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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 349
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/04/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT WAS BENDING OVER AND RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE. DX. CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2009 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT FELL AND LANDED ON A WOODEN CLOTHES RACK/ HIP STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2009 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| L EYE PAIN, HIT END OF CLOTHESLINE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2009 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Poles |
| PT CUT HEAD WHEN FELL OUTSIDE IN YARD AND HIT METAL POST OF CLOTHESLINE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2009 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| LOST BALANCE TAKING SOMETHING OFF CLOTHESLINE COMPRESSION FRACTURE T-3 |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/04/2009 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| ON ***, WAS FIXING A CLOTHESLINE WHEN ENTANGLED IN THE LINE B/C OFTHE W IND&FELL HITTING HEAD, NO LOC, BIBEMS AS MTR>>CHI/ELEVATER INR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2009 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT HAD EYE DILATED TODAY AND RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE AT HOME AND HAS A DEE P LAC TO L EAR. DX. L EAR LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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