | Age: 16 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| HIT IN THE SIDE OF THE FACE WITH PLASTIC LIGHT COVERING. DX LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PATIENT STATES LIGHT FIXTURE BROKE AND STRUCK FOREHEAD THEN HIT THUMB DX; 1 CM LACERATION TO FOREHEAD, 4 CM LACERATION BASE OF THUMB . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2006 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Other ball sports |
| NOSE LAC-HIT BY A FALLING BROKEN GLASS GLOBE OF LIGHT FIXTURE THAT SIST ER HIT W/A BALL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FACE LAC-ACCIDENTLY HIT A LIGHT FIXTURE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| FOREHEAD CONTUSION.LPT HIT FOREHEAD ON A LIGHT FIXTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2006 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Other toys |
| MOTHER STATES SHE THREW A BALL HITTING LIGHT FIXTURE FROM CEILING LAMP, GLASS FELL HITTING PATIENT ON FOREHEAD; FOREHEAD LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2006 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HAD A CEILING LIGHT COVER FALL ONTO FACE LAC IT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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