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Accidents - Water skiing - Year 2003 - Head

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 795
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
Accidents - Age:
6-15 years old:113
16-25 years old:393
26-50 years old:289

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records


Date: 09/27/2003Age: 16 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Water skiing
PT HIT HEAD ON WAKEBOARD AFTER HE FLIPPED. DX: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, SCALP LAC 4 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/31/2003Age: 20 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Water skiing
FELL HARD INTO WATER WHILE WATER BOARDING INJURING HEAD. DX: MILD HEAD TRAUMA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/16/2003Age: 37 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Concussion
Product: Water skiing
DX GRADE 1 CONCUSSION: FELL ON LEFT FACE IN WATER @ 50-60 MPH WHILE WAKEBOARDING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/10/2003Age: 10 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Water skiing
PT SUSTAINED INJ L SIDE OF FOREHEAD WHEN STRIKING A WATER SKI - LOC LAC ERATION FOREHEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/08/2003Age: 15 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Water skiing
WAKE BOARDING IN LAKE, HIT IN HEAD WITH WAKE BOARD. DX; SCALP LACERATI ON.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/07/2003Age: 16 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Water skiing
SCALP LAC/16YOF FELL WATERSKIING & SKI HIT HER IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD. HAS LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/20/2003Age: 33 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Water skiing
IN BOAT ON LAKE, WAKE BOARD NOT TIED DOWN AND FELL ON HEAD. DX:LACEAT ION SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/06/2003Age: 41 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Water skiing
HIT ON TOP OF HEAD FROM A SKI ROPE,LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/05/2003Age: 37 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Water skiing
HIT IN HEAD WITH WAKE BOARD WHILE BOARDING AT LAKE. DX: LACEARATION SC ALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/04/2003Age: 14 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Water skiing
FRACTURED SKULL WHEN WATERSKIING AND WAKEBOARD HIT HIM
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 06/30/2003Age: 21 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Concussion
Product: Water skiing
21 YO M WAKEBOARDING ON LAKE, SEVERE HEADACHE AFTER LANDING HARD IN WAT ER. DX CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/07/2003Age: 20 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Concussion
Product: Water skiing
FELL HARD WAKE BOARDING ON LAKE, CAUGHT EDGE OF BOARD WHEN FELL, BECAME CONFUSED, MEMORY LOSS. DX: CONCUSSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/01/2003Age: 43 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Other
Product: Water skiing
PT.INJ.HEAD WHEN AT LAKE *** & FELL FROM WAKE BOARD, NO L.O.C. HAS THRO BBING PAIN IN HEAD. DX; HEADACHE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/17/2003Age: 17 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Concussion
Product: Water skiing
INJURED WHILE SKIING DX. CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/13/2003Age: 18 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Water skiing
18 Y/O F C/O LAC TO SCALP. PT WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH SKI ROPE WHILE S KIING . DX LAC TO SCALP AND CONT TO HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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