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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,088
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/11/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT JUMPED A FENCE AT HOME AND LANDED ON GLASS C/O LACERATION TO LOWER L EG. DX: LACERATION TO LOWER EXTREMITY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| CLIMBED OVER BARBWIRE FENCE SCRAPED LOWER LEG ON FENCE...ABRASION TO L OWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| LEFT TIBIA FX.PT WAS JUMPING OVER A FENCE AND TRIPPED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT HOPPED OVER FENCE AT HOME, INJURED LEG, DX LEG PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| R LOWER LEG LAC/42YOM SUSTAINED LAC R LOWER FROM A FENCE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| 35YOM ACCIDENTLY STRUCK RT CALF ON BARBED WIRE,THOUGHT CALF WAS DOING WELL,START HAVING REDNESS AND SWELLING;CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT LAC LOWER LEG AFTER CLIMBING A FENCE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PAIN TO CALF OF LEG AFTER CLIMBING OVER FENCE DX: LEG STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Doorsills or frames |
| RLE CELLULITIS: RUSHING THROUGH HOUSE, FORGOT GATE IN DOORWAY, GATE IS METAL, HIT IT, PUNCTURED LEG, FELL TO FLOOR, CALF SWOLLEN, 3 WKS AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT FELL WHILE JUMPING OVER A 4 FT FENCE, FX LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/08/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| JUMPED OVER A FENCE AND INJURED ANKLE. DX. FX. FIBULA.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT CUT L LOWER LEG ON METAL FENCE AT HOME. DX. LAC L LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Alcohol |
| PT, DRINKING ETOH, WAS JUMPING OVER METAL FENCE AND LACERATED LOWER LEG . D: LEG LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| SLIPPED IN WET GRASS, FELL OVER FENCE. DX LOWER LEG FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT WAS STANDING ON A DIRT HILL LEANING AGAINST A FENCE AND THE FENCE FE LL DOWN STRAINED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| RT SHIN ABRASION.PT INJURED SHIN A FENCE POST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT TRIED TO JUMP OVER BARBED WIRE FENCE 5 DAYS AGO AND CAUGHT CALF. D: AVULSION, CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| C/O LOWER LEG INJUREY STATUS POST FALLING OFF A FENCE, ?HIGHT, WHILE CL IMBING IT>>CONTS/ABRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Foods |
| PT PICKING STRAWBERRIES, CAUGHT LEG ON EDGE OF FENCE- @HOME -DEEP LACER ATION LOWER RIGHT LEG DX;RIGHT LOWER LEG LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Animal induced injury |
| PT SEPERATING DOGS FROM FIGHTING AND HIT LEG ON FENCE DX// CONTUSION RIGHT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT CAUGHT LEG WHILE CLIMBING OVER FENCE AT PARK. DX: L SHIN LAC 3 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT TRIPPED ON A FENCE AND TWISTED LEG. DX: R FIB FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| LACERATION LOWER LEG - 45 YO FEMALE FELL AGAINST A METAL FENCE FROM STA NDING POSITION - FENCE WAS FREE STANDING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| JUMPED FENCE TO BREAK UP FIGHT OF TWO DOGS,INVERTED ANKLE FX LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT CAUGHT HIS LEG ON STEEL/ METAL FENCE. D: CALF LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT CLIMBING OVER A FOUR FOOT GATE AND FELL FRACTURED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT CAUGHT LEG ON STEEL MESH FENCE AT HOME. D: LEG LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT WAS CLIMBING OVER FENCE AND CAUGHT HIS LEG/ LAC TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| STRAINED LEG SQUATTING WHILE PUTTING UP FENCE AT HOME STRAIN LOWER L EG # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| RT TIBIA FX.PT JUMPED OVER A FENCE AND FELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| FELL OVER A FENCE. DX- FRACTURE L FIBULA # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| TRIPPED ON A BARBED WIRE @ A PARKING LOT THEN FELL TWISTING LOWER LEG >>SPRAIN/CONTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| BACK OF LEG ABRASION FROM BARB WIRE. DX- INFECTED LACERATION LEFT LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| PT JUMPED A FENCE 5 DAYS ANG AND HAD THORNS FROM A CACTUS IN HIS LEG. D : ABCESS, CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Swimming pools |
| PT RUNNING AROUND POOL AND RAN INTO SURROUNDING FENCE STRIKING SHIN. D: SHIN ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PLAYING WITH THE KIDS TAG, JUMPED OVER A WOODEN FENCE SCRATCHING LEG >>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| LAC TO INSIDE L LEG ON FENCING AT HOME WHILE TAKING OUT TRASH. DX. LAC L LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT CUT LEFT LOWER LEG JUMPING A FENCE. DX-PUNCTURE WOUND LOWER LEG WITH CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| LACERATION RT.LEG.PT.REFERS WHILE CLOSING ELECTRIC GATE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT JUMPING OVER A FENCE AND CAME DOWN ONTO RIGHT LOWER LEG FRACTURED LE G |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/18/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT SUS FRACTURE TO LEG AFTER LEANING ON FENCE, FENCE GAVE IN AND LEAD TO PT FALL% |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| CLIMBING OVER FENCE,FELL AND LANDED ON KNEES,ACUTE TIBIAL PLATEAU FRACTURE BILATERAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT TRIPPED OVER ~ 2 FT FENCE AND C/O LEG PAIN. D: PARATHESIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT JUMPED A FENCE AND LACERATED LEG - AT A BAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| ABRASION LT.LEG.PT.REFERS FALLING DOWN HITTING FENCE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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