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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,899
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| WAS CHASING GRANDSON AND TRIPPED ON CARPET C/O FINGER PAIN AND SCALP LAC DX- FINGER SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT TRIPPED ON RUG BENDING RIGHT HAND UNDER , PT FRACTURED RIGHT 4TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT TRIPPED OVER CARPET AND FELL. DX: 3RD DIGIT LAC/DISLOCATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT INJURED FINGER WHILE SCRUBBING CARPET ON FLOOR. DX; FINGER FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| JAMMED FINGER WHILE SCRUBBING CARPET/ FX RIF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2007 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL 2 NIGHTS AGO ON CARPETED FLOOR @ HOME DX FINGER FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 36YOF WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SCRUB OUT SOME PAINT OUT OF CARPET,JAMMED RIGHT FINGER;FINGER SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2007 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Floors or flooring materials |
| 84 YO FEMALE FELL ON CARPETED FLOOR AT HOME FRACTURE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| 37YOM WHILE AT HOME CUTTTING CARPET,ACCIDENTLY CUT THUMB; THUMB LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| 31YOF JAMMED LT MIDDLE FINGER ON CARPET, HYPEREXTENDED IT, NOW UNABLETO EXTEND FINGER UP FORWARD. DX - DISRUPTION OF EXTENSOR TENDON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| HURT FINGER ON RUG WHILE PULLING RUG DX FINGER SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Stairs or steps |
| PT SLID DOWN 2 CARPETED STAIRS AND JAMMED FINGER. DX: R PINKY FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| 11 YOM FELL ONTO RT HAND, INCARPETED LIVING ROOM DX: RT HAND LITTLE FINGER FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2007 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| TRIPPED ON CARPET AND FELL/ DISLOCATED RMF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT STATES WAS CLEANING CARPET AND THE RAG STOPPED BUT HIS FINGER KEPT GOING CAUSING AN INJURY. DX. SPRIAN R MIDDLE FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2007 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Floors or flooring materials |
| SLIPPED ON BATHROOM RUG AND FELL ON FLOOR. DX- R THUMB SKIN AVULSION, L THUMB AND INDEX FINGER LACERATIONS JG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2007 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| FINGER STRAIN-PAIN WHILE WASHING CARPET-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| FOREIGN BODY RIGHT INDEX FINGER-PULLING UP CARPET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Recording tapes |
| SCRUBBING A CARPET - RAN THUMB ACROSS BROKEN CASSETTE PW RIGHT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Stairs or steps |
| PT HAS A CARPET STAPLE EMBEDDED IN LT 3RD FINGER- PT WAS PLAYING ON CARPETED STAIRS, AT HOME. DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL FROM FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT WITH LAC TO FINGER WHILE CUTTING CARPET, NO MENTION OF KNIFE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| INJURED THUMB DOING CARTWHEEL ON CARPET, SPRAIN THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT WITH FINGER SPRAIN WHILE CLEANING A RUG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL JAMMING FINGER ON CARPETED FLR "FX'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| R 5TH FING LAC;SCALP CONT/74YOF AT HOME TONIGHT AT 9:20P, FELL ONTO THE CARPETING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2007 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT.INJ.L.5TH.FINGER AT HOME WHEN FELL ON CARPET. DX; L.5TH.FINGER F.X. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| 22 YO LAYING CARPET KINJURED FINGER LAC FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| THUMB PAIN-SINCE PULLING CARPET-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Nonelectric razors or shavers |
| PT CUT FINGER ON RAZOR BLADE WHILE CUTTING CARPET DX L INDEX FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2007 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT.INJ.RT.5TH.FINGER AT DAUGHTERS HOUSE WHEN TRIPPED ON CARPET & FELL HITTING FINGER ON METAL COAT HANGER. DX; LAC.RT.5TH.FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| THUMB CELLULITIS-1 WEEK AFTER REMOVING OLD CARPET-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT WAS SCRUBBING CARPET, FELT POP, UNABLE TO EXTEND DISTAL 3RD FINGER. DX. RUPTURED TENDON DISTAL PHALANX R 3RD FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| FINGER FB-SPLINTER WHILE REMOVING CARPET-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Chairs |
| PT TRIPPED ON RUG, CATCHING 4TH LEFT FINGER IN MATERIAL OF CHAIR, CONTUSION TO 4TH LEFT FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2007 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT DISLOCATED A FINGER BY TRIPPING ON A RUG AND FALLING TO THE FLOOR AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Heavy-duty workshop staplers |
| STAPLING CARPET TO STAIRS AND MISSED AND STAPLED THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| 20 YOM STRAINED L THUMB INSTALLING CARPET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Knives with replaceable blades |
| 31 YOM LACERATED LEFT INDEX FINGER WITH A RAZOR KNIFE WHILE CUTTING CAR PET AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| C/O L THUMB PAIN, INJURED WHILE PULLING UP CARPET, DX; L THUMB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2007 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| RT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER SPRAIN.PT TRIPPED OVER RUG AND INJURED FINGE RS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2007 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| TRIPPED ON RUG TRYING TO CATCH SELF FROM FALLING RIGHT DISTAL THUMB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2007 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| TRIPPED OVER A RUG AND FELL AT RESTAURANT FINGER FRACTURE/MULTIPLE CONT USIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL OVER CARPET DX; RT 4TH DIGIT SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2007 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT SLIPPED ON RUG AND FELL. DX: L MIDDLE FINGER SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2007 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| LEFT THUMB FRACTURE.PT FELL OVER A RUG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Doorsills or frames |
| LEFT THUMB SPRAIN.PT TRIPPED OVER A RUG AND HIT THUMB ON A DOOR JAMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2007 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Knives with replaceable blades |
| PT WAS REMOVING OLD CARPET AT HOME AND CUT FINGER ON A UTILITY KNIFE DX; DEEP LACERATION TO RIGHT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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