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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,260
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/04/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PT C/O INJURY TO HEAD. PT SLIPPED AND HIT HEAD ON FAUCET. DX ABRASION R T FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2004 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| FINGER LAC-CUT ON FAUCET IN BATHROOM-@ LOCAL STORE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2004 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| 76 YO SHOWER HEAD FELL LAC FACE UNDER EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2004 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE-C/O PAIN AND REDNESS TO LEFT EYE SINCE SOMETHING FLEW IN IT WHILE CHANGING FAUCET. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2004 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PATIENT CUT HER RIGHT 3RD DIGIT ON THE FAUCET AT HOME. DX-3RD DIGIT LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2004 | Age: 66 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: Faucets or spigots |
| FELL AND STRUCK WATER SPIGOT INJURING LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PATIENT WAS WORKING ON A SHOWER HEAD AT HOME AND GOT SOMETHING IN RT. E YE. FOREIGN BODY, RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2004 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| SHOWER HEAD FELL OFF FAUCET AT GYM - HIGH WATER PRESSURE ON PERIORBITAL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2004 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PT LOST BALANCE, FELL OVER AND STRUCK FOREHEAD ON WATER SPIGOT. D:FOREH EAD ABRASION, THORACIC STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2004 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PATIENT TRIPPED OVER A WATER SPIGOT AND FELL; FRACTURE OF LEFT HIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/17/2004 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| HIT FACE ON THE SIDE OF A FAUCET FACIAL ABRASION CHEMICAL DERMATITIS FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2004 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PT HAD SHOWER HEAD FALL ON FOOT/ANKLE 2 MONTHS AGO. PAININ ANKLE. D: OSTEOMYELITIS, TIBIA. PT LEFT AMA. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/09/2004 | Age: 53 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: Faucets or spigots, Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT BENDING OVER TO TURN OFF WATER HOSE WHEN HIT HEAD ON METAL FAUCET. D :SCALP LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2004 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Faucets or spigots, Floors or flooring materials |
| 67 YOM WENT DOWN BASEMENT; TURNED OFF WATER FAUCET; BLACKED OUT AND FEL L TO FLOOR. SYNCOPE. |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 05/27/2004 | Age: 93 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: Faucets or spigots |
| HIT HEAD IN SHOWER NOZZLE. DX. MINOR HEAD TRAUMA, HEAD LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2004 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| WORKING IN YARD AND TURNED THE FAUCET WHILE TRYING TO GET UP DX SHOULD ER DISLOCATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2004 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| 83 YOF WATERING FLOWERS OUTDOORS, FELL, HIT ARM ON FAUCET CAUSING HEMAT OMA. XRAY NEG FOR FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PT TRIPPED ON WATER SPIGOT. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2004 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PT WORKING ON HOME FAUCET WHEN DEBRIS FELL INTO EYE. D: POSSIBLE FOREIG N BODY, EYE; EYE IRRITATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2004 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Faucets or spigots, Clothing irons |
| PT WAS CHECKING THE WATER MAIN AT HOME YESTERDAY WHEN THE SPIGOT FLEW O FF STRUCK FACE THEN OPENED A CLOSET AND AN IRON FELL STRUCK FACE- CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2004 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Faucets or spigots, Ceilings and walls |
| LACERATION HEAD - 77 YOM WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD BY A DISPLAY FAUCET THA T FELL FROM THE WALL AT A LOCAL HOME IMPROVEMENT STORE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2004 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PT WAS BENDING DOWN IN THE GARDEN AT HOME WHEN HE FELL FORWATRD STRIKIN G FACE ON THE WATER FAUCET LACERATION FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2004 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| PT LAC LT HAND ON FAUCET WHILE FIXING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2004 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Faucets or spigots |
| DOING PLUMBING WORK HIT WRIST ON A FAUCET LEFT WRIST SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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