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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 865
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/26/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Ceilings and walls |
| PT GETTING OUT OF HER CAR AT HOME AND FELL AGAINST THE GARAGE WALL FRAC TURED LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Lawn mowers |
| 66YO WHITE FEMALE HIT R FOREARM ON METAL CAR PART-THEN AT HOME WHILE MOWING LAWN NOTICED ARM SWELLING, DX R FOREARM HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Fences or fence posts |
| PT RESTRAINED DRIVER FRONT IMPACT MVC AIR BAG DEPLOYED PT WENT TO AVIOD CAR AND HIT GAURD RAIL AND A FENCE DX./ RIGHT FOREARM CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Bicycles or accessories |
| PT INTOXICATED WHILE ON BIKE AND WAS STRUCK BY A CAR FRACTURED LEFT LOW ER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2008 | Age: 95 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Wheelchairs |
| AVULSION FOREARM - 95 YO FEMALE WAS A BELTED WHEELCHAIR PASSENGER IN LO W SPEED MVA - HAS SKIN TEAR ON LEFT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Bicycles or accessories |
| PT WAS RIDING HIS BICYCLE WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A CAR FELL TO GROUND AND S USTAINED ABRASIONS TO FOREARM AND ANKLE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Wheelchairs |
| IN MEDICAL ***-IN WHEELCHAIR,NOT RESTRAINED,PT FELL OUT WHEN DRIVER HIT BRAKES,DX MULT SKIN TEARS B/L FOREARM,ARTHRITIS,COPD 02 DEPENDENT, |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Nonelectric razors or shavers |
| FOREARM LAC-CUT ON A RAZOR BLADE WHILE WORKING ON A CAR-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WITH CONTUSION TO ARM FROM A WRENCH WHILE WORKING ON CAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Cigarette or pipe lighters |
| PT WAS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING CAR TO START WAS USING A LIGHTER TO SEE GAS CAUGHT FIRE AND EXPLODED. KNOCKED PT BACK. DX. CON. LOWER ARM NO FD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Bicycles or accessories |
| PATIENT WAS RIDING HIS BICYCLE AND WAS HIT BY A CAR, C/O RT SHOULDER RT DISTAL HUMERUS, RIGHT ELBOW PAIN. DX-FOREARM CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/15/2007 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Hoists, lifts, jacks or jack stands |
| CAR FELL OFF OF CAR JACK WHILE HE WAS WORKING ON IT. DX CONTUSION R FOR EARM# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2007 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Crutches, canes or walkers |
| WHILE WALKING IN ***S PARKING LOT, PT HIT BY CAR, FELL, ARM PAIN PT USI NG CANE AT THE TIME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Ladders |
| 52 YO M LACERATION TO FOREARM WASHING TRUCK AND FELL OFF LADDER WHEN LADDER FELL* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Hot water |
| PT TOOK RADIATOR CAP OFF IN CAR,WATER BLEW OUT,HOT WATER BURNED L ARM,DX L FOREARM BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2007 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Decorative yard equipment |
| PT DRIVING WITH ARM OUT WINDOW OF CAR WHEN ARM HIT A MAILBOX. D:DISTAL AND MID SHAFT RADIUS/ULNA FXS. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/23/2007 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Furniture |
| PT UNLOADING FURNITURE WHEN FELL OUT OF BED OF TRUCK. D: FOREARM LACERA TION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2007 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Trouble lights or extension work lights |
| WORKING ON CAR WITH LIGHT, HIT GASLINE, BURNED ARM DX 2ND & 3RD DEGREE CIRCUMFERENTIAL BURN LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 12/05/2006 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Bicycles or accessories |
| BICYCLIST STRUCK PARKED CAR & THEN WAS STRUCK BY TRACTOR TRAILER, ARM SWELLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2006 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Luggage |
| PT LIFTING SUITCASES ON TOP OF SHUTTLEBUS & TRIPPED,FELL STRUCK RT ARM FACE ON CEMET,NLOC,DX R DISTAL RADIUS/ULNA FX,FACIAL CONTUSION/LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2006 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Furniture |
| PATIENT HIT FOREARM ON UNDERSIDE OF A CAR DOOR TRYING TO MOVE FURNITURE DX-LACERATION RIGHT FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2006 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Motorized vehicles |
| PT WAS UNLOADING HIS MOTORIZED SCOOTER USED FOR MOBILITY ASSISTANCE LIT TLE RASCAL TYPE FOR INVALIDS TO GET AROUND FROM HIS CAR LACERATION ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2006 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Grocery or shopping carts |
| PT DX ARM STRAIN - S/P WHILE CROSSING THE STREET A MOVING CAR STRUCK THE SHOPPING CART SHE WAS PUSHING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Wheelchairs |
| PATIENT WAS GETTING OFF BUS, BUS WAS FOLDING OUTWARD, STOPPED & CAME BACK ON TOP OF HER RT ARM RESTING ON WHEELCHAIR. DX- FOREARM CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2006 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Motor vehicles or parts, Bicycles or accessories |
| 54 YOM WAS STRUCK BY A TRUCK WHILE RIDING A BICYCLE CAUSING FRACTURE TO LEFT LOWER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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