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Accidents - Elevators or other lifts - Year 2006 - All Of Body

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 309
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records


Date: 12/07/2006Age: 64 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Elevators or other lifts
PT SZ SNOKE INHALATION - S/P TRAPPED IN ELEVATOR FOR 30 MINUTES WITH SMOKE.FIRE DEPT ATTENDED.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/07/2006Age: 67 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Elevators or other lifts
PT DX SMOKE INHALATION - S/P PT WAS TRAPPED IN ELEVATOR WITH SMOKE FOR 30 MINUTES.FIRE DEPT ATTENDED.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/09/2006Age: 82 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Elevators or other lifts
PT FOUND DOWN ON BOTTOM OF ELEVATOR AT THE HOSPITAL DX:SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 07/21/2006Age: 21 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Elevators or other lifts
21 YO FEMALE WAS STUCK IN ELEVATOR ANXIETY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/26/2006Age: 21 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Elevators or other lifts
PT WITH SYNCOPE EPISODE GETTING CLOSED IN DOOR OF ELEVATOR AT THE HOSPITAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/15/2006Age: 40 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Elevators or other lifts
SEIZURE DISORDER - FELL TO FLOOR OF ELEVATOR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/10/2006Age: 89 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Elevators or other lifts
PT WAS STEPPING INTO AN ELEVATOR WHEN HE BECAME LIGHTHEADED AND PASSED OUT SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/20/2006Age: 10 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Electric Shock
Product: Elevators or other lifts
PT DX ELECTROCUTION - S/P ELECTRICAL INJURY,PT WAS PUSHING ELEVATOR BUTTON AND WAS SHOCKED FOR APPROXIMATELY 20 SECONDS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/16/2006Age: 85 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Elevators or other lifts
WAS FOUND IN THE ELEVATOR PASSED OUT, UNSURE HOW LONG PT HAD BEEN THERE. CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

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