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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,975
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL AGAINST WALL DX. CHEST CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2004 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL HITTING CHEST ON WALL DX: CONTUSION TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2004 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| TRIPPED AND FELL - HIT HEAD ON WALL - RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2004 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| CHEST WALL CONTUSION, FELL AGAINST A WALL THEN ONTO A CARPETED FLOOR GOING TO ANSWER PHONE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2004 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| CHEST WALL CT-HIT A WALL & FLOOR-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Air conditioners |
| PT ELL FORWARD AGAINST WALL CARRYING AIR CONDITIONER STRIKING RT SIDE O F RIB C/O PAIN RT RIBS FRACTURES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT DX CONTUSION OF BACK - S/P CEILING FELL ON SHOULDER LAST NIGHT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2004 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Mattresses |
| GOT PINNED AGAINST WALL MOVING A MATTRESS WITH HIS SON AND CONTUSED CHE ST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2004 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL SATURDAY, HIT WALL DX L RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| CHEST PAIN-WAS RESTRAINED DRIVER IN MVA. FELL ASLEEP AT WHEEL AND STRUC K A BRICK WALL AT 30MPH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2004 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT FELL INTO WALL; CHEST CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2004 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS PUSHING AGAINST A WALL YESTERDAY WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN L EFT SIDE OF CHEST FRACTURED RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 51 YEAR OLD FEMALE FELL AND HIT SIDE AGAINST WALL CONTUSION RIGHT SIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2004 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks |
| SLIPPED ON MAGAZINE AND HIT WALL WITH CHEST RESULTING IN TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT LOST BALANCE AND FELL INTO WALL STRIKING CHEST UPPER C/O PAIN CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 57 YEAR OLD MALE FELL AGAINST WALL CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2004 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL OFF 6 FT. WALL WHILE CLEANING YARD DX: CONTUSIONS RT. RIBS & RT. HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2004 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| WHILE ADUSTING PICTURE ON THE WALL, PT FELL ONTO SIDE, FX RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL 6FT OFF WALL - CONTUSION RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT RAN INTO HIS HOUSE STRIKING HIS CHEST AGAINST A WALL FRACTURED RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2004 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT C/O PAIN TO THE BACK DUE TO CEILING FALLING ON HIM AT HOME THIS PM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2004 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| STATES SHE BENT OVER TO PICK UP CRACKER, FELL OVER HITTING WALL DX LT SIDE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2004 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS THE DRIVER IN AN MVC RAN INTO A CONCRETE WALL NO MENTION OF REST RAINTS INTERNAL ORGAN INJURIES TO CHEST DEAD |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/06/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT PASSED OUT STRIKING WALL AT HOME + LOC C/O RT ROB PAIN RT RIB CONTUS IONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| RESTRAINED DRIVER IN TBONE MVA AND THEN HIT A WALL HEAD ON. AIR BAG DEP LOYED. D: CHEST WALL CONTUSION, ARM ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 84 Y.O. W MALE W/RIB CONTUSION. PT FELL & HIT RIBS ON WALL. E8889 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2004 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Day wear |
| PT STUMBLED WHEN PUTTING ON PANTS STRIKING CHEST AGAINST THE CLOSET WAL L CONTUSION RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2004 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL AGAINST A WALL. DX- RIB FRACTURE, MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT PUTTING LOTION ON HER LEG WHEN SHE LOST HER BALANCE STRIKING CHEST O N THE CORNER OF A WALL CONTUSION RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2004 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| THORACIC STRAIN.PT FELL AGAINST A WALL AND INJURED CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT FELL AND HIT CHEST AREA AND HEAD ON WALL DX: CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| SLIPPED & FELL ON 3-26, HIT CORNER OF WALL. ACUTE RT CHEST WALL CT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2004 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| RIGHT CHEST CONT. PT FELL AND HIT A WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2004 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FALL INTO BRICK WALL RIB CONTUSION VS FX RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2004 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WITH BACK, HIP, SHOULDER PAIN AFTER LIFTING PLANT OFF WALL AT HOME. D: THORACIC STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2004 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| FELL AGAINST A WALL ADAPTER CONTUSION RIGHT RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2004 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT FELL INTO WALL AT RESTAURANT; CONT CHEST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2004 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 82 Y.O. W MALE W/FX RIBS. PT WAS GOING INTO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE & HE & HIS WIFE GOT TANGLED UP & HE FELL INTO A RETAINING WALL @ HOME. E8889 |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/03/2004 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT TRIPPED OVER HIS 2 DOGS AND FELL BACKWARDS HITTING HIS BACK AGAINST THE WALL. DX: BACK PAIN SECONDARY TO TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2004 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| 2 DAYS AGO, PT STUMBLED, FELL INTO WALL AND THEN HIT FLOOR. STATES HAVI NG SIDE PAIN. D: CHF, NEW ONSET A-FLUTTER. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/02/2004 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL INTO A WALL - INJURED CHEST ADMITTED RIGHT CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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