Accidents - Christmas tree lights - Years 1997-2010 - Finger

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,888
See also: Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1997:	376
Year 1998:	208
Year 1999:	168
Year 2000:	69
Year 2001:	167
Year 2002:	83
Year 2003:	94
Year 2004:	152
Year 2005:	83
Year 2006:	116
Year 2007:	46
Year 2008:	146
Year 2009:	156
Year 2010:	17

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	583
6-15 years old:	168
26-50 years old:	716
50+ years old:	420

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 11/28/2010	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
4 YOM PRESENT TO ER WITH SLICED RT INDEX FINGER FROM A CHRISTMAS TREE L IGTING STICK- DX-SUPERFICIAL LACERATION TO RT 2ND DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/30/2009	Age: 16 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT LAC FINGER ON BROKEN CHRISTMAS TREE BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT CUT FINGER ON A CHRISTMAS TREE BULB NOW HAS LAC TO FINGER DX: FINGER LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2009	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
FINGER LAC-45 Y/O F-CUT ON OBJECT WHILE HANGING OUTDOR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2008	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
LAC TO FINGER, PT WAS CHANGING XMAS TREE BULB AND IT BROKE, CUTTING THUMB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/12/2008	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
77YMC STUCK FINGER WITH WIRE CONTACTS OF CHRISTMAS TREE MINI LIGHT BULB BEFORE CHRISTMAS/INFECTED FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/08/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Elec
Product: Christmas tree lights
REMOVED LIGHT BULB FROM STRAND OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND INSERTED FINGER AT HOME, WALKED TO FAMILY ROOM WITH BURN; ELECTRIC BURN TO FINGER/CALF
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/21/2007	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
63 YOM REMOVING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS LAC TO R PINKY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2006	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PRESENTED WITH LACERATION TO INDEX FINGER OF RIGHT HAND FROM BROKEN CHRISTMAS LIGHT AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2006	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS CUT ON BULB WHILE PUTTING ON XMAS TREE LIGHTS. DX: 1 CM LAC R FIFTH FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2006	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights, Desk supplies
FINGER FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL: + ETOH: PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND STAPLED L 4TH DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2005	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND STRUCK LEFT INDEX FINGER LACERATION FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2005	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PATIENT CUT FINGER ON CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB AT HOME; FINGER LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2005	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT CUT FINGER LAST WEEK ON A CHRISTMAS LIGHT; FINGER IS STILL RED AND S WOLLEN. D : LACERATION; WOUND INFECTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/22/2004	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
LAC L THUMB, 3RD FINGER, PT SUST INJURY WHILE FIXING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS A T HOME, C/O BLEEDING, PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2004	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT CUT FINGER ON A LIGHT BLUB 2 DAYS AGO ,TODAY BENT FINGER BACK,MOM CONCERNED IF FINGER REINJURED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2004	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Christmas tree lights
SKIN AVULSION RT INDEX FINGER - CUT FINGER ON A CHRISTMAS BULB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/17/2004	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Christmas tree lights
DX RIGHT INDEX FINGER PUNCTURE WOUND: INJURED FINGER WHEN CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BROKE AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/27/2003	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
LAC TO FINGER WHEN STRUCK ON CHRISTMAS LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2003	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Christmas tree lights
CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT WIRE WENT INTO FINGER YESTERDAY. NOW IT'S PAINFUL & SWOLLEN DX: PUNCTURE WOUND 2ND & 3RD DIGIT / CELLULITITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2003	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Elec
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS TESTING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, LITE SPARKED, PT SUSTAINED ELECTRICAL BURN TO FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT CUT FINGER ON CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2001	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2001	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2001	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2001	Age: 21 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2000	Age: 32 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/1999	Age: 14 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/1999	Age: 12 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/1999	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/1999	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/1999	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/1998	Age: 12 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/1998	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/1998	Age: 19 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/09/1998	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Elec
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/1998	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/24/1997	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/1997	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/1997	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/1997	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/1997	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/1997	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/1997	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/1997	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/25/1997	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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