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Database: Injuries reported by emergency rooms

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) is a sample of 100 hospital emergency rooms in the United States and its territories. Patient information is collected from NEISS hospitals for every emergency visit involving an injury associated with consumer products. Make no mistake: Many injuries found here are the result of accidents or carelessness and not the fault of the product itself. More than 374,000 injuries were reported in 2008, the latest available year for NEISS data.

Type a keyword (such as "ladder" or "toy" or "eye" or "shot") into the empty text box and click on Search. You can also search by sex, age and treatment date. Use Advanced Search to select a date range. Children under age 2 are shown by age in months and have a "2" prefix: 223 = 23 months.

Search for     Narrative Treatment date Age Sex Race   Contains Equals Starts with ... More than ... Less than ... Equal or more than ... Equal or less than ... Empty           Details found: 374260     Page 1 of 9357      Records Per Page: 40 20 30 50 100 500 Treatment date Age Sex Race Narrative View 12/31/2008 4 Male Black PW SWALLOWED A BATTERY View 12/31/2008 34 Male Not stated PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN STEPS INJ L ELBOW AND SHOUL DER/ DX More ... View 12/31/2008 15 Male White SHOULDER CT-INJURED IN WRESTLING-@ SCHOOL View 12/31/2008 47 Female White PT FELL DOWN 3 STAIRS LAST WEEK. DX: CHRONIC FROZEN SHOULDER, OLD CLAVICLE FX. View 12/31/2008 81 Female White 81 YOF FELL DOWN STEPS AT HOTEL FRACTURE HUMERUS View 12/31/2008 44 Female Black THE "D" ON THE *** SIGN FELL HIT PT ON THE SIDE KNOCKED TO GROUND CONTUSION CHES More ... View 12/31/2008 87 Female White 87YO WHITE FEMALE AT HOME W CHEST PX & ABD PX AFTER FELL 2 FLOOR WHILE TRIED 2 A More ... View 12/31/2008 8 Male Black TRIPPED AND FELL ONTO STAIRS DX: CONTUSION TO CHEST View 12/31/2008 80 Male White BACK CT-UNWITNESSED FALL TO FLOOR-@ HOME View 12/31/2008 53 Male Not stated PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF AN ELBOW BY FALLING FROM A LADDER AT HOME. View 12/31/2008 15 Female Black HORSING AROUND W/ A FRIEND IN THE SHED CUT ARM ON A MACHETTE LACERATION LEFT FOR More ... View 12/31/2008 67 Female White FELL @ HOME LAST NIGHT ON STEPS----(L) RADIUS FX View 12/31/2008 77 Male White FELL FROM CHAIR ONTO WRIST. DX: LE DISTAL RADIUS AND ULNA FX View 12/31/2008 10 Female Black PATIENT FELL WHILE ICE SKATING OR ROLLER SKATING WHEN PUSHED, FELL ON O UTSTRETC More ... View 12/31/2008 38 Male White PT CLEANING A KNIFE FROM A KNIFE COLLECTION AT HOME AND DROPPED IT ONTO LEFT LOW More ... View 12/31/2008 45 Male Black PT RIDING HIS BIKE AND FELL OFF FRACTURED LOWER ARM View 12/31/2008 22 Female Not stated DX R WRIST PAIN-CANNOT R/O SCAPHOID FX/HTN-QUESTIONABLE CONTROL: FELT SNAP IN WR More ... View 12/31/2008 15 Male White PLAYING BASKETBALL AND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO L HAND DX- WRIST FX View 12/31/2008 41 Male Not stated INTOXICATED AND FELL DOWN 6 STEPS ONTO WRIST FX IT View 12/31/2008 6 Female White PT RIDING BIKE AND FELL OFF STRAINED WRIST View 12/31/2008 86 Female Not stated ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE CHANNEL ON TV AND SLID ONTO BUTTOCKS STRAINING KNE E View 12/31/2008 31 Female Not stated C/O KNEE PAIN S/P SITTING ON THE FLOOR THEN STOOD UP WITH KNEE LOCKED I N BENT P More ... View 12/31/2008 55 Male Not stated C/O KNEE PAIN S/P SUSTAINED TWISTING INJUREY TO THE LOWER LEG AS A RESU LT OF SU More ... View 12/31/2008 53 Male Black PT DX UNSPECIFIED KNEE,LEG AND ANKLE INJURY - FELL STEPPING DOWN STAIRS AT HOME More ... View 12/31/2008 41 Female Not stated DX SPRAIN KNEE & LEG: DUR'G LESSONS FOR SKIING, FELL & BIND'G DIDN'T RELEASE: HE More ... View 12/31/2008 17 Male White SNOWMOBILING - HELMETED KNEE CONTUSION View 12/31/2008 21 Male Other PT WAS RIDING A BIKE AND FELL STRAINED KNEE View 12/31/2008 27 Female White PT TRIPPED AND FELL TO A TILE FLOOR AT THE STORE SUSTAINED A KNEE CONTU SION View 12/31/2008 13 Female White ICE SKATING AND TWISTED LEG AND KNEE. DX KNEE STRAIN View 12/31/2008 51 Female White 51 Y/O TRIPPED OVER SOME ROPES AT CHURCH, C/O WRIST PAIN. DX-FX TIBIA, SPRAIN WR More ... View 12/31/2008 10 Male White PT HAS CEREBRAL PALSY WAS DRIVING HIS "POWER CHAIR" AND RAN INTO A META L CABINE More ... View 12/31/2008 11 Female White PT TRIPPED; PT WAS WEARING SHOES DX: ANKLE SPRAIN View 12/31/2008 29 Male White SPRAIN TO RIGHT ANKLE - WALKING DOWN STEPS OUTSIDE HIS HOME, STEPPED IN HOLE, TW More ... View 12/31/2008 47 Female White RT ANKLE FX.PT WAS SNOW TUBING AND FELL. View 12/31/2008 32 Female Black ANKLE INJURY FROM TRIPPING DOWN STAIRS AND INVERTED LEFT ANKLE. DX-LEFT ANKLE DI More ... View 12/31/2008 5 Male White FELL HIT HEAD ON CORNER OFPIANO/ SCALP LAC View 12/31/2008 215 Female White FELL OFF THE BED, & HIT CORNER OF THE DRESSER, HITTING HEAD- NO LOC DX: CHI, SCA More ... View 12/31/2008 20 Male White LAC TO R TEMPORAL REGION, PT HAD TOO MUCH ETOH TODAY, PT FELL IN BASEMENT AT HOM More ... View 12/31/2008 63 Male White PT FELL & HIT HEAD ON FLOOR AT NURSING HOME DX: SUBARACHNOID HEMMORHAGE View 12/31/2008 32 Male White CHI.PT WAS SNOWBOARDING AND FELL AND HIT HEAD. [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ] Next :  Last

SOURCE: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, NEISS database
CREDIT: John Maines/Sun Sentinel