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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 877
See also: Lethal accidents, Other age groups, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/09/2009 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| LOW BACK INJURY FROM FLIPPING OUT OF RAFT IN ***. DX-LUMBAR STRAIN, SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2009 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| LUMBAR INJURY FROM FLIPPING OUT OF WATER TUBE IN ***. DX-LUMBAR STRAIN, SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| CONTUS HEAD, SLIPPED WHILE GETTING INTO "FLOATY" AT THE WATERPARK, FELL BACKWARDS AND HIT HEAD ON CEMENT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| PT ON AN INNERTUBE IN THE GULF WHEN A WAVE KNOCKED HER OVER STRUCK HEAD ON THE SAND SUSTAINED A STRAINED NECK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| AT *** AMUSEMENT WAS STEPPING INTO A RUBBER RAFT FEET WENT UPNO LOC NO CT SCALP CONTUSION CERVICAL MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2006 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Flotation toys, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| PT WALKING ACROSS PATIO, TRIPPED OVER POOL TOY, FELL, CLOSED HEAD INJU RY, FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Flotation toys, Water slides |
| PT WAS AT A PARK RIDING AN INNER TUBE DOWN A WATER SLIDE WHEN SHE FX HER LT WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2003 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Flotation toys, Swimming |
| PT SWIMMING IN THE GULF TRIED TO GET OFF A FLOTATION DEVICE THEN STRAIN ED RIGHT UPPER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2003 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Flotation toys, Built-in swimming pools |
| LT 3RD FINGER FX-@ WATER PARK-MISSED INNER TUBE-HIT BOTTOM OF POOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2003 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| SUNBURN TO CHEST & ABDOMEN-FLOATING ON AIR RAFT @ WATER PARK IN WATER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2003 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Flotation toys, Swimming |
| PT OUT IN THE GULF SWIMMING WITH A FLOTATION NOODLE WAS CAUGHT IN THE W AVES AND BROUGHT UNDER- DROWNING |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/22/2002 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| PT IN THE GULF OFF THE COAST OF SANIBEL ON A RAFT WHEN A WAVE KNOCKED T HE RAFT OVER UNABLE TO GET OUT OF THE WATER- NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/24/2002 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| IRRITATED AREA CAUSED BY FLOTATION DEVICE. NONWORKSKIN INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2000 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/1999 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flotation toys, Swimming |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/1999 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/1998 | Age: 53 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flotation toys |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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