Accidents - Clotheslines or clothes drying racks - Year 2006 - Upper Trunk

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 76
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	5
50+ years old:	71

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 09/28/2006	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
PT C/O OF MID BACK PAIN WHEN TRYING TO SET UP A CLOTHES LINE DX; THORACIC STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/06/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Clotheslines or clothes drying racks, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PULLING DOWN CLOTHES LINE & NAIL EMBEDDED INTO SKIN/CHEST, LUNGS SOUND CL & EQUAL BIL, STATES HAVING SLIGHT DIFFICULTY BREATHING
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

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