Accidents - Fertilizers - Year 2007

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,676
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	332
6-15 years old:	483
16-25 years old:	30
26-50 years old:	381
50+ years old:	447

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Eyeball:	682	Face:	269
Foot:	199	Neck:	154
All Of Body:	91	Upper Leg:	80
Lower Trunk:	61	Head:	49
Lower Arm:	22	Ankle:	15
Knee:	15	Upper Trunk:	11
Wrist:	6	Internal:	5
Mouth:	5	Finger:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/19/2007	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Fertilizers
OUTSIDE DOING ?STH C FRERTILIZER, SLIPPED ON ICE, MANAGED TO GET UP&SLI PPED AGAIN >> HIP FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/14/2007	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Fertilizers
PT WITH ANKLE SPRAIN WHILE WALKING ON MULCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2007	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
PT AT DAY CARE THROWING MULCH AROUND WITH THE OTHER KIDS AND GOT A PIEC E OF THE MULCH IN RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2007	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
PT WAS PLAYING AT SCHOOL & FELL IN THE MULCH & A PC WENT INTO EYE DX: SMALL LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2007	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Fertilizers
PT USING LIQUID FERTILIZER AND GOT SOME IN FACE CHEMICAL BURNS TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/30/2007	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Fertilizers
14 YOM PLAYING ON PLAYGROUND FELL BACK ONTO MULCH LANDING ON LEFT FOREA RM SUSTAINING A FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Fertilizers, Other playground equipment
PT FELL OFF *** APPROX 6FT ONTO MULCH AT SCHOOL, SWELLING TO DISTAL FOR EARM, BRUISING TO FOREARM/THUMB; RADIUS/ULNA FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/12/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Fertilizers, Poles
PT WITH FACIAL LAC, TRIPPED ON MULCH AND HIT A METAL POLE AT SCHOOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/13/2007	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fertilizers
FB EYE WHILE PLAYING IN THE MULCH AT DAYCARE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2007	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Fertilizers
PT REPORTS HE WAS PLAYING ON PLAYGROUND W/MULT PRESENT AN STEPPED ON SO METHING. DX.L PW FOOT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/03/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fertilizers
PLAYING MULCH. DX FOREIGN BODY IN R EYE#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2007	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Fertilizers
MOM WAS SLEEPING WHEN WOKEN UP BY PT WITH CUT OVER EYE, WAS OUTSIDE PLA YING WITH 10 YO COUSIN NEAR MULCH PILE; EYEBROW LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2007	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers
PT OUTSIDE IN THE GARDEN WORKING WITH FERTILIZER AND RUBBED RIGHT EYE A ND NOTICED THAT THE PUPIL WAS DILATED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2007	Age: 23 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT MAY HAVE PUT MULCH OR DIRT IN NOSE AT DAYCARE; FB IN NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2007	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Fertilizers, Doors
WOOD SPLINTER FROM MULCH IN 3RD FINGER 7 DAYS AGO, MOM REMOVED, 4TH FIN GER SLAMMED IN SCREEN DOOR 3 DAYS AGO, NAIL DRAINAGE;LAC, PARONYCHIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2007	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Fertilizers
FERTILIZER TO L EYE DX; CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/29/2007	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Fertilizers
ACUTE SPRAINED FOOT: AT BIRTHDAY PARTY, JUMPED OVER MULCH WHILE PLAYING "FREEZE TAG"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2007	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Fertilizers, Plants, trees and shrubs
PT PUTTING FERTILIZER ON PLANTS AT HOME AND GOT SOME IN LEFT EYE CHEMIC AL BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2007	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers
39Y/O,F,BIL.UPPER LEG PAIN SINCE MULCHING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/2007	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers
28YOM WOKE UP WITH PAIN IN HIS NECK AND SHOULDER YESTERDAY,HE WAS LAYING MULCH DOWN THE OTHER DAY AT HOME; CERVICAL RADICULOPATHY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/2007	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Fertilizers, Bags
PT WITH LOWER BACK STRAIN FROM PICKING UP HEAVY BAG OF MULCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2007	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT HAD MULCH IN EYE AT SCHOOL, BURNING AND REDNESS; CORNEAL ABRASI ON
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2007	Age: 11 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT PLAYING OUTSIDE WHEN FELL ON MULCH, NOW WITH MULCH SPLINTER IN SIDE CHEST; FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2007	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Fertilizers
PT WITH LOWER BACK STRAIN AFTER LOADING MULCH IN HIS GARDEN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2007	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Fertilizers, Bags
56 YOM SUSTAINED CERVICAL STRAIN AFTER CARRYING (2) 50LB BAGS OF MULCH YESTERDAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/23/2007	Age: 59 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers, Bags
MUSC SPASM;PINCHED NERVE/59YOF W/DX OF ARTHRITIS CHANGES IN NECK START ED W/PAIN 1.5 WKS AGO.BEEN LIFTING FERTILIZER BAGS.PAIN DIDN'T GO AWAY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/23/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Fertilizers
PT WITH ALLERGIC REACTION, HIVES OVER BODY, TO MULCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fertilizers
PT RUNNING OUTSIDE, PIECE OF MULCH GOT INTO FOOT, DX; FB WITH REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2007	Age: 84 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT FELL FROM STANDING POSITION IN HER YARD AFTER SPREADING FERTILIZER. DX-RIGHT KNEE SPRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Fertilizers
PT FELL IN THE MULCH AT PLAYGROUND AT SCHOOL, HAS LACERATION TO INSIDE LOWER LIP & ABRASION TO JAW/CHIN; LACERATION, LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 05/02/2007	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
63 YOF STATES FOOT GOT STUCK ON CURB AT GROCERY STORE AND FELL FORWARD INTO MULCH PILE. PT HAS ABRASIONS TO FACE, NOSE, LEFT KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2007	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fertilizers
45YOM LAYING MULCH AND PLANTING,WHEN A PIECE BLEW INTO HIS EYE; ACUTE FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Fertilizers
PT WAS WALKING IN MULCH AND GRASS, HAS PUNCTURE WOUND TO FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2007	Age: 14 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: Poisoning
Product: Fertilizers
PT DEVELOPED ACUTE SOB, ASTHMA, AFTER EXPOSED TO GRASS FERTILIZER, STAR TED TO WHEEZE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/24/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT PUSHED AT SCHOOL, FELL CHEST FIRST INTO MULCH, HAS CHEST PAIN; CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/22/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
9 YOM GOT SOMETHING, POSSIBLY MULCH, IN HIS RIGHT EYE SUSTAINING A CORN EAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/16/2007	Age: 65 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Fertilizers
CONJUNCTIVITIS: DOING YARD WORK ON FRIDAY, TRIPPED, MULCH FLEW INTO FACE AND EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/14/2007	Age: 86 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Fertilizers
PT FELL WHILE PUTTING DOWN FERTILIZER. DX: CONCUSSION W/LOC, FACIAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/13/2007	Age: 18 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT PUSHED DOWN IN MULCH BY ANOTHER CHILD AT HOME; FOREHEAD LAC., A BRASION W/FB REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/11/2007	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
PT FELL IN MULCH AT SCHOOL AND NOW STATES THAT HE SEE'S BLURRY IN RIGHT EYE. D: CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2007	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fertilizers
PT THREW SOME WOOD CHIPS UP AND GOT SOME IN RIGHT EYE. D : FOREIGN BOD Y RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2007	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Fertilizers
OUTSIDE PLAYING FELL INTO MULCH, C/O L EYE SWELLING, NOSE BLEED, PUNCTURE TO CHEEK, DX; NASAL FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2007	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
8 YOF GOT MULCH INTO LEFT EYE SUSTAINING A CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT FELL ON WRIST AT HOME LAST NIGHT, STILL HAVING PAIN, ALSO HAS S MALL MULCH SPLINTER; WRIST SPRAIN, FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers
EXPOSED TO MULCH IN FLOWER BED YESTERDAY,FACIAL SWELLING ALLERGIC REACTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2007	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Fertilizers
PATIENT GOT FERTILIZER IN EYE MON., NOW GREEN DISCHARGE FROM EYES, EYES RED. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2007	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Fertilizers
SPREADING FERTILIZER IN YARD, BECAME SHORT OF BREATH DX EXERTIONAL ANGINA, LEFT AMA
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 02/06/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Fertilizers
PT PUT A PIECE OF RUBBER MULCH UP RIGHT NOSTRIL FB NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/11/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers
9 YOF FELL BACKWARDS ONTO A PILE OF WOOD CHIPS, DID HAVE RED MARK TO BA CK OF HEAD, LEFT BEFORE BEING SEEN BY PHYSICIAN
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 01/07/2007	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Fertilizers
PT WAS PICKING UP 75LB BAGS OF MULCH AND C/O LOWER BACK PAIN AFTERWARD. HX OF CHRONIC BACK PAIN. DX=LOW BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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