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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 518
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/26/2010 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 85 Y/O FEMALE WAS CLEANING CHANDELIER LOST BALANCE AND FELL AT HOME DX: LACERATION RIGHT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2010 | Age: 54 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: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 54 Y MALE GLASS CHANDERLIER FELL ON LOWER LEG DX: LAC TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 53YOM CHANGING A LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME AND DROPPED IT THE METAL EDGE STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT LOWER LEG LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2007 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Beds or bedframes |
| FELL OFF BED WHILE CLEANING CHANDELIER. DX. FX. TIBIA.* |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/12/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 1. 5 CM LACERATION RT ACHILLES AREA: KITCHEN CEILING LIGHT FELL ONTO LEG, RT ACHILLES AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2005 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT WAS CARRYING A LARGE CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE WHEN HE DROPPED IT ONTO H IS RIGHT LOWER LEG LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2004 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HAD A LIGHT FISXTURE FALL ONTO HIS LEFT LOWER LEG LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2004 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 63 YO MALE HAD GLASS FROM CEILING LIGHT FALL ON LEG LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2001 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Mirrors or mirror glass |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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