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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,016
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/29/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| AT HOME LACERATED R THIGH ON BROKEN LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| 2 Y/O M C/O SWALLOWED A SMALL BLINKING LIGHT. DX: SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT WITH LIGHT FIXTURE FALLING ON HEAD, CONTUSION/LWBS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/08/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT WITH LIGHT FIXTURE FALLING ON HEAD, CONTUSION/LWBS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/04/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT WITH SWINGING METAL LAMP HITTING PT THIS AM WITH LT EYELID LACERATI ON |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/28/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| CUT HEAD ON LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT HIT HEAD ON A BROKEN LIGHT FIXTURE, HAS LACERATION TO TOP OF HEAD. D: SUPERFICIAL HEAD LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| LEFT ARM LACERATION - LAMP BROKE WHEN PULLING IT OVER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| BROKEN LIGHT LACERATED ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PATIENT HIT HEAD ON LIGHT POLE AT BABYSITTER'S HOUSE; FOREHEAD HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT C/O LACERATION TO LT FOOT S/P A LAMP FELL ON PATIENT'S LT FOOT ABOUT 6:00 PM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2002 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| LIGHT FIXTURE BROKE, LACERATION TO GREAT TOE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON PATIENT'S HEAD AT HOME, LIGHT BROKE CUTTING HEAD; FOREHEAD LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PATIENT STEPPED ON A BROKEN LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME. DX: 1 CM LACERATION TO RT FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| FOREHEAD LAC, VIA EMS, PT STRUCK EDGE OF A LAMP SHADE AT HOME, NO LOC, C/O SOME BLEEDING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| 2 YR OLD MALE NEON STICK BROKE AND FLUID GOT INTO HIS EYE. TRANSFERREDT O WILLS EYE HOSPITAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/14/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| 3 YOF CUT ON LIGHT GLOBE LAC HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2002 | Age: 3 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: Lighting equipment |
| LAMP FELL ON PT WHILE SHE WAS TURNING IT ON, |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/07/2002 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT SUSTAINED LACERATION TO THE SCALP AFTER FALLING BACKWARDS AND HITTING HEAD AGAINST BASE OF LAMP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PATIENT TOUCHED A HOT LAMP OUTSIDE AT HOME; 2ND DEGREE BURN TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PATIENT FELL ON METAL LAMP POST HOLDER AT AUNT'S YARD; KNEE LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| CUT EYEBROW WHEN RAN INTO LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT WAS RUNNING AT HOME WHEN A LAMP BROKE AND FELL, RESULTING IN A HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| CUT HEAD WHEN LIGHT FIXTURE FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment, Beds |
| PATIENT WAS JUMPING ON THE BED AT HOME AND HIT A BROKEN LIGHT FIXTURE.D X-LACERATION LEFT LEG, ABRASION FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT.INJ.FOREHEAD AT HOME WHEN A LIGHT FIXTURE FELL & HIT HIM. DX; LAC.FO REHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| HHEMATOMA HEAD WHEN LIGHT FIXTURE FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2002 | Age: 2 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| CHI - ANOTHER WOMAN WAS HOLDING BABY AND CHILD HIT HEAD ON LAMP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2002 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL PIECES OF GLASS HIT PT ON LT CHEEK,LACERATON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| LIGHT CASING FELL HITTING PATIENT ON HEAD AT HOME; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| CUT HAND ON BROKEN LIGHT FIXTURE. DX: LACERATION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PT DX LACERATION OF NOSE "A PEINCE OF GLASS FROM LIGHT FIXTURE CAME DOWN AND HIT CHILD'S FACE" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PATIENT BURNED HAND ON LAMP AT HOME, NOT SPECIFIED TYPE OF LAMP; HAND B URN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| DX RIGHT WRIST LACERATION: GLASS FIXTURE BROKE AND FELL ONTO HAND AT H OME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PATIENT CUT FOOT ON GLASS FROM LIGHT FIXTURE; FOOT LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2002 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| PULLED LAMP TOWARD SELF BURNING RT CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2002 | Age: 3 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: Lighting equipment |
| LAMP FELL OUT OF STORAGE CLOSET AND ONTO CHILD'S FOREHEAD. D: FOREHEAD LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Lighting equipment, Ceilings and walls |
| GLASS LIGHT COVER FELL FROM CEILING AND LANDED ON PTS HEAD. D: CONCUS SION WITHOUT LOC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2002 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lighting equipment |
| FATHER STATES CHILD PULLED A LAMP DOWN ON HIMSELF DX: ACUTE MINOR HEAD INJURY WITH NASAL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment, Ball sports |
| PT WAS THROWING A BALL AND BROKE GLASS LIGHT FIXTURE, GLASS FELL & HIT PT ON FACE. D: LACERATION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment, Ceilings and walls |
| LIGHT FELL FROM CEILING AND LACERATED FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lighting equipment, Ceilings and walls |
| CHILD HIT ON CHEEK WITH FALLING GLASS FROM LAMP ON CEILING. D: CHEEK LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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