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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,045
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2008 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| FELL AT HOME WHILE HANGING A PICTURE DX LT HIP FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 12/07/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| KNEE STRAIN-FELL WHILE HANGING A PICTURE ABOVE FIREPLACE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Floors or flooring materials |
| 70YOF CARRING PICTURE FRAMES INTO HER LAUNDRY ROOM,LOST BALANCE FELL TO RT KNEE STRIKING TILE FLOOR;KNEE FRACTURE,HEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/25/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Beds or bedframes |
| PT WAS SITTING ON BED, FELL OFF BED AND HIT HEA DON PICTURE FRAME DX: SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT LAC FOOT ON BROKEN GLASS PICTURE FRAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| 54YO BLACK FEMALE AT HOME CUT R 3RD DIGIT ON PICTURE FRAME DX LACERATION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| REPORTS 2 DAYS AGO WASH CHANGING A PICTURE FRAME&THINKS SUSTAINED A WOO DNE VERSUS A GLASS SPLINTER INTO HAND>> FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT WITH LAC TO FOOT, DROPPED A PICTURE ON FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| CUT FINGER ON GLASS FROM BROKEN PICTURE/ LAC RIF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| LOWER LEG LAC-CUT ON PICTURE FRAME-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| WRIST LAC ON PICTURE FRAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT PRICKED FINGER ON RUSTY NAIL FROM PICTURE FRAME 3 DAYS AGO. DX: HEALED SUPERFICIAL LAC R FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT WAS HANGING A GLASS PICTURE FRAME AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO FIN GER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT LAC FINGER ON GLASS PICTURE FRAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Handrails, railings or banisters |
| CONTUSION HAND - 63 YO FEMALE REPORTS INJURY AT HOME - HIT HAND AGAINST PICTURE FRAME AND THEN AGAIN ON HAND RAILING WHEN LEAVING THE ROOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT WITH CRUSHED FINGERS WHILE HANGING A PICTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Bathtubs or showers |
| 78YOM LIVING AT LANDMARK MANOR SENIOR CITIZEN COMPLEX,FELL IN HIS BATHROOM STRIKING A PICTURE FRAME ,FELL INTO BATHTUB;FOREARM LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PATIENT HAD A MECHANICAL FALL, TRIPPED OVER SOME PICTURES INJURING HER RIGHT KNEE AND RIGHT ANKLE. DX-CONTUSION AND SPRAIN TO KNEE AND ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| TOE LAC-HANGING PICTURE FRAME WHEN THE GLASS FELL ON TOE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Ceilings and walls |
| 6 CM LACERATION LT FOREARM, SUTURED: UNINTENTIONALLY BROKE DECORATIVE PLATE FROM THE WALL, LACERATED FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| FELL ON BROKEN GLASS PICTURE FRAME. DX-CONTUSION KNEE, SKIN AVULSION FO REARM # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PATIENT FELL, LOST BALANCE, FELL BACKWARDS HITTING HEAD ON PICTURE FRAME. DX-LAC. SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| HAND LAC-CUT ON GLASS OF PICTURE FRAME-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT CUT FINGER ON PICTURE FRAME AT HOME DX// LAC LEFT RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| WHILE IN THE HOSPITAL LAB, A PICTURE FRAME FELL ON HER. DX. ARM CONTUSI ON, HYPERTENSION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| LOW BACK PAIN-SINCE CARRYING A PICTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PICTURE FRAME FELL ON FOOT WHILE IN STORE, CONTUSION TO FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Not recorded | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT CUT 2ND DIGIT TAKING GLASS FROM METAL FRAMES. DX. LAC L INDEX FINGE R. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT DROPPED A PICTURE FRAME ON LT FOOT A WEEK AGO, C/O PERSISTENT PAIN, SWELLING & ERYTHEMA. DX-LT FOOT CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| FOOT LAC FROM FALLING PICTURE FRAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PICTURE FRAME FELL ONTO PT'S HEAD. DX: HEAD CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Ceilings and walls |
| 85 YOF STRUCK ON HEAD BY A PICTURE THAT FELL OFF THE WALL SUSTAINING HE AD INJURY WITH SCALP ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 55 YO MALE CUT RIGHT SIDE OF ABDOMEN WHILE CARRYING PICTURE FRAME AND BUMPED AGAINST DUMPSTER - LACERATION ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PICTURE FRAME FELL AND GLSS BROKE ON FOOT. DX. FOOT CONTUSION AND LACER ATION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT INJURED WHEN CUT FINGER ON BROKEN PICTURE FRAME DX: FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT WAS PUTTING A PICTRE IN A PICTURE FRAME AND POKED SELF IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH THER HANGING WIRE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT FELL AGAINST PICTURE FRAME LAC ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| 56 YOF WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD AND FACE BY A LARGE PICTURE THAT FELL SUS TAINING A CONCUSSION AND FACIAL CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Draperies, curtains or shower curtains |
| 61Y/O,F,GOT DIZZY WHILE HANGING CURTAIN, STEPPED INTO A BOX WITH PICTURE FRAMES, L FOOT PUNCTURE WOUNDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT SUS LACERATION TO HEAD WHEN HAMMER FELL AS PT WAS TRYING TO HANG PICTURE% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| CUT HAND ON PIECE OF GLASS FROM PICTURE FRAME LACERATION HAND # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT WAS TRYING TO HANG A PICTURE AND HAND GOT CAUGHT ON PICTURE-HANGING WIRE, CONTUSION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT DEVELOPED CELLULITIS TO R HAND FROM LAC FROM PICTURE FRAME AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2008 | 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: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| DX L RIB PAIN, POSSIBLE HAIRLINE FXR: MECHANICL FALL TRIPPED IN DARK & STRUCK L RIBS CAGE ON PICTURE FRAME, WHICH WAS ON FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT WAS CARRYING A FRAME AND THE GLASS FELL OUT OF IT SUSTAINED A LACERA TION TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations, Ceilings and walls |
| PLAQUE FELL OFF WALL & HIT HAND DX: FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT INJURED FINGER ON A BROKEN PICTURE FRAME AT HOME DX: AVUSION TO RIGHT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| DROPPED A HEAVY PICTURE FRAME ONTO BARE FOOT CAUSING HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2008 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PATIENT HIT LOWER LEG ON PICTURE FRAME AT HOME. DX-LACERATION LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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