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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,035
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
Date: 12/28/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
DX;CONTUSION RIGHT HAND AFTER PT HIT HAND ON IRON RAILING. |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 12/25/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
PT HIT RIGHT HAND ON STAIR RAILING WHILE WALKING YESTERDAY. D: FRACTU RE LEFT HAND 3RD METACARPAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/19/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
GOT SPLINTER IN PALM FROM A RAILING |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/10/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT GOT HAND CAUGHT AGAINST THE RAILING AT HOME - PAIN AND SWELLING TO H AND SINCE. D: TRAUMA RIGHT HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/27/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
STRUCK HAND ON STAIR RAIL PREVIOUS DAY CONTUSION HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/22/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
HAND SPRAIN - 21 YOM SLIPPED YESTERDAY AND HIT BANISTER WITH RIGHT HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/06/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
FB R HAND; RUNNING HAND DOWN BANISTER AND GOT A SLIVER IN IT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/03/2002 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT WAS AT HOME WHEN SHE FELL OVER A RAILING CAUSING A CONTUSION TO HER LT HAND AND A CERVICAL STRAIN. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/14/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
HIT HAND AGAINST BANISTER DX: HAND CONTUSION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/10/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
LAC (L) HAND, PT SUST INJURY WITH A SHARP EDGES OF THE RAILING AT THE SUBWAY STATION, C/O MILD PAIN, SOME BLEEDING. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/08/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
RT PALM FB-SPLINTER FROM HANDRAIL AT NEIGHBOR HOUSE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/08/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PATIENT WITH HAND SWELLING AFTER HITTING RAILING ON FRIDAY. LEFT PRIOR TO MEDICAL SCREENING. |
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
Date: 09/25/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, In-line skating |
*** ON CITY HALL STEPS AND HIT HAND ON A RAILING CONTUSING IT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/24/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
FRACTURED HAND WHEN FELL ON RAILING AT CHURCH. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/17/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
CUT HAND ON RAILING DX. HAND LAC |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/17/2002 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
ABRASION LEFT HAND-PT FELL BACKWARDS WHILE REACHING FOR HANDRAIL. HAS I NJ TO LEFT HAND. NO LOC. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/07/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT HOLDING ONTO METAL RAIL WHEN POKEDDX: PUNCTURE WOUND RT PALM + |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/22/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
12-YOM SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF HIS HAND AS A RESULT OF A RAILING GIVIN G WAY AT HOME. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/19/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
LEFT HAND FX. PT HIT HAND AGAINST A RAILING. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/10/2002 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
LACERATION TO HAND FROM METAL ON RAILING...HAND LACERATION |
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
Date: 08/09/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Water slides |
PLAYING ON A WATERSLIDE IN THE PARK AND LAC HAND ON A RAILING |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/08/2002 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
CUT HAND ON RAILING |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/08/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT CUT RT HAND ON BANISTER, LACERATION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/31/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
LEFT HAND FRACTURE.PT CAUGHT HAND IN A HANDRAIL AND INJURED HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/23/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
CONTUSION LEFT HAND-SUS INJ TO LEFT HAND AFTER STRIKING IT ON METAL HAN DRAIL. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Not recorded | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT DX HAND LACERATION - S/P CUT BY HANDRAIL THAT STICK OUT. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/13/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT STRUCK HAND ON RAILING. DX: R HAND STRAIN/CONT. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/09/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
HIT HAND ON BANNISTER |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/02/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Fences or fence posts |
CONTUSION (L) HAND, PT SUST INJURY WITH A RAILING ON A FENCE, C/O PAIN, NO DEFORMITY OR SWELLING. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/27/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
PT GRABBED RAIL AND FELL ON BACK PORCH. DX: SPRAIN/CONT L HAND/WRIST. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
DIABETIC STRUCK HAND ON BANISTER DEVELOPING CELLULITIS NOW |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT HIT HAND ON BANNISTER |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Swimming pools |
PT STATES HIT THE METAL RAILING ON A SWIMMING POOL, INJURING HIS HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/29/2002 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
BURNED HAND ON RAILING THAT WAS HOT FROM SUN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/25/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT CUT HAND ON A METAL RAILING. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/21/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
FELL GOING UP STEPS, HIT HAND ON RAILING. DX: CONTUSION LEFT HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/16/2002 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
GOT SPLINTER IN HAND FROM RAILING |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/15/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT STATES HE PUNCHED A BANISTER |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/09/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
TRIPPED & CUT HAND ON HAND STAIR RAILDX: LACERATION LT. HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/08/2002 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT FALLING TRIED TO CATCH SELF AND CUGHT HAND ON METAL BRACKET ONBANIST ER DX HAND FX |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/07/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
STARTED TO FALL, CAUGHT SELF ON HAND RAILING AND TWISTED LEFT HAND, SPR AIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/01/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
WALKING AND CAUGHT HAND IN RAILING AND FELL OVER FX HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/25/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
CUT HAND ON RAILING |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/07/2002 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
HIT HAND ON RAILING,HEMATOMA TO TOP OF L HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/22/2002 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT FELL AGAINST THE RAILING OF A WALKWAY GOING INTO A RESTAURANT LACERA TION RIGHT HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/19/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
SLIPPED ON STAIRS AND HIT RIGHT AHDN AGAINST METAL HANDRAIL, BROKEN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/05/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
STRUCK HAND ON BANNISTER - CONTUSION HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/27/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
PATIENT STRUCK HAND AGAINST BANISTER WHEN GOING UP STAIRS AT HOME; HAND CONTUSION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/24/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
THIS PM, HIT BANNISTER WITH RIGHT HAND, PAIN AND FINGERS NUMB. LEFT WI THOUT BEING SEEN. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/03/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
$PW LEFT HAND WITH FB.PT RECEIVED A SPLINTER FROM A WOODEN RAILING IN HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/01/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
51 Y/O M INJURED L HAND WHEN GOT SPLINTER FROM RAILING AT HOME. DX; SPLINTER, L PALM. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/29/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
34 YO M HAND HIT BANISTER CAUSING PUNCTURE TO HAND PUNCTURE WOUND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/28/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
HAND INFECTION- PT. GOT A SPLINTER IN HIS HAND FROM A BANNISTER. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/20/2002 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PATIENT WAS PLAYING WITH HIS TEENAGE SONS AND HIT HIS HAND ON A RAIL. DX-CONTUSION LEFT HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/15/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters |
PT HAD SLPINTER IN HAND FROM RAILING, FB HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/14/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Handrails, railings or banisters, Stairs or steps |
WALKING UP STAIRS AT SCHOOL AND BENT FINGER BACK ON HAND RAIL.R 5TH MET ACARPAL FX $ |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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