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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 780
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/07/2002 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers, Floors or flooring materials |
| HEAD INJ;LAC/WIFE STS HEARD THUMP WHILE SHE WAS IN BATHROOM & FOUND 85Y OHUSBAND ON FLOOR. STS HE HIT HEAD ON IRONING BOARD LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2002 | 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: Ironing boards or covers, Wheelchairs |
| HIT BY IRONING BOARD FALLING OUT OF CLOSET, HIT WHEELCHAIR DX. UPPER BA CK CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2002 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| 74YOBF-CLOSED HEAD INJURY-LEANING ON IRONING BOARD AT HOME-IT COLLASPED PATIENT FELL HIT HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2002 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| PATIETN WASLKED INTO THE LEG OF THE IRONING BOARD AT HOME. DX-TOE SPRAIN LEFT FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| PT FELL STRIKING RIGHT EYE AGAINST AN IRONING BOARD ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2002 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| TRIPPED OVER IRONING BOARD-FELL-FRACTURED FEMUR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/18/2002 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| FELL-HIT HEAD ON IRONING BOARD-CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| HIT RIGHT FIFTH TOE ON IRONING BOARD LEG AT HOME, TOE IS SWOLLEN AND DEFORMED. DX DISLOCATION RIGHT FIFTH TOE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2002 | Age: 100 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: Ironing boards or covers |
| 100 YOF TRIPPED OVER IRONING BOARD FX HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/20/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| CONTUSION LEFT FOOT, DROPPED A TABLE TOP IRONING BOARD ON FOOT AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| PATIENT HAD IRONING BOARD FALL ON HIM WHEN GOING TO BATHROOM AT NIGHT. D: FACE ABRASION, POSITIONAL VERTIGO, RENAL INSUFFICIENCY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2002 | Age: 79 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| ABDOMINAL PAIN AND LOW BACK PAIN FROM LIFTING IRONING BOARD THIS MORNIN G. ABDOMINAL WALL STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| SPRAIN LWR BACK, VIA EMS, PT STS GETTING OUT AN IRONING BOARD & SUSTINJ URY, C/O PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2002 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers |
| IN ASSISTED LIVING, FELL AND HIT IRONING BOARD, HX OF BLACK OUT SPELLS. CHEST WALL PAIN, S/P FALL, CXR ABNORMALITIES ?MASS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers, Floors or flooring materials |
| TRIPPED ON IRONING BOARD AT HOME AND FELL ONTO FLOOR ON RIGHT KNEE, CON TUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2002 | Age: 95 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Ironing boards or covers, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL & HIT IRON BOARD -- PAIN IN LOW BACK AREA PT ON FLOOR ALL NIGHT D X: THORACIC / LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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