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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,796
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2007 | Age: 63 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: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS AT HOME, STUMBLED AND HIT THE WALL CAUSING FX TO RT RIBS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2007 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 83 YO MALE SLIPPED AND FELL IN BATHROOM AND HIT SIDE ON CORNER OF WALL RIB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2007 | Age: 69 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 |
| CHEST WALL CONTUSION.PT FELL INTO A WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2007 | Age: 80 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: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT WAS AT HOME, SLIPPED ON THE FLOOR, HIT THE WALL CAUSING MULTIPLE RT RIB FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/28/2007 | Age: 86 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 |
| PT FELL STRIKING CHEST AGAINST A WALL SUSTAINED A CONTUSION TO RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2007 | Age: 65 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 |
| 65 YOF FELL THROUGH HER CEILING AND SCRAPED HERSELF UP, SUSTAINED CONTU SIONS TO CHEST AND LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2007 | 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 |
| FELL INTO WALL CONTUSION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2007 | Age: 64 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT SPRAINED HER CHEST WALL BY FALLING AGAINST A WALL AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2007 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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, Wheelchairs |
| PT AT THE NURSING HOME ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT OF A WHEELCHAIR AND IT SL ID FORWARD SHE FELL STRIKING CHEST AGAINST THE WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2007 | Age: 66 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 |
| BACK CT-FELL-HIT BACK ON WALL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2007 | 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 |
| SLIPPED IN BATHROOM INTO WALL. DX. POSTERIOR THORACIC CONTUSION. JS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2007 | Age: 92 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 |
| CHEST WALL CONTUSION.PT FELL INTO A WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2007 | Age: 57 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 |
| FELL ONTO A BRICK WALL. DX= CHEST WALL CONTUSON JG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2007 | Age: 77 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 |
| CONTUSION CHEST - 77 YO FEMALE FELL AGAINST A WALL YESTERDAY - CO PAIN OF THE POSTERIOR ASPECT OF THE RIGHT CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2007 | Age: 78 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, Footwear |
| GOT *** STUCK IN THE ASPHALT IN THE DRIVEWAY, FELL BACKWARDS HITTING SH OLDER/CW ONTO A WALL >> SHOULDER/RIP FXS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2007 | Age: 65 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 |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF THE CHEST WALL BY FALLING AGAINST A WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2007 | Age: 84 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 A FEW DAYS AGO AT A FUNERAL HOME DX// CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2007 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT AT A PUBLIC PLACE AND FELL STRIKING CHEST AGAINST A WALL SUSTAINED R RACTURED RIBS WITH IOI CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/31/2007 | Age: 78 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 |
| LEFT CHEST WALL CONTUISON-C/O LEFT SIDE CHEST PAIN AFTER FALLING AGAINS T A WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2007 | Age: 89 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, Toilets |
| 89YOM WENT TO STAND UP FROM TOILET,SLIPPED AND HIT BACK AGAINST WALL; UPPER BACK CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2007 | Age: 87 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 FROM A STANDING POSITION HITTING HER HEAD ON A WALL, LANDING ON HER BACK. PT LIVES IN NURSING HOME. NO LOC. DX: BACK CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2007 | Age: 67 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: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 67 YO F CHEST PAIN AFTER CLEANING CEILINGS * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2007 | Age: 89 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 |
| BACK CT-FELL AGAINST A WALL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2007 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PATIENT STATES HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL SLIPPING DOWN A WALL AND C/O PAIN IN HIS MID BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/28/2007 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PATIENT SUS SPRAIN TO SPINE FROM CEILING FELL ON HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2007 | Age: 74 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 |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL AGAINST WALL RESULTING IN CONTUSION OF UPPER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2007 | Age: 75 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 |
| PATIENT WAS HURRYING TO BATHROOM AT HOME, LOST BALANCE & HIT RT SIDE OF HEAD & CHEST AGAINST WALL. DX - CHEST CONTUSION, EYEBROW LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 52 YOM WAS IN THE ATTIC AND CAME THROUGH THE CEILING AND WAS STRUCK IN THE DRYWALL, HAPPENED THURSDAY, SUSTAINED FRACTURED RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2007 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | 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 PART OF CEILING FELL ON HER BACK AT HOME TODAY - C/O BACK PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2007 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Chain saws |
| TRYING TO START CHAINSAW AND HIT HIS SIDE ON WALL AND FX RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2007 | Age: 82 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 |
| PATIENT LOST BALANCE AND FELL, HITTING WALL. DX; COMPRESSION FRACTURE OF VERTEBRA , THORACIC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2007 | Age: 89 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 THIS AM AND HIT LEFT CHEST AGAINST WALL LEFT RIB CAGE CONTUSIO N |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2007 | Age: 95 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 |
| RIB FRACTURE FROM FALLING AGAINST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2007 | Age: 59 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 |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL STRIKING CHEST AGAINST WALL SUSTAINED A CONTUSION T O CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2007 | Age: 78 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: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 79 YO FELL AGAINST WALL INJURED CHEST AREA FX RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2007 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL THROUGH THE CEILING NONDISPLACED FRACTURE BILATERAL RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2007 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT FELL AND HIT HEAD AGAINST WALL. DX: BACK PX, NECK PX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2007 | Age: 53 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, Refrigerators |
| PINNED B/T WALL&FRIDGE WHILE MOVING THE FRIDGE '' CW CONTS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2007 | Age: 81 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: Fracture |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Crutches, canes or walkers |
| FRACTURE RIBS - 81 YO FEMALE REPORTS AMBULATING BY WALKER AND SHE LOST HER BALANCE AND FELL INTO THE WALL STRIKING LEFT RIBS - NO OTHER COMPLA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/10/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| KNOCKED DOWN BY HORSE,PINNED AGAINST WALL AT HOME CHEST WALL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2007 | Age: 81 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 AGAINST CORNER OF WALL/RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2007 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PATIENT FELL DOWN IN A MOVIE THEATER AND INJURED HER RIGHT RIBS AGAINST A WALL. DX-BLUNT TRAUMA RIGHT CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2007 | Age: 84 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 |
| 84YOM FELL INTO CORNER MULTIPLE SKIN TEARS/ ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2007 | Age: 77 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 REPORTS A PIECE OF BATHROOM CEILING FELL ON HER BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2007 | Age: 53 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 |
| FELL THROUGH CEILING WHILE IN ATTIC FX RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2007 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| CONTUSION TO CHEST WHEN FELL THRU THE CEILING AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2007 | Age: 51 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FELL FROM A WALL LIVER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/02/2007 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PT TRIPPED AND HIT CHEST ON WALL ON CHRISTMAS EVE. CONTINUED PAIN. D: C HEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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