Accidents - Go-carts - Year 2008 - Upper Trunk

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 773
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	80
6-15 years old:	226
16-25 years old:	156
26-50 years old:	178
50+ years old:	132

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/31/2008	Age: 16 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: Go-carts
WRECKED GO CART INTO TREE;DX CONTUSED CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2008	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Go-carts
53YO WHITE MALE CRASHED GO-CART C/O R RIB PAIN & SOB DX RIB FRACTURE 1
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/19/2008	Age: 17 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: Go-carts
PT RIDING IN GO CART AT FRIENDS HOUSE LAST NIGHT AND IT FLIPPED AND PTI NJURED CHEST PT TRANSF TO *** HOSPITAL DX// CHEST CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 10/13/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Go-carts, Motor vehicles or parts
CHEST WALL PAIN-GO-CART ACCIDENT-@ 45 MPH-HIT BY A TRUCK-HIT CHEST ON S TEERING WHEEL-NO HELMET
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/27/2008	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Go-carts
PT HAD GO CART ACCIDENT. DX: RIB FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/27/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
DRIVING GO CARTS A ND WAS HIT BY ANOTHER GO CART RIB PAIN..CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2008	Age: 17 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Go-carts
PT HAD PX AFTER GO KART RACING YESTERDAY. DX: THORACIC/LUMBAR STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2008	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
RACING GO-CARTS AND WAS HIT BY OTHER GO-CART AT ABOUT 50MPH HIT CHEST ON ENGINE DX- RIB CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Go-carts
HELMETED DRIVER OF A GO CART ACCIDENT GOING 35-45MPH.+LOC. R/O WHEN WHEEL BORKE. THROWN 20 FT. DX:BILATERAL PULMONARY CONTUSIONS, ADMIT
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/30/2008	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Go-carts
FX PNEUMOTHORX- GO CART
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 08/15/2008	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
CONTUS RIB CAGE, WAS DRIVING A GO CART AT *** AND HAD CRASH.WAS WEARIN G A CHEST PORTECTOR & HELMET, HAD NO SEATBELT ON CART.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/11/2008	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
PT HIT CHEST WHILE RACING GO CARTS 4 DAYS AGO. DX: CHEST CONT, CELLULITIS R ARM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/11/2008	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Go-carts
FX RIBS- GO CART
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 06/24/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
PT RAN OVER BY GO CART ABRASION UPPER TRUNK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2008	Age: 19 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Go-carts
FELL ROLLING A GO-CART AT HOME LT RIB FX *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2008	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Go-carts
PT WAS REAR ENDED WHILE RIDING GO KART AT TRACK. DX: THORACIC STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/10/2008	Age: 9 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
HIT A TREE WHILE DRIVING A GO-CART AT HOME CHEST CONTUSION *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/2008	Age: 8 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: Go-carts
CHILD WAS RIDING IN GO-CART AND RAN INTO BACK OF A CAR. DX. CONT CHEST .
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2008	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
PT RAN OVER BY GO CART CONTUSION CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2008	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Go-carts
THOR BACK STR. PT INJURED BACK WHEN WRECKING A GO-CART WITHOUT HELMET
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Go-carts
GO-CART RACING COLLIDED AT 45 MILES PER HOUR AT TALLADEGA TRACK RT CHEST CONTUSION *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Go-carts
GO-CART WRECK AT TALLADEGA SHORT TRACK FX T-12 *
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/09/2008	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Go-carts
FELL OFF GO-CART/CHEST WALL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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