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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 265
See also: Lethal and non-lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products.
Lethal Accidents - Body Parts:
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| 70 YO M CARDIAC ARREST PT TRIPPED AND FELL DOWN 12 STEPS AT FAMILY GATHERING* |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| PT FELL DOWN FLIGHT OF STEPS. DX; HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/08/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| ICH. PT FEL DOWN A FLIGHT OF STEPS. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| 71 YO F FOUND AT BOTTOM OF STEPS BLEEDING FROM NECK IN CARDIAC ARREST PT HAS HISTORY OF NECK CANCER POSSIBLE BLEED TO DEATH* |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| FELL DOWN CONCRETE STEPS AT HOME, CONFUSED, DETERIORATED. DX S/P FALL, TYPE 2 AORTIC DISSECTION, CARDIAC ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 03/28/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Stairs or steps |
| H/O HEART DISEASE, STAUST POST ?CARDIAC ARREST, THEN FELL DOWN STAIRS, FOUND BY WIFE PULSLESS, PRONOUNCED ON ARRIVAL >> DOA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
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