Accidents - Rope or string - 0-5 years old - Year 2009

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 870
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Toe:	209	Internal:	202
Lower Arm:	119	Head:	108
Face:	84	Foot:	69
Lower Trunk:	37	Elbow:	16
Wrist:	6	Eyeball:	6
Upper Leg:	6	Ear:	6

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/25/2009	Age: 5 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: Rope or string
5YOM RUNNING ON THE BEACH AND RAN INTO A ROPE THAT WAS TIED TO PYLONS A ND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2009	Age: 2 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
REDNESS OF RT 4TH TOE, LOOKS LIKE STRING OR THREAD HAS BEEN WRAPPED TIGHTLY AROUND TOE. DX: TOE TOURNIQUET SYNDRONE*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/06/2009	Age: 7 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
STRING WRAPPED AROUND TOE. DX. EXTREMITY SWELLING.*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/19/2009	Age: 3 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
PT SUSTAINED ABRASION TO TOE WHEN HER PARENTS FOUND A PIECE OF STRING AROUND HER TOE AND CUT IT OFF*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
GOT FOOT TANGLED IN DOG ROPE AND FELL HURTING FOOT CONTUSION FOOT #
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
MOTHER STATES CHILD STUCK PLASTIC STRING UPNOSE/ NASL FB RESOLVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/15/2009	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Rope or string
PT SWALLOWED A STRING STARTED TO CHOKE FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/11/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rope or string
CUT EAR WITH ROPE;DX LACERATED EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Rope or string
SWINGING ON A ROPE AND BANGED INTO A TREE. DX CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/23/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Rope or string
PT WITH BM WITH BROWN STRING LIKE MATERIAL.PT DENIES EATING ANY STRING C/O ABDOMINAL PAIN EARLIER. DX: FOREIGN BODY INGESTION(PEDS)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/21/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
FELL ON FACE YESTERDAY WHILE WEINGING ON A ROPE AT HOME. DX-CONTUSION NOSE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
PT WAS @ HOME FELL ONTO FOLDED ARMS WHILE PLAYING TUG OF WAR WITH DOG TRIPPED OVER THE ROPE. DX -LEFT PROXIMAL ULNAR FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/04/2009	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
RUNNING, HOLDING ONTO A ROPE, FELL LANDED ONTO LT LOWER ARM; + DEFORMIT Y. DX: LT FOREARM FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2009	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rope or string
PLAYING TUG OF WAR WITH ROPE;DX LACERATED EYEBALL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
INJURED HAND WHILE SWINGING ON A ROPE. DX RIGHT FOREARM FRACTURE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2009	Age: 1 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
ROPE BURN (ABRASION) LEFT ARM SKIN RASH PER DOCTOR FROM EXTENSIVE ABRASIONS - SUPERFICIAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
TRIPPED OVER ROPE AND LANDED ON KNEE. DX FEMRU FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/05/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
2 Y/O C/O STRING IN HIS RECTUM, STRING 10CM, REMOVED STRING FROM RECTUM. DX-FOREIGN BODY RECTUM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/14/2009	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: Wrist		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rope or string
PT FELL OFF OF A ROPE SWING AND LANDED ON HIS OUTSTRETCHED L ARM. HAS P AIN IN L WRIST. DX L WRIST FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/14/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Rope or string
PT SWALLOWED THE STRING FROM A CANDY NECKLACE FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/01/2009	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rope or string
PT WAS PLAYING IN BACKYARD SWINGING ON A ROPE ATTACHED TO A BAR, FELL ON GRASS, C/O RT ARM PAIN. DX-RT ELBOW & FOREARM CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/28/2009	Age: 19 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
MOM FOUND A PIECE OF STRING IN RECTUM OF CHILDF/B INTESTINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/15/2009	Age: 1 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
DX HAIR TOURNIQUET-REMOVED: BABYSITTER NOTICED CHILD FUSSY & SAWSTRING WRAPPED TIGHT AROUND 3RD TOE & TOE VERY RED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2009	Age: 12 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
PT TO ED WITH STRING CAUGHT AROUND TOE DX; TOE PAIN, 2ND DEGREE STRAN GULATION OF TOE, RESOLVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Rope or string
DX: F.B. STRING COMING FROM ANUS. MOM NOTICED DURING STOOL AND TRIED TO PULL OUT BUT UNABLE TO B/C OF PAIN SO CAME TO CHO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Rope or string
PT'S BROTHER WAS SWINGING TOW HOOK ON A ROPE AND IT HIT PT. DX: 1 CM SCALP LAC, MINOR CLOSED HEAD INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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