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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 459
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/15/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders |
| FELL OFF LADDER PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS DX: RADIAL/ ULNAR FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2004 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Ladders |
| PT FELL OFF LADDER SAT. HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| FEL WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND HIT HIS ARM DX R RADIAL HEAD FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2004 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| FELL WHILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS STRUCK HEAD ON CONCRETE NO LOC DX HUMERUS FX, EYEBROW LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Step stools |
| LEFT HIP STRAIN.PT WAS ON A STEP STOOL HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND WHE N GETTING DOWN INJURED HIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| PT WAS ADJUSTING A BUBBLE LIGHT ON A CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN IT EXPLODED AN D SOME CHEMICAL WENT INTO EYE CHEMICAL BURN TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2004 | Age: 65 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: Christmas tree lights |
| HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTSW IN HER YARD WHEN SHE STRUCK BY A CAR FX PELVI S AND RUPTURING BLADDER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/03/2004 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Christmas tree lights, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| PT WAS HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & FELL OFF OF THE PORCH DX: SCALP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2004 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND OVER DID IT AND INJUR ED BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2004 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| 82 YOF TRIPPED OVER CHRISTMAS LIGHTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2004 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| DX RIGHT INDEX FINGER PUNCTURE WOUND: INJURED FINGER WHEN CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BROKE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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