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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 717
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| LAC TO HEAD WHEN STRUCK ON A TOWEL RACK AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK. DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2007 | Age: 23 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: Towel racks or bars |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL INTO TOWEL RACK, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2007 | Age: 4 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: Towel racks or bars |
| 4 YO MALE HIT HEAD ON TOWEL ROD IN BATHROOM CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2007 | Age: 11 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: Towel racks or bars |
| C/O H/A SINCE SLIPPED IN THE BR, HITTING HEAD ONTO TOWEL RACK >> MIGRAINE/CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2007 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towel racks or bars, Toilets |
| PT WAS HANGING ON TOWEL RACK WHEN IT BROKE AND PT HIT HEAD ON TOILET. D: FALL / CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2007 | Age: 92 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: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| LACERATION HEAD-CUT ON TOWEL RACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2007 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| FELL, HIT HEAD ON GRAB BAR IN BATHROOM/ CHI POST TRAUMATIC HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| 18 YO FEMALE HIT HEAD ON PORCELAIN TOWEL RACK HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT BENT OVER IN BATHROOM AND HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK DX: HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| HIT BACK OF HEAD ON A TOWEL RACK. DX. 2 CM SCALP LACERATION, MINOR HEAD INJURY JS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2007 | Age: 5 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: Towel racks or bars |
| PT DX CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA - C/O TOWEL BAR FELL ON HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| CUT HEAD,FELL ON TOWEL BAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2007 | Age: 22 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: Towel racks or bars |
| DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY: HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2007 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK AT ADULT HOME TODAY DX// SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2007 | Age: 8 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: Towel racks or bars |
| PT SUS INJURY AFTER HITTING HEAD ON TOWEL RACK. DX CHI. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2007 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT STRUCK HEAD AGAINST A TOWEL RACK A FEW DAYS AGO CONTINUED PAIN IN HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2007 | Age: 37 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: Towel racks or bars |
| PT BENT OVER AT HOME YESTERDAY STRIKING HEAD ON A TOWEL RACK SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| HEAD LAC, PT HANGING FROM THE BATH TOWEL RACK, FELL DOWN & SUST INJURY AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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