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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 509
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| INJURY TO LEFT FOOT FROM STEPPING ON CRAFTS NEEDLE. DX-LEFT FOOT PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| PT DOING ALOT OF KNITTING AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN WRIST THEN PASSED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/21/2008 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| WHILE SEWING,DEVELOPED BACK PAIN WITH THORACIC COMPRESSION FX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/28/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| BURNING PAIN IN UPPER BACK. HAS BEEN CROCHETING DAY AND NIGHT. DX: UPPE R BACK PAIN. APPEARS MUSCULOSKELETAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| PT WITH CORNEAL ABRASION, WAS SEWING, AND SOMEHOW STRUCK SELF IN EYE WITH THREAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| PT CUT THUMB W/SEAM RIPPER. DX: R THUMB LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| DX ARTHRITIS: ONSET D/T OVERUSE W CROCHETING BLANKET W INC HAND PAIN X 1-2 WKS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| DX CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME: PRESENTS W BIL WRIST AND HAND PAIN/SWELL'G X6-7D. STATES SHE HAS BEEN CROCHETING HEAVILY THIS PAST WEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| DX REPETITIVE STRESS INJ/TENDONITIS RIF: C/O R HAND PAIN ESPECIALLY INDEX FINGER FOR SEVERAL DAYS. PT STATES IS A KNITTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| PT FELL ON 2 KNITTING NEEDLES DX: FB LT THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sewing basket articles, Floors or flooring materials |
| WAS SEWING, THEN LOST HER VISOIN, CAME BACK TO HER, NOW WITH UNSTEADY G AIT, FELL TO THE FLOOR, NOW WITH NECK PAIN>> NECK PAIN S/P FALL/ATAXIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| PT FELL BACKWARDS AT HOME ONTO A KNITTING NEEDLE THAT WENT INTO CHEST P NEUMOTHORAX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 60 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: Laceration |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| PT USING A QUILTING CUTTING WHEEL; AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT I NDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sewing basket articles |
| PT DEVELOPED SEVERE HAND PAIN AFTER DONG ALOT OF KNITTING STRAINED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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