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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,431
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2005 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| 70 YO MALE HAD DRAIN PIPE BREAK AND HE FELL ABRASION LEFT LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2005 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| LAC L EYEBROW;TRIPPED OVER DRAIN SPOUT, FELL & HIT PILE OF BRICKS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2005 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| TRIPPED OVER DRAINPIPE IN BASEMENT DX RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2005 | Age: 60 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: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes, Ladders |
| 60 YO CLEANING GUTTER ON LADDER FELL OFF LANDED ON ARM FX ULNA SHAFT CLOSED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes, Ladders |
| PATIENT WAS CLEANING OUT THE GUTTERS, FELL, LANDED ON CONCRETE, FELL 6 FT. OFF LADDER AT HOME. DX-L1-L2 FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| FOREIGN BODY BILATERAL EYES-C/O PAIN AND BURNING TO BILATERAL EYES AFTE R CLEANING OUT GUTTERS AND LEAVES BLEW IN EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2005 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT. FELL OVER DOWNSPOUTING, LANDED ON FACE CUT R.EYEBRW. DX. R. EYEBR OW LAC. # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2005 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes, Ladders |
| HUMERUS FX-CLEANING GUTTERS-FELL FROM LADDER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/11/2005 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| LAC L EYEBROW, ABRAS L KNEE & FOREARM; TRIPPED ON DOWNSPOUT & FELL ONTO ROCK PILE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2005 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| LAC R EYEBROW & NOSE; TRIPPED ON DRAIN PIPE & FELL ONTO SIDEWALK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| LEFT HAND LACERATION.PT LACERATED HAND ON GUTTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| FINGER FX-@ HOME-UNLOADING PLASTIC CULVERT FROM TRUCK-HIT FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2005 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT INJURED AT HOME CLEANING METAL GUTTER DX: HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| 57 YO FEMALE TRIPPED OVER DRAIN PIPE AND FELL FRACTURE RIGHT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2005 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| SUBUNGUAL FOREIGN BODY: REMOVING WOODEN GUTTER AT HOME, GOT SPLINTER UNDER RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| CUT TO FINGER ON METAL GUTTER DX: LACERATION TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2005 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| TRIPPED OVER 4" DRAIN IN HER CONCRETE DRIVE PROBABLE FRACTURE SHOULDER HUMERUS FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2005 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT. TRIPPED , STRUCK HEAD ON RAIN SPOUTING. CAUSING INJURY. DX. SCALP L AC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2005 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT TRIPPED OVER RAIN GUTTER AND FELL ONTO ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2005 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| R LOWER LEG LAC/58YOM FELL TODAY & CUT LEG ON DRAINAGE PIPE IN STREET. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2005 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT LAC LT MIDDLE FINGER WHILE CLEANING GUTTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| 53 YO CLEANING GUTTER FELL ON SHOULDER CONTUSION SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes, Ladders |
| TIBIA FX-CLEANING GUTTERS-FELL FROM LADDER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/08/2005 | Age: 56 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: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes, Extension or straight ladders |
| CLEANING OUT RAIN GUTTERS AT HOME FELL FROM LADDER INJURING LOWER ARM .COLLES FX LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT SPRAINED AN ANKLE BY SLIPPING OFF A GUTTER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| TRIPPED OVER DRAINPIPE DX. ANKLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2005 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| 3 CM FOREARM LAC-TRIPPED ON GUTTER-FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2005 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT DX LT 5TH DIGIT FX - PT TRIPPED IN A GUTTER AND FELL ON HIS WAY TO THE DOCTOR HURTI NG HIS FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2005 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| TRIPPED AND FELL AND HIT HEAD ON A PIPE AND LAC ORBITAL AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes, Other unpowered garden tools |
| TRIPPED OVER WATER PIPE HIT SHOVEL AND LACERATED FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | 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: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| WHILE CLEANING GUTTERS, PT FELL AND HIT HEAD, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| 52 YO TRIPPED 7 FELL OVER GUTTERS CONTUSION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2005 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| PT CLEANING HIS GUTTERS AT HOME WHEH HE SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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