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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,257
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 19 YO FEMALE HURT WRISTS FROM HANDCUFFS WRIST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2002 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PT. STATES HE WAS IN HANDCUFFS LAST NIGHT WHICH WERE TOO THIGHT,SAYS HI S FOREARMS, WRISTS AND HANDS HURT. DX. BILATERAL WRIST PAIN. NO OTHER I |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| CARPAL TUNNEL- DUE TO HANDCUFFS THAT WERE PUT ON HER WHEN SHE WAS INCAR CERATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 40 YO MALE DEVELOPED PAIN IN WRISTS FROM HANDCUFFS WRIST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PT WAS IN HANDCUFFS TODAY, I HOUR LATER C/O PAINFUL WRIST, NO WRIST INJ URY SEEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2002 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 30 YO MALE HAS PAIN TO WRIST FROM HANDCUFFS ACUTE LEFT WRIST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| CONTUSION TO WRIST WHEN PLACED IN HANDCUFFS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 40 YO WRIST IS TENDER FROM HANDCUFFS CONTUSION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| HANDCUFF INJURY X 2 DAYS. INFECTED. DX. LAC TO WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/03/2002 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| DX:RIGHT WRIST SPRAIN. PT WAS IN HANDCUFFS AND INJURED HIS WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2002 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 30 YO MALE HURT WRIST FROM HANDCUFFS WRIST CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 34 YO MALE HURT WRISTS FROM HANDCUFFS CONTUSION LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PAIN IN LT WRIST SINCE HANDCUFFED 5 DAYS PTA DX: BILATERAL WRIST CONTUSION + |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PT HAS L WRIST PAIN AFTER WEARING HANDCUFFS + |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2002 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| BILAT WRIST INJ FROM BEING IN HANDCUFFS FROM SKYLINE CASINO SECURITY DX : SKIN TEARS BILAT WRISTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| WRIST CT-HAD BEEN HANDCUFFED BY POLICE-"TOO TIGHT"-LEFT W/O TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/13/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 40 YO BLACK FEMALE DEVELOPED WRIST PAIN FROM HANDCUFFS SPRAIN WRISTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| INJURED LEFT WRIST WITH HANDCUFFS. DX: CONTUSION TO LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PAIN IN WRISTS FROM HANDCUFFS CONTUSION LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| HURT WRIST WITH HANDCUFFS ABRASION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| SOFT TISSUE INJ LEFT WRIST-C/O PAIN AND TINGLING TO LEFT WRIST AFTER HA ND CUFFS WERE TOO TIGHT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PT WAS IN HANDCUFFS, C/O OF WRIST PAIN - STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| TACKLED AND HANDCUFFEDCONTUSION/SPRAIN WRISTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| HANDCUFFS ON RIGHT WRISTCONTUSION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| WRISTS HURT FROM HANDCUFFSSPRAIN LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks, Lockers |
| STRUCK LEFT WRIST ON LOCK FROM LOCKERLEFT WRIST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PT C/O OF WRIST PAIN, WEARING HANDCUFFS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| COMPLAINS OF MISTREATMENT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, HANDCUFFS TOO TIGHT.NONWO RK. SWOLLEN WRISTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PATIENT WITH WRIST PAIN AFTER HAVING STEEL HANDCUFFS ON WRIST ON SATURD AY. HANDCUFFS "TOO TIGHT". NO OTHER DETAILS. D:SUPERF. ABRASIONS, WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| WRIST SWOLLEN BY HANDCUFFSCONTUSION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| WRIST INJURED BY HANDCUFFSCONTUSION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PATIENT WAS HANDCUFFED LEFT WRIST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PATIENT BROUGHT IN BY POLICE, STATES WRIST PAIN, WANTS X-RAYS OF WRISTS BECAUSE HANDCUFFS ARE TO TIGHT. DX: PAIN TO WRISTS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| CUFFED BY POLICE IN PHILLY, CUFFS TOO TIGHT PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY SECONDARY TO HANDCUFFS LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| WHILE IN POLICE CUSTODY C/O HANDCUFFS TOO TIGHT DX: GANGLION CYST RT WR IST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PAIN FROM HANDCUFFS - UNCOOPERATIVE ABRASION WRISTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PT STATES HANDCUFFS PUT ON TOO TIGHT C/O LOSING FEELING LT HAND DX: CON TUSION TO LT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| HANDCUFFS HURT WRIST SPRAIN WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| IRRITATED BILATERAL WRISTS FROM BEING HAND CUFFED TOO TIGHTLY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/10/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PAIN IN WRISTS FROM HANDCUFFS ABRASION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2002 | 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: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| PATIENT COMPLAINING OF WRIST PAIN AND NUMBNESS. WAS HANDCUFFED 9 MONTHS AGO AND HAS SAME PAIN. D: WRIST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| RIGHT WRIST SPR. PT WAS IN HANDCUFFS AND TWISTED WRIST WRONG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| 29 Y.O. B FEMALE W/WRIST CONTUSION. PT STS SHE WAS ARRESTED BY POL ICE & THEY GOT HER HANDCUFF'S TOO TIGHT. E975 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Padlocks, chain locks or other locks |
| ARRESTED BY POLICE OFFICERS, PUT HANDCUFFS ON TOO TIGHT INJURING WRISTS . DX: WRIST SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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