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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 427
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/01/2005 | Age: 89 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: Towel racks or bars |
| 89 YR OLD FEMALE STRUCK HEAD ON TOWEL RACK LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 54 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: Towel racks or bars |
| PT WAS DRINKING IN A BAR, WENT TO THE BATHROOM SLIPPED, HIT HEAD ON TOW EL RACK AND FELL DOWN. DX: CHI, SCALP LAC, INTOXICATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2005 | Age: 99 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT C/O FALL.PT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON TOWEL BAR IN BATHROOM. DX LAC SCALP . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2005 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT SLIPPED AT HOME AND HIT HEAD ON METAL TOWEL HOLDER. D: HEAD AND LIP LACERATIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2005 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| PT FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING HEAD ON TOWEL RACK IN BATHROOM |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/11/2005 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| FELL IN BATHROON HIT HEAD ON TOWEL RACK DX- SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2005 | Age: 86 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: Hematoma |
| Product: Towel racks or bars |
| SCALP HEMATOMA: GOING TO BATHROOM TO CHANGE DEPEND, TRIPPED OVER TOWEL RACK AND HIT HEAD, INJURED BILATERAL ELBOWS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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