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Objective: Accidents at home, office, or outdoor environment\udare one of the leading cause of injury and death,\udespecially in children. The aim of this study is the evaluation\udof patients admitted to our hospital due to the falling\udon an object accidentally.\udMethods: This study retrospectively assessed the medical\udrecords of 135 patients who were accidentally injured\udby a heavy object that fell on them between 2012 and\ud2014. Age, sex, object type as the cause of incident, site\udand time of the incident, and the death cause were analyzed.\ud\udResults: Eighty-two (60.7%) patients were male and\ud53 (39.3%) were female and the mean age of the study\udpopulation was 18.8 (0-79) years. The patients were most\udcommonly from the pediatric age group (0-18 years old)\ud(n=78, 57.8%). When falling objects types are evaluated\udrespectively dropping on a television with 18.5% (25\udpatients), stone(s) with 15.6% (21 patients) and objects\udmade of iron with 11.1% (15 patients) shares first three\udplaces. The most common sites of the incident were\udhome (n=85, 62.9%). The incidents most commonly occurred\udin summer months (n=93, 68.9%).\udConclusion: In this study obtained data should be contributed\udto accident prevention programs especially for\udchildren