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Injuries Associated with
Sliding Glass Doors
CHIRPP Database, Ages 0-12
Number of records in the entire CHIRPP database as of September
2000 = 670,198
Number of records associated with sliding glass doors = 441
Age Distribution
* The number of sliding glass door related injuries per
10,000 within the age category indicated. This adjusts for uneven age distributions
in the CHIRPP database.
Body Region Injured*
* Up to three injuries can be recorded per case, only the
most serious injury is in this table.
Circumstances of the Injury
- Distribution of age and sex in all categories was fairly even. Males
were slightly higher than 50% from ages 1-10 and dropped to 40% for ages
11-12.
- The door closing on a body part accounted for nearly half the injuries
(44.7%), and tripping or falling into the door accounted for close to one-quarter
(22.4%) of the injuries.
- In almost three-quarters (72.6%) of the cases, contact with the frame
or track of the door was involved in the injury, either as
a direct cause or as a contributing factor.
- Nearly half (48.0%) of the injuries were to the hands and fingers and
one-third (33.0%) were to the head, face and neck.
- For 61 cases involving broken glass, 5 were admitted to hospital and
36 required medical follow-up after release from the emergency department.
This 8.2% for hospital admissions is higher than the CHIRPP database average
of 5.7%.
Compiled by Tracey Selst and Adèle Gélinas-Jones
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