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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,342
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 07/16/2010 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| 41YOM FELL 30 FEET OFF A LADDER THAT HAD KICKED OUT - FX LEFT WRIST & FACIAL LACERATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2009 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| FELL OFF LADDER AND HURT LEFT WRIST SPRAINED WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PT FELL OFF 8FT. LADDER-BILATERAL WRIST FRACTURES |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| 49 YO M CONTUSION TO WRIST & RIBS FELL 6 FT OFF LADDER AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PT SUSTAINED BECAUSE OF SPRAIN TO THE WRIST WHEN CLIMBING A LADDER.? |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PT FELL OFF LADDER-FX WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| SLIDING LADDER CAME DOWN ON BOTH OF PT'S WRISTS. DX: CONT BILAT WRISTS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PT FELL FROM EXTENSION LADDER AND FX WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/12/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PT SLIPPED AND FELL OFF LADDER-FX WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL OFF LADDER AND FX WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL FROM LADDER AND SPRAINED WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| 47YOM CAUGHT SELF AND LADDER EXTENSION LADDER TENDON INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT WAS ON A LADDER PAINTING & FELL LANDING ONTO HER LT ARM INJURING LT WRIST. DX - LT DISTAL RADIAL HEAD FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders, Floors or flooring materials |
| 29YOM FELL OF 8 FT LADDER ONTO WOODEN FLOORFX R WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL OFF A LADDER ABOUT 5 FT ONTO HIS LT ARM C/O LT ELBOW & WRIST PAIN. DX - RADIAL HEAD & PISIFORM BONE FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| 41 Y/O M INJURED R WRIST WHEN FELL OFF LADDER AT HOME. DX; STRAIN R WRIST.. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT WAS CLEANING GLASS WHILE ON A LADDER, HE SLIPPED & HIS HAND WENT THROUGH THE GLASS SUSTAINING A WRIST LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL APPROX 7 FT OFF A LADDER SUSTAINING A WRIST FRACTURE, RT FOOT CONTUSION & MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/17/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT WAS CLIMBING A LADDER & SLIPPED OFF FALLING HITTING HER HEAD & INJURING LT WRIST & FOOT. DX - LT WRIST FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/02/2005 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| FRACTURE WRIST - PATIENT FELL 10 TO 12 FEET FROM LADDER AT HOME LANDING ON CEMENT SURFACE - TRANSFERRED |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/30/2005 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| EXTENSION PART OF LADDER SLIPPED DOWN ONTO HIS HAND CONTUSING WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2005 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER AND MISSED THE BOTTOM STEP DX. SPRAIN TO L WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2004 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders, Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| FELL FROM A LADDER APPROX 12 FEET,HIT L WRIST ON A PLANTER,FX L WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2003 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders, Handrails, railings or banisters |
| 46 Y/O M C/O WRIST AND RIB INJURY. PT FELL FROM LADDER AND HIT STAIR RA ILING. DX CHEST CONT AND LFT WRIST SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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