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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,238
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2009 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 11 MO FEMALE AT DAYCARE AND A LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ONTO HEAD. DX SUPERFI CIAL HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2009 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | 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 |
| 12 YO FEMALE - FLOURESCENT LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD AT SCHOOL. DX HE AD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | 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-NO LOC-16YOF-LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON PT'S HEAD-@ SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | 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 |
| HIT HEAD ON CHANDELIER CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2009 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | 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 |
| PT SUSTAINED A HEAD INJURY BY BEING LIFTING INTO AIR STRIKING LIGHT FIX TURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2009 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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, Balls |
| PATIENT BOUNCING A BALL IN ROOM, HIT GLASS GLOBE ON CEILING LIGHT, PIEC ES HIT PATIENT; SCALP LAC., FINGER LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ONTO PT. DX: SCALP ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2009 | Age: 42 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 |
| 42 YOM, LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD, HEAD LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| HEAD CONT. PT HIT HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE ON WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2009 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Light bulbs |
| DX LAC SCALP: @ SCHOOL FLORESCENT LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON PT HEAD, GLASS BULBS BROKE IN SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2009 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 34 YOF SUSTAINED HEAD CONTUSION WHEN LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HER HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2009 | Age: 9 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 |
| HEAD INJURY FROM HITTING HEAD ON LIGHT GLOBE AT HOME. DX-LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT STATES GLASS FROM CHANDELIER HIT HEAD DX;* MINIMAL BLUNT TRAUMA (HEAD) CONCUSSION W/O LOC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2009 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| PULLED CORD TO TURN LIGHT ON AND LIGHT FELL FROM CEILING CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | 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 |
| RAN INTO A LOW HANGING LIGHT HIT HEAD -LOC DX- MINOR HEAD INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | 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-HIT HEAD ON HANGING LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2009 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | 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 |
| RIDING *** BUS WHEN METAL LIGHT FIXTURE FELL AND HIT PATIENT ONTOP OF H EAD. DX-CHI. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| DX MIGRAINE HEADACHE: H/O MIGRAINE HA PRESENTS W C/O HAS MIGRAINE HA NOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN SIT'G UNDER FLUORESCENT LIGHTS FOR SO LONG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2009 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | 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 |
| PT STOOD UP AND HIT BACK OF HEAD ON A CHANDELIER. IT THEN FELL AND STRU CK HIM IN THE HEAD. NO LOC. HEADACHE, NAUSEA. DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2009 | Age: 10 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 WAS SWINGING SOMETHING IN ROOM AND HIT LIGHT FIXTURE WHICH BROKE. DX: SCALP LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2009 | Age: 45 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LAC HEAD ON CHANDELIERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2009 | Age: 31 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 |
| 31YO BLACK MALE AT HOME PT'S MOM PUNCHED A LIGHT FIXTURE & THE GLASS FLEW AT PT,CUT ON HEAD,NLOC, DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| GLOBE FROM CEILING LIGHT FELL AND HIT HER;DX CHI;DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2009 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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, Toilets |
| SITTING ON THE TOILET WHEN A LIGHT FIXTURE SUDDENLY FELL, FROM9FTH, HIT TING HEAD>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2009 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 LIGHT FIXTURE HIT HEAD, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2009 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 WAS HOME WHEN A LIGHT FIXTURE FELL FROM THE CELING HIT TOP OF HEAD. DX SCALP LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| 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, Ceilings and walls |
| PT PLAYING AT HOME WHEN A LIGHT FIXTURE THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE WALL S PONTANEOUSLY CAME LOOSE FELL ONTO HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| HIT HEAD ON OVERHEAD GLASS LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME, HAS POSSIBLE CONCUSSI ON, CONTUSION TO SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| PT BLACKED OUT WHILE AMBULATING IN KITCHEN, ALSO STRUCK IN HEAD BY A CHANDELIER, +ETOH. DX-BLUNT HEAD INJURY, SCALP ABRASION, ETOH INTOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HIT HEAD ON A LIGHT FIXTURE. DX SCALP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| 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, Ceilings and walls |
| PT LIGHT FIXTURE COVER FELL FROM CEILING AND HIT PT ON THE HEAD PT FEEL S DIZZY DX// HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2009 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 56 YOF HIT HEAD ON GLASS LIGHT FIXTURE LAST NIGHT, SUSTAINED A CONCUSSI ON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2009 | Age: 4 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, Other toys |
| 4YOM THREW BALL IN THE KITCHEN THAT HIT A CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE,GLASS BROKE,GLASS HIT HIM ON TOP OF HEAD;SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| LIGHTING FIXTURE FELL ON TOP OF HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2009 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| STOOD UP QUICKLEY&ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK HEAD ON A HEAVY LIGHT FIXTURE, +H EADACHE&NECK PAIN>>CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2009 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HIT HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE, HAS LAC DX; SCALP ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2009 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | 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 |
| A LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON PTS HEAD, HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| COUSIN TOSSING PT IN AIR AND HIT HEAD ON A LIGHT FIXTURE. DX SCALP LAC ERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2009 | Age: 23 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 |
| SCALP LAC.PT HAD A LIGHT FIXTURE FALL ON HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2009 | Age: 5 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON PTS HEAD DX: SCALP LAC, |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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