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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 480
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/12/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT CAUGHT FOOT ON A RUG AT HOME AND FELL HITTING HAND ON FLOOR DX: CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2007 | Age: 48 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: Rugs or carpets |
| PT TRIPPED ON CARPET AT STORE. DX: CONT L HAND/FACE/CHEST, ABR L KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| LEFT HAND STR. PT STRAINED HAND WHEN LIFTING UNLOADING A PIECE OF CARPE T |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2007 | Age: 44 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: Rugs or carpets |
| LEFT HAND CONTUSION.PT TRIPPED ON A RUG AND FELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2007 | Age: 48 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: Rugs or carpets |
| RT HAND CONTUSION: TRIPPED OVER CARPET AT HOME AND TRIED TO CATCH SELF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Rugs or carpets |
| PT SUSTAINED BURN TO HAND AFTER TRYING TO PUT OUT THE CARPET THAT CAUGHT FIRE. NOT STATED IF FIRE DEPT ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2007 | Age: 30 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: Rugs or carpets |
| FOREIGN BODY HAND: CLEANING DAUGHTER'S ROOM, RAN HAND OVER CARPET, PIECE OF GLASS STUCK IN HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Bleaches |
| HAD HANDS IN BLEACH FOR TWO HOURS CLEANING FRINGE ON ORIENTAL RUG AND B URNED THEM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Doors |
| PT TRIPPED ON RUG, FELL ON OUTSTRETCHED HAND AGAINST THE DOOR, SPRAIN OF LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2007 | Age: 39 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: Rugs or carpets |
| PT PLAYING WITH SON WHEN FELL ONTO CLOSED FIST ON CARPET. D: METACARPAL FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rugs or carpets, Doors |
| TRIPPED ON RUG AND HIT DOOR, LACS TO R HAND AND ARM DX: HAND AND FA LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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