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Accidents - Clotheslines or clothes drying racks - Year 2006 - Head

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 429
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Date: 11/05/2006Age: 25 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PATIENT RAN INTO A CLOTHESLINE AT HOME WHILE PLAYING WITH THE CHILDREN. DX-LACERATION SCALP 2CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/24/2006Age: 11 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
HIT HEAD ON MIDDLE OF CLOTHING RACK IN CLOTHING STORE DX: CHI, CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/15/2006Age: 13 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Concussion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE & FLIPPED OVER ONTO GROUND, HIT HEAD CONCUSSION AND CONTUSION OF NECK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/10/2006Age: 40 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Poles
~PT RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE POLE, C/O LACERATION TO L SIDE OF HEAD PASSED OUT FOR A FEW MINUTES, DX; LAC. L SCALP/
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/05/2006Age: 8 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Concussion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO CLOTHES LINE, FLEW BACK AND HIT HEAD/ ABRASION CONTUSION NECK, CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/10/2006Age: 54 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Manual push mowers
LAC SCALP; MOWING LAWN & RAN INTO CLOTHESLINE CAUSING LAC TO TOP OF HEA D.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/27/2006Age: 23 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
FELL HIT HEAD ON CLOTHS RACK DX: CONTUSION TO HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/22/2006Age: 16 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
RAN INTO A CLOTHES LINE CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/05/2006Age: 6 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Poles
DX LACERATION TO HEAD: SWINGING ON CLOTHES LINE AT HOME, HIT METAL POLE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/17/2006Age: 8 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT. WAS PLAY'G ON CLOTHES RACK + FELL HITT'G SIDE OF FACE YEST. HAS PER IORBITAL EDEMA TODAY, RED SCLERA, INNER CANTHUS. C/O H/A. DX.: HEAD INJ
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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