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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,247
See also: Lethal and non-lethal accidents, Other years, Other body parts.
Lethal Accidents - Related Products:
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2008 | Age: 3 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: Doors, Floors or flooring materials |
| HEAVY BI-FOLD CLOSET DOOR FELL ON PATIENT WHO WAS ON FLOOR AT HOME, MOM HEARD NOISE AND FOUND PT UNDER FALLEN DOOR, LOC; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| PT FELL DOWN FLIGHT OF STEPS. DX; HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Toilets |
| 33 YOM COLLAPSED AND FELL FROM TOILET CLOSED HEAD INJURY - CTB |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Tables |
| 61 YOM GOT UP TO USE BATHROOM PASSED OUT AND HIT JAW ON NIGHTSTAND;CEAS E-TO-BREATH, CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/16/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| 69 YOM COLLAPSED AND FELL TO FLOOR AT CASINO CLOSED HEAD INJURY- EXPIRED |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/09/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| 70 YOM PASSED OUT AND FELL TO FLOOR CLOSED HEAD INJURY - CTB |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/07/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Weight lifting |
| PT WAS WITH DAD WHO WAS WEIGHT LIFTING WHEN WEIGHT WHIPPED BACK & HIT PT. DX: DEVASTATING HEAD INJURY W/DEPRESSED SKULL FX. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Bicycles or accessories, Licensed two-wheeled motor vehicles |
| HEAD/ ABD BLUNT TRAUMA-RIDING BIKE IN A PARKING LOT WHEN DAD-DOING STUN TS ON A MOTORCYLE-RAN OVER PT-PT EXPIRED IN ED |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| CHI. PT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON FLOOR |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 09/19/2008 | Age: 32 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Exercise equipment |
| EXERCISING ON TREADMILL AT THE CLUB AND COLLAPSED AND WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST, DIED IN ER |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 09/12/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| 81 YO MALE WAS DIZZY AND COLLAPSED TO FLOOR CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 09/05/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Ladders |
| FELL OFF LADDER, OPEN SKULL FRACTURE, UNRESPONSIVE. DX MASSIVE HEAD INJ URY, ED DEATH |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 90 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: Greenhouse or gardening supplies, Floors or flooring materials |
| EARLIER, TRIPPED&FELL HITTING HEAD AGINST A FLOWER POT, NO LOC @ THIS T IME, LATER FOUND BY HUSBAND ON BED FROOM FLOOR>>INTRACRANIAL HEAMOR,DOA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Monkey bars, playground gyms or other playground climbing apparatus |
| 10 YOM HAD WITNESSED GRAND MAL SEIZURE AND FELL FROM *** SUBARACHNOID B LEED |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/15/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| 82 YO MALE COLLAPSED AND FELL TO FLOOR AT CASINO CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Bicycles or accessories |
| BICYCLIST STRUCK BY PICK UP TRUCK. D:MASSIVE RIGHT CHEST INJURY W/ FLAI L CHEST, LIKELY HEMO-PNEUMOTHORAX, CHI. DIED. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/13/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| 67 YOM FELL TO FLOOR AT HOMECONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/12/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Bicycles or accessories |
| PT RIDING HIS BIKE WITHOUT A HELMET STRUCK BY A CAR SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY FRACTURED SKULL AND SUBARACHNOID BLEEDING DEAD |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: All-terrain vehicles |
| 4 WHEELER ACCIDENT NO HELMET DX SKULL FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: All-terrain vehicles |
| 4 WHEELER ACCIDENT, NO HELMET, UNRESPONSIVE, LOST VITAL SIGNS. DX MASSI VE HEAD INJURY, TRAUMA ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 19 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: Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| PATIENT FELL OFF A BALCONY, WAS FOUND WITH SKULL FRACTURE WITH BRAIN PROTRUDING THROUGH ONE OF THE FRACTURES. DX-DEATH 2ND-SIGNIF HD TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 07/22/2008 | Age: 45 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: Swimming pools |
| 45 YO F LACERATION/PUNCTURE TO OCCIPUT, FOUND FLOATING IN SWIMMING POOL BY HUSBAND, PT DOA* |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 07/15/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| PT FELL 5 STORIES FROM WINDOW. DX: MASSIVE HEAD TRAUMA. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/16/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Bicycles or accessories |
| PT IN A PARKING LOT INTOXICATED ON A BIKE WAS HIT AND THEN RUN OVER BY A STREET SWEEPER SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/08/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| ICH. PT FEL DOWN A FLIGHT OF STEPS. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| PT THROWN TO THE FLOOR TWICE AT DAYCARE BY A 7 YO CHILD WHILE DAYCARE W ORKER WASNT PRESENT. PT UNRESP. IN ARREST. SKULL FXS. DX TRAUM. ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 05/24/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Horseback riding |
| FELL OFF HORSE AND WAS DRAGGED BY HORSE;DX DOA/CHI |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 05/22/2008 | Age: 90 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: Bathtubs or showers |
| FELL IN SHOWER. DX- SUBDURAL HEMORRHAGE, EXPIRED # |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Exercise |
| ROCK FELL ON HEAD WHILE HIKING SEVERE BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| SUBDURAL HEMATOMA-UNWITNESSED FALL TO FLOOR-@ HOME-EXPIRED IN ED |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 04/07/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Beds or bedframes, Floors or flooring materials |
| AS PER WIFE, PT WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF HIS BED AND SHE HEARD A NOISE IN THE FLOOR. DX. ACUTE HEMORRHAGE BLEED INTRACRANIAL. (PT DIED IN ER) |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 03/25/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Riding toys |
| RODE TOY MOTORCYCLE INTO STREET AND HIT BY CAR;DX CHI AND MULTIPLE INJU RIES |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 03/02/2008 | Age: 4 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FOUND BY DAD ON THE FLOOR AFTER FALLING FROM THE COUCH - CARDIAC ARR EST - INVESTIGATION FOR POSSIBLE HOMICIDE - ACITVE AT THIS TIME |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/23/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Alcohol, Stairs or steps |
| PT WAS INTOXICATED WO\ITH BAL OF 293 FELL DOWN STEPS DX CLOSE HEAD INJURY/ETOH INTOXICATION |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/07/2008 | Age: 51 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: Counters or countertops |
| HEAD TRAUMA - 51 YO FEMALE SLIPPED IN HER KITCHEN HITTING HEAD ON COUNT ERTOP - PRESENTS WITH ALTERED MENTAL STATUS - PT DIED ON CT SCAN MACHIN |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 01/24/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials |
| SAH. PT FELL TO FLOOR HITTING HEAD AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 01/23/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Floors or flooring materials, Bathtubs or showers |
| COLLAPSED ON FLOOR IN BATHROOM STRIKING HER HEAD ON THE BATHTUB, PTIN A FULL ARREST. CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST SECONDARY MYOCARDIAL INF.* |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
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