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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 882
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/10/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL APPROX 4 FT OFF A LADDER ONTO HIS BACK C/O LOW BACK PAIN DX - BACK CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| STRAIN LOW BACK - 23 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH LOW BACK PAIN - REPORTS HE W AS STARTLED WHEN ON LADDER PAINTING HOUSE AND TWISTED HIS LOW BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| FELL FROM AN EXTENSION LADDER LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/13/2006 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| FX LT FEMORAL NECK: HELPING HUSBAND, 2 STEPS UP ON LADDER, STEPPEDDOWN FROM LADDER,LADDER CAME WAY FROM WALL,FELL ON CONCRETE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2006 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL FROM A 5 FT LADDER ONTO THE GROUND C/O SEVERE BACK PAIN. DX - L1 - L2 COMPRESSION FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PT TRIPPED OVER LADDER, LANDING ON HIP DX: CONTUSION LEFT HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2006 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders, Fertilizers |
| CONTUSION LOWER BACK - 38 YOF FELL OFF AN EXTENSION LADDER ONTO MULCH, C/O LOWER BACK AND BILATERAL HIP PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2006 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| 27YOM FELL OFF 6-7 FT LADDER LUMBAR STRAIN AT NEIGHBORS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| CONTUSION HIP - PATIENT REPORTS HE FELL 16 FEET OFF OF LADDER YESTERDAY LANDING ON LEFT HIP - ABLE TO WALK AFTERWARD BUT HAS WORSENING PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| CONTUSION COCCYX - PATIENT FELL OFF LADDER AT HOME TODAY- FELL ABOUT 15 FEET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL OFF A LADDER LANDING ON HIS RT LOWER BACK SUSTAINING A BACK CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2006 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT FELL FROM LADDER UNTO BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2006 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT WAS LIFTING A HEAVY LADDER SEVERAL DAYS AGO & IS COMPLAINING IS LT HIP PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| FELL FROM 8 FT LADDER -FELL ON BUTTOCKS RIGHT BUTTOCK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders, Light bulbs |
| FELL FROM A LADDER ONTO BUTTOCKS WHILE CHANGING A LIGHT BULB COCCYX FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2006 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT HAD A 24 FT LADDER FALL ONTO HER ABDOMEN & LAND ON HER RT LEG. DX - ABDOMINAL WALL & RT KNEE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2006 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| PATIENT HAD A 15 FT FALL OFF A LADDER SUSTAINING A CLOSED HEAD INJURY & A MULTIPLE THORACIC & LUMBAR TRANSVERSE PROCESS FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/20/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Extension or straight ladders |
| ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN: 3 DAYS AGO SLIDING DOWN SIDE OF HOUSE ON EXTENSION LADDER, JUMPED OFF 12 FT, LOWER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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