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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 613
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2005 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PT @ HOME PLAYING WITH MINIBLINDS CUT FINGERS. DX LACERATION TO RIGHT 4 & 5TH FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| BLIND FELL ON FOREHEAD DX: FOREHEAD LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| DX NECK INJURY: BLIND CORDS GOT WRAPPED AROUND NECK AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| CUT PUBIC REGION, ROPE OF MINI BLIND CUT CHILD WHILE CLIMBING UP TO WI NDOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PATIENT STUCK A PIECE OF PLASTIC FROM A WINDOW SHADE INTO HER NOSE ON THE LEFT SIDE. DX - FOREIGN BODY LEFT NARIS REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| STRANGLED WITH WINDOW BLIND CORD WHEN PLAYING FIREMAN AND CORD WAS WATE R HOSE AND HE PUT AROUND NECK. NO COLOR CHANGE, BUT MADE MARKS ON NECK |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 09/11/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| NOSE FB-SMALL PIECE OF MINI BLINDS REMOVED FROM NOSE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| AT RESTAURANT AND A BLIND HIT PATIENT IN FOREHEAD AND FACE LACERATION F OREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PATIENT'S MOM WAS INSTALLING BLINDS AT HOME, PATIENT HAD STICK TO BLIND IN MOUTH WHILE RUNNING SUSTAINING A PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| DX LEFT TOP OF FOOT LACERATION: DROPPED BLINDS ONTO FOOT AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| WINDOW BLINDS FELL DX. HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2005 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| 22M/F BLIND FELL ON PT AND STRUCK HER EYE AT HOME TODAY,EYELID SWOLLEN, CAN FOLLOW LIGHT W/ EYE; RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PT PULLED WINDOW BLINDS DOWN ON HIMSELF. DX: LAC LIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| LACERATION EYEBROW - 4 YOM WAS PULLING ON WINDOW SHADES WHEN SHADES FEL LL CUTTING PT'S LEFT EYEBROW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PT @ HOME HE CAUGHT HIS TOOTH ONTO MINIBLINDS CORD WHICH PULLED HIS TOOTH OUT. DX AVULSION TOOTH DENTAL TRAUMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PT & SISTER WERE PLAYING " SWORDS" WITH RODS FROM THE BLINDS, & HIT HIS MOUTH- NOW HAS BLOOD TINGED SALIVA. DX: TONSIL ECCHYMOSIS, SOFT TISSUE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| DENAL AVULSION, PATIENT HAD STRING FROM BLINDS BETWEEN TEETH AND LET GO OF STRING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2005 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| INJURED FINGER ON WINDOW BLINDS DX: NO DX. OR INFO ON CHART PT. LEFT PRIOR TO BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/25/2005 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PUT A PEICE OF MINI (VENETIAN) BLIND IN MOUTH LACERATION LEFT PERITONSILLAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| RAN INTO BLINDS @ HOME DX FACIAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2005 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| ABRASION L EYE - GOT POKED IN EYE WITH A VENETIAN BLIND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| 22 MOM STRUCK IN EYE BY WINDOW BLIND ABRASION CORNEAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2005 | Age: 17 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Window shades, venetian blinds or indoor shutters |
| PT. WAS CHEWING ON THE PLASTIC CAP FROM MINI BLIND PULL, PT. FELL & LT. CANINE TOOTH GOT PULLED LOOSE. DX: DENTAL TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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