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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 421
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/28/2006 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT C/O OF MID BACK PAIN WHEN TRYING TO SET UP A CLOTHES LINE DX; THORACIC STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2006 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT PUTTING UP A CLOTHES LINE POLE IN BACKYARD WHEN TRIPPED AND POLE FEL L ON HEAD. GASH ABOVE EYEBROW. NO LOC. D: LACERATION, HTN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2006 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Clothing |
| PT DISLOCATED A SHOULDER BY FALLING TO THE GROUND WHILE HANGING CLOTHES ON THE CLOTHESLINE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2006 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Manual push mowers |
| LAC SCALP; MOWING LAWN & RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE CAUSING LAC TO TOP OF HEA D. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2006 | Age: 83 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: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT WALKING IN YARD AT HOME, TRIPPED OVER CLOTHES LINE AND FELL, FX RT H IP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/11/2006 | Age: 96 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Clothing |
| 96 YEAR OLD FEMALE STATES SHE WAS OUTSIDE HANGING CLOTHES AND WAS LEANING ON CLOTHESLINE, THE LINE SNAPPED AND SHE FELL /DX FOREARM SPR. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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