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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 824
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/07/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| WORKING WITH 12GAUGE ELECTRICAL WIRE THAT FELL 1 FT STRIKING EYE, PT WEARS CONTACTS DX: EPISCLERAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| ELECTRICAL BURN TO HAND AFTER HAND CAUGHT IN ?ELECTRICAL WIRE " HAND BURN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2005 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| SCALP LACERATION-GOT UP TO ANSWER DOOR BELL AND FELL BACKWARDS. STRUCK HEAD. SUS A 4CM LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Floors or flooring materials |
| WOUND FOREHEAD.PT.REFERS GOT TANGLE IN ELECTRIC CORDS,FALLING DOWN FLOO R AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT TRIPPED OVER AN ELECTRICAL CORD, FELL TO THE FLOOR AT HOME. DX-DISLOCATED SHOULDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| STOOD UP AND HIT HEAD ON METAL JUNCTION BOX AT HOME. DX: LACERATION SC ALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2005 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| LACERATION FACE - PATIENT REPORTS SHE TRIPPED AND FELL WHEN TRYING TO L OCATE LIGHT SWITCH IN DARK - SMALL LACERATION OVER LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2005 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| GOT UP TO GO TO BR,CAULDN' T GET TO LIGHT SWITCH, FELL ONTO HIP. " HIP FX" |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/19/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| BURNED W/ ELECTRICAL WIRE~250 DC TODAY. PARTIAL THICKNESS ELECTRICAL BU RN RT ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT WAS REWIRING HIS HOUSE WHEN A WIRE JAMMED INTO HIS RIGHT FIFTH FINGE R FOREIGN BODY FINGER ELECTRICAL WIRE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2005 | Age: 100 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PATIENT WAS REACHING FOR A LIGHT SWITCH, FELL & INJURED HIS FOREHEAD AND RIGHT EYE.PATIENT IS 100 YRS OLD. DX - RIGHT EYEBROW LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2005 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Floors or flooring materials |
| TRIPPED OVER WIRES IN FLOOR AT CHURCH DX RIGHT HIP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT WAS BEHIND MONASTERY IN WOODED AREA , PULLING UP ELECTRICAL WIRING F OUND DOWN DX SYCOPE VS SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| CHEST PAIN,HOUSE POSSIBLY OLD WIRING IN HOUSES, FUSES BLEW OFTEN, FIRE, FD ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2005 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| LACERATION TOE - 61 YOM TRIPPED OVER A CABLE WIRE LACERATING HIS LEFT G REAT TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2005 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| FELL WHILE TURNING ON LIGHT SWITCH-FX HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/11/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT INTOXICATED, TOUCHED 277 DC VOLT WIRE, NOW HAS CHEST DISCOMFORT AND NUMBNESS IN LT HAND, ELECTRIC SHOCK INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2005 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF THE SCALP FROM STRIKING A LIGHT SWITCH AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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