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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,247
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/03/2003 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| BLUNT INJ TO HEAD;ABRAS TO CHEST/25YOF STS AN OVERHEAD LIGHT FIXTURE FE LL ON HER HEAD 2 DAYS AGO AT HOME. C/O FEELING OF GLASS IN HER SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2003 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT DX SCALP LACERATION - AFTER LOW CHANDELIER STRUCK ON TOP OF HEAD AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LAC TO HEAD WHEN STRUCK ON LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Beds or bedframes |
| PATIENT STOOD UP ON BED AND HIT HEAD ON CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE AT HOME; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2003 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT STATES LIGHT FIXTURE CAME LOOSE AND FELL DIRECTLY ONTO TOP OF HER HEAD AT A FRIENDS HOUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | 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: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN A LIGHT FIXTURE GLOBE FELL AND HIT HER ON THE HEAD CAUSING A CLOSED HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2003 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT WAS SITTING IN RESTAURANT WHEN GLASS GLOBE LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEA D |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2003 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD DX. SCALP CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2003 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 13YOBM W/CHI AND LACER. AFTER LIGHT FIXTURE FELL FROM CEILING AT HOME A ND HIT PATIENT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 9YOBM W/CHI AFTER A LIGHT FIXTURE FELL FROM CEILING ON HEAD AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2003 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| GLASS DOME OF HANGING LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD SUPERFICIAL LACERATION TO SCALP / HAND ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2003 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| WALKED INTO EXAM LIGHT POLE DX ABRASION RIGHT FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| CONCUSSION-NO LOC-HIT HEAD ON LOW HANGING CHANDELIER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2003 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PATIENT JUMPED TO TURN LIGHT ON, HIT HEAD ON LIGHT GLASS COVER AT HOME, OR COVER FELL ON PATIENT'S HEAD; SCALP LAC., FOREHEAD LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2003 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Stairs or steps |
| MOM CARRYING BOX SPRING THAT HIT GLASS LIGHT COVERING, FELL & HIT BANIS TER & BROKE HITTING PT WHO WAS CRAWLING UP STEPS AT HOME; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 34 YOF HAD LIGHT FIXTURE FALL ON HEAD HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2003 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| LIGHT FIXTURE FELL FROM CEILING AND HIT BABY OF HEAD. DX: 1 CM LACERA TION TO SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| 24 YO BF MINOR HEAD INJURY STRUCK IN HEAD BY LIGHT FIXTURE WHILE CHANGI NG FLORESCENT LIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2003 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| HIT HEAD ON CHANDELIER DX: SCALP LAC. / HEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT GOT HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A LIGHT FIXTURE SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO S CALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HIT HEAD ON A LIGHT FIXTURE DX: LAC RT TEMPLE REGION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Beds or bedframes |
| JUMPING ON BED, HIT OVERHEAD LIGHT DX. SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures, Ceilings and walls |
| GLASS LIGHT FIXTURE FELL FROM CEILING BROKE AND FELL ON HEAD. DX. MINOR HEAD TRAUMA, 2 CM FRONTAL SCALP LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE FELL ON HEAD DX. SCALP HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT HIT HEAD ON CHANDELIER THIS MORNING. LATER, HIT CURB AT 5MPH WHILE O N MOTORCYCLE. FELL ONTO FACE. D:CLOSED HEAD INJURY, FACE LAC, SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2003 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| PT STATES SHE WAS STUCK IN HEAD WITH A LAMP GLOBE THAT FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| SCALP CT-AT HOME-HIT CORNER OF A LIGHT FIXTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2003 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Electric chandeliers, hanging lamps or other attached light fixtures |
| WORKING IN GARAGE AT HOME WHEN LIGHT FIXTURE FELL STRIKING HIS HEAD CAU SING LAC DX 1.5 CM SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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