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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 990
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/10/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Washing machines |
| 40 YO M TRYING TO CARRY WASHING MACHINE, DROPPED ON HAND. DX 2ND METACA RPAL FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| CONTUSION TO HAND WHEN DROPPED WASHING MACHINE ON HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Washing machines |
| RT HAND LAC-CUT ON SHARP PIECE ON WASHING MACHINE-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| WASHER LID FELL ON HAND YESTERDAY A.M. SWELLING CONTINUES. DX: (R) HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Washing machines |
| PT STATES WAS LIFTING A WASHING MACHINE AND CUT HAND ON A SHARP EDGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| RT HAND PAIN. STATES REINJURED HAND TODAY. SHUT WASHER LID ON HAND TODAY. DX; HAND CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Washing machines |
| CAUGHT HAND IN WRINGER WASHER/ FX RT 2ND METACARPAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Washing machines |
| WASHER LID FELL ON HAND AT HOME CAUSING HEMATOMA TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| 15 YOF HIT WASHING MACHINE CONTUSION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Washing machines, Laundry soaps or detergents |
| PATIENT WAS AT HOME REACHING FOR THE LAUNDRY DETERGENT AND KNOCKED THE WASHING MACHINE LID DOWN HITTING HER HAND. DX-RT. HAND SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2002 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Washing machines |
| =65YOF CUT HAND WHILE TRYING TO STOP WASHER AT HOME DX/LAC HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Washing machines |
| PT PUT RIGHT HAND INTO A WRINGER WASHING MACHINE AT AUNT'S HOUSE. DX: CRUSHING RIGHT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines, Stairs or steps |
| CARRYING A WASHER UP OUTSIDE STEPS AT HOME, WASHER SLIPPED & PINNED RIGHT HAND AGAINST CONCRETE STEP. DX ABRASION RIGHT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Washing machines, Clothing |
| PT DROPPED LID OF WASHER ON HAND WHILE WASHING CLOTHES, HAND PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| HAND CAUGHT IN WASHING MACHINE CONTUSION LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2002 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Washing machines |
| WHEN MADE CLOTH IN THE WASHING MACHINE RECEIVED TRAUMA ON RT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Washing machines |
| WASHING MACHINE FELL ON HAND WHILE MOVING IT SPRAIN RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Washing machines |
| HAND GOT STUCK IN WASHING MACHINE AT RELATIVES HOUSE 1 WEEK AGO, POST OP PAIN. DX: POST OP PAIN, CHRONIC PAIN, HX OF SELF INFLICTED INJURIES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| 22 Y.O. W MALE W/HAND CONTUSION. PT STS HE DROPPED A WASHING MACHINE ON HIS HAND. E9179 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| PUNCHED WASHING MACHINE YESTERDAY. NOW PAIN TO RIGHT HAND 4TH & 5TH FINGERS, SWELLING. DX: CONTUSION RIGHT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| INJURY TO MID RT FINGER. WASHING MACHINE LID FELL ON FINGER. DX; CONT R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| RT HAND CONTUSION.PT WAS LOADING A WASH MACHINE WHILE RUNNING AND INJUR ED HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Washing machines, Clothes dryers |
| PT INJURED HAND MOVING WASHER AND DRYER, R HAND SWELLING ERYTHEMA SECON DARY TO CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Washing machines |
| PT SUST. CONT TO HAND ON WASHING MACHINE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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