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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,729
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/02/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| STATES WAS MOWING LAST WEEK AND A PIECE OF BONE HIT PT IN THE RT LOWER LEG. PUNCTURE WOUND TO RT LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| RUN OVER BY POWER MOWER UNSPECIFIED DX. LOWER LEG AMP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/16/2005 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Chairs |
| LARGE ROCK FROM LAWNMOWER HIT LT LEG AS SHE WAS SITTING IN CHAIR ON PORCH CONTUSION LT TIBIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2005 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| CUT BY FLYING GLASS WHILE MOWING LAWN LAC. LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2005 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| C/O PT STATES BURNED LEG ON LAWN MOWER DX RT LOWER LEG BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2005 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS MOWING HIS YARD AND FELL FRACTURED LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2005 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT CUTTING GRASS AT HOME, GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN LAWNMOWER AND BUSH, LAC LO WER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2005 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS MOWING HIS YARD WHEN SOMETHING FLEW OUT FROM UNDER LAWNMOWER AN D SHOT INTO LEFT LOWER LEG FOREIGN BODY LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/18/2005 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| MOWING THE LAWN, STRUCK SHIN ON ROCKS " LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT RUN OVER BY LAWN MOVER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| RT LOWER LEG CELLULITIS.PT WAS BURNED BY EXHAUST ON A LAWN MOWER AND LO WER LEG IS RED AND SWOLLEN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HIT BY ROCK THWORN BY LAWN MOWER, PAIN LLL DX: CONTUSION LLL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| MOWING LAWN HIT LEG LACERATION LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT SUSTAINED A PUNCTURE WOUND OF A LOWER LEG BY AN OBJECT PROPELLED FR OM A RUNNING LAWN MOWER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2005 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| MOWING LAWN, WIRE STUCK IN LEG DX: FB R LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2005 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| BURN LOWER LEG - PATIENT PRESENTS FROM HOME WITH A 7 X 4 CM BURN TO RIG HT LOWER LEG - REPORTS HIT LEG AGAINST HOT LAWN MOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| MOWING LAWN, STUNG BY BEES TO RT CALF.REDNESS&SWELLING " BEE STING" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2005 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wheelbarrows or lawn carts |
| 1% 3RD DEGREE L CALF BURN: CAUGHT FOOT UNDER WHEELBARROW, FELLBACKWARDS BURNING L CALF ON LAWN MOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2005 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| WOUND TO RT LOWER LEG: MOWING GRASS, STRUCK BY A ROCK THAT FLEWUP, HIT TING LEG 7-23-05 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS CUTTING HIS GRASS WHEN A PIECE OF METAL FLEW OUT FROM THE BOTTO M OF THE LAWN MOWER STRIKING HIM IN THE RIGHT LOWER LEG LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2005 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| WAS MOWING GRASS WITH LAWN MOWER; WIRE WAS LYING IN THE YARD, FLEW UP & HIT HER ON THE LOWER LEG WHICH BECAME EMBEDDED. FOREIGN BODY,LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS MOWING LAWN AND SOMETHING FLEW OUT FROM UNDER MOWER AND LACERATED PT'S LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT HIT IN LT LOWER LEG BY PIECE OF METAL THROWN FROM POWER LAWNMOWER, L AC LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT FELL WHILE MOWING LAWN AND INJURED LOWER LEG AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| PT WAS CUTTING LAWN WHEN A PIECE OF COPPER WIRE SHOT OUT FROM UNDER THE LAWNMOWER STRIKING LOWER LEG FOREIGN BODY LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS MOWING LAWN DOWN NEAR A CREEK AND WAS BITTEN ON LOWER LEG BY A SNAKE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 11 YO WM RECEIVED BURN TO RT LEG FROM LAWN MOWER MUFFLER 2ND DEGREE BURN RT LOWER EXT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| MOWING GRASS ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT SHIN LACERATION SHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2005 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| MOWING LAWN, FB FLEW FROM MOWER, CUT R LEG DX: 6 CM R LEG LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2005 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HIT W/ROCK RLL WHILE MOWING DX: LAC R LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| RIGHT LOWER LEG PAIN. PT INJURED LEG WHEN STARTING A LAWN MOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| L LEG PINNED BETWEEN MOWER & TRAILER ABRASION/CONTUSION LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2005 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT CUT LEG ON TOW BAR ON LAWNMOWER AT HOME. DX-LACERATION 1CMTIB/F IB WITH ABRASIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2005 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LOWER LEG LACERATION, HIT WITH ROCK FROM LAWNMOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT HAD A LAWN MOVER FALLEN ON LEG SUSTAINED " COMMUTED TIB/FIB FX" |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/25/2005 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS MOWING THE LAWN, WHEN LAWN MOWER STARTED TO ROLL BACK/PUSHED IT C LEG, HEARD POPPING IN THE CALF MS, SUSTAINED" MUSCLE RUPTURE" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2005 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS STRUCK BY ROCK WHILE MOWING LAWN 3 DAYS AGO.DX: R CALF ECCHYMOS IS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| WHILE MOWING PIECE OF WIRE THROWN HIT LEG DX PUNCTURE WOUND LOER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2005 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PW TO L LEG, FB, MOWING LAWN DX: PW L LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LOWER LEG, DAD WAS MOWING ON LAWNMOWER AND PIECE OFMETAL FLEW FROM UNDE R MOWER AND IMBEDED IN CHILDS LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/10/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT TOUCHED A HOT LAWN MOWER MUFFLER WITH LOWER LEG TWO DAYS AGO NOW THE AREA IS INFECTED CELLULITIS LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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