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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 563
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2003 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| PATIENT STEPPED ON A BOARD & IT BROKE CAUSING HIM TO FALL AT HOME. DX: CONTUSION TO RT LOWE LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2003 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| CALF CT-@ HOME-HIT LEG AGAINST A METAL EDGE WHILE DOING CHORES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2003 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| 15 PIECES OF SHEETROCK FELL ON 62 YO MALE'S LEG FRACTURE TIB/FIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2003 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| LT LOWER LEG CT-@ HOME-HIT ON A BOARD-@ HOME WHILE REMODELING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2003 | Age: 92 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| 92 YOF HIT BY BOARD LAC LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2003 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: House repair or construction materials, Glass doors or doors with glass panels |
| FELL OUTSIDE OF HOME ONTO A SLIDING GLASS DOOR, INJURING HER KNEE AND HITTING HER HEAD ON THE DOOR. LEFT LEG CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2003 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| 12 SHEETS OF DRYWALL FELL ONTO PT. DX: L TIB/FIB FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/13/2003 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| PT WALKED INTO A PILE OF LUMBER LAC TO LOWER R SHIN AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2003 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| RT LOWER LEG CONTUSION.PT FELL THROUGH A ROOF AND INJURED LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2003 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| LAC LEFT LOWER LEG. PT STEPPED OVER A PIECE OF SHEET METAL AND INJURED LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2003 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| PUNCTURE WOUND - 64 YOM WAS TRYING TO CUT REBAR AND A PIECE CAME BACK A ND PENETRATED HIS RIGHT SHIN THIS MORNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2003 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| 61 Y.O. W MALE W/LEG CONTUSION. PT FELL THROUGH ROOF @ HOME. E8889 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2003 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| PT WAS WORKING ON HIS HOUSE AT HOME DROPPED A 2X4 PIECE OF WOOD ON LEFT LOWER LEG ABRASION THEN INFECTION CELLULITIS LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2003 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| PT HAD A BOARD FALL ONTO LEFT LOWER LEG A WEEK AGO ABRASION THEN INFEC TION CELLULITIS LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2003 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: House repair or construction materials |
| PT FELL IN GARAGE RAT HOME DX WEAKNESS TO LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
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