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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 471
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/22/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT SUST CONTUSION TO FACE WITH TOWEL RACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| INJURED LOWER BACK A WEEK AGO, TODAY WAS CLEANING BATHOOM, FELL AND HIT BACK ON TOWEL RACK DX: LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2003 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| 46 YO MALE HIT TOWEL RACK WITH FIST CONTUSION RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| HIT FOREHEAD ON TOWEL RACK DX FOREHEAD LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK DX: HEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| TOWEL BAR FELL ON FACE-LACERATION NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2003 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY: HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT STATES HE WAS DRINKING ALCOHOL AND WAS IN BATHROOM VOMITTING AND COME UP AND HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2003 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| 47 YO FEMALE FELL WHILE HOLDING ONTO TOWEL RACK CONTUSION LEFT ARM/HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT FELL AND HIT TOWEL RACK. DX: CHEST CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Towel racks or bars, Towels or cloths |
| LUMBAR STR/41YOF LEANED TOWARD TOWEL RING TO GET A TOWEL AND IN DOING S O INJURED BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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