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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 696
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/18/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT FELL STRIKING HEAD ON HANDRAIL. DX: BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA, FOREHEAD CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2008 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT STATES SHE LEANED OVER HER PORCH RAILING THIS A.M. AND FELL ONTO CON CRETE. DX. CONT. HEAD, L FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| CONCUSSION-LOST BALANCE-FELL OVER A RAILING-HIT HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| HEAD CONTUSION.PT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON A RAILING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON IRON RAILING. DX. CONTS, HEMATOMA HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| WALKED OUT TO GET PAPER, FELL HIT HEAD ON RAIL. DX SCALP LACERATION, NE AR SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/29/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT FELL AND HIT FACE ON RAIL AT NURSING HOME. DX: FACIAL CONT, MINOR HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Ceilings and walls |
| SAFETY RAIL CAME LOOSE FROM WALL STRIKING PATIENT IN THE HEAD. DX-SCALP LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| 73 YO FELL STRIKING HEAD ON RAIL CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| TRIPPED & FELL, HIT HEAD AGAINST METAL RAILING DX: CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| MECHANICAL FALL, REACHING OVER,HAND SLID ALONG RAILING,FELL BACKWARDS,H IT HEAD DX: CHI, SUBTHERAPEUTIC INR,LOW PLATELETS, SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/20/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| TRIPPED AND FELL AND HIT HEAD ON RAILING CONTUSING IT WITH CLOSED HEAD INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Animal induced injury |
| 56 YOM WENT TO UNTANGLE DOG FROM LEASH AND HIT HEAD ON BANISTER SUSTAIN ING A LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2008 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT HIT TOP OF HEAD ON METAL HANDRAIL AT HOME WHEN TRYING TO STAND FROM PICKING UP AN OBJ FROM FLOOR. DX-MINOR HEAD INJ, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
| PT OUTSIDE, WAS HOLDING ONTO RAILING COMING DOWN STAIRS, RAILING LOOSE, FELL ONTO GRASS, HIT HEAD. DX. CONT HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF THE SCALP BY STRIKING THE HANDRAIL WHILE F ALLING ON STAIRS AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| PT HAS LAC TO NOSE, NOSE BLEED WITH FALLING AND STRIKING NOSE ON RAILIN G. D: CHI, FACIAL FX, CONTUSION, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT SLIDING DOWN A BANISTER AND FELL OFF THE BANISTER STRIKING HEAD ON A TILE FLOOR SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY AND SUBDURAL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/01/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
| CHI.PT FELL INTO A BANISTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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