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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 578
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| SOMEONE WAS MOWING THE LAWN AND A ROCK WAS THROWN AND CHILD WAS HIT IN THE HEAD...SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LAWNMOWER BROUGHT INTO HOUSE, GASOLINE EXPOSURE, CAUSED ASTHMA AND HEA DACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK TOP OF HEAD ON A PIECE FROM A LAWN MOWER >>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Fences or fence posts |
| PT WAS MOWING LAWN, WIRE FROM FENCE FLEW UP AND STUCK IN SIDE OF HEAD, HE PULLED IT OUT DX: PUNCTURE WOUND TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| BENT OVER TO PICK UP STICK IN YARD,HIT IN HEAD WITH STICK THROWN FROM L AWNMOWER CLOSED HEAD INJURY * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PRESENTS WITH A CUT ONTO HEAD AFTER TRIPPING&FALLING WHILE MOWING HER L AWN HITITNG HEAD>> LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT TRYING TO PULL START HER LAWN MOWER AND LOST BALANCE AND FELL STRUCK HEAD SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LACERATION (TIMES TWO) TO FACE AND SCALP - FELL WHILE CUTTING GRASS - HIT A CINDER BLOCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| REPORTS BEING IN A CAR, OPENED THE WINDOW&A WOODEN STICK FLEW THRU THE WINDOW KICKED BY A LAWN MOWER&HITTING HEAD>>CLOSED HEAD INJUREY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOAD A MOWER OVER AN INCLINE AND IT FELL OVER WITH HIM, CUT TO HEAD 4 CM LACERATION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HIT BY PIECE OF WOOD THROWN BY LAWN MOWER HUSBAND WAS USING PREVIOUS NIGHT // CLOSED HEAD INJURY - FINGER INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| FELL OFF NON-RUNNING LAWNMOWER;DX LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LAWNMOWER ACCIDENT, +LOC. DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT FELL OFF OF A LAWN MOWER APPROX 2 FEET AND HIT HEAD. PT LETHARGIC. D X CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT CUT HEAD WHEN FELL OFF LAWNMOWER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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