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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,915
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/20/2010 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 11 YR M TRYING TO START LAWNMOWER AND STRING STARTER HIT HAND;DX CONTUS ED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2010 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 71 YOM INSECT BITE TO R HAND WHILE MOWING YARD DX: INSECT BITE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2010 | Age: 49 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: Power lawn mowers |
| 49 YOM HAD LAWNMOWER SET UP ON BLOCKS, FELL LANDED ON HAND. DX HAND CON TUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2010 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 2YOM TOUCHED THE MUFFLER ON A HOT LAWN MOWER SUSTAINED A THERMAL BURN T O HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2010 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 68YOM AT HOME PULL CORD ON LAWNMOWER SNAPPED BACK INJ L HAND/ DX LAC 1.5CM L HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2010 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LAWNMOWER EXPLODED WHILE CUTTING GRASS. 1ST DEGREE BURN, HAND. 54 YOM* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2010 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 49 YOF LAC TO L HAND STARTING LAWNMOWER DX: HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2010 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HAND LAC, 15 YOM WAS USING A POWERED LAWN MOWER AND CUT HAND ON BLADE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2010 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HAND BURN-67YOM MOWING THE YARD FOR A FRIEND AND BURNT HAND ON THE LAWN MOWER MUFFLER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2010 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| RT HAND BURN.13YOM TOUCHED LAWN MOWER MOTOR AND BURNED HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2010 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 49YOM TOUCHED THE ENGINE OF A LAWN MOWER AND SUSTAINED A THERMAL BURN T O RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2010 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 3 Y/O/M TOUCHED HOT LAWN MOWER EXHAUST PIPE AT HOME DX/ LEFT HAND BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2010 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 37 YOM, PULLING ROPE ON MOWER TO START, LACERATION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2010 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 41YOM SUSTAINED A RIGHT HAND LACERATION PULLING OUT GRASS FROM UNDER A LAWNMOWER WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 27 Y/O FEMALE STARTING LAWN MOWER & PULLED CORD CAME BACK & HIT TOP OF HER HAND DX: CONTUSION RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2010 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 21MOF AT GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, LAWN MOWER HAD JUST BEEN SHUT OFF AND PT PUT HAND ON MOWER ENGING; HAND BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2010 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 16MOF TOUCHED LAW MOWER EXHAUST AFTER TURNED OFF, 2 BLISTERS FORMED, NO PAIN DX: BURNS L HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 17YOM WAS USING GAS LAWNMOWER AND HIS HANDS CLINCHED AND COULD NOT RELEASE GRIP DX: MUSCULAR DIFFICULTIES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | 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: Power lawn mowers |
| 27 YO M WORKING ON LAWNMOWER AT HOME, PART FELL ON HAND. DX HAND CONTUS ION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2010 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Sprayers |
| 16YOM BURNED HAND ON HOT LAWN MOWER ENGINE, OR TRYING TO START POWER WA SHER, PUT HAND ON HOT POWER WASHER; HAND BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2010 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 83YOF-MC FX-HIT BY A ROCK THAT WAS THROWN FROM UNDER A LAWN MOWER-@ HOM E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| MINOR BURN OF RT HAND: 35YOF BURNS TO RT HAND AFTER BURNED ON A LAWN MOWER PIECE THAT FLEW OFF, RT HAND & TIP OF FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2010 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 45YOM ACCIDENTLY HIT HAND TRYING TO START POWER LAWN MOWER DX RT HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2010 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Other unpowered garden tools |
| 58YOM, USING INDUSTERIAL LAWN MOWER WHEN IT HIT A SHOVEL BURIED IN THE GROUND&THE MOWER PUSHED RT HAND INTO SIDE OF HOUSE>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2010 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Gasoline |
| 32 Y/O/M PUTTING GASOLINE IN LAWN MOWER AND IT CAUGHT ON FIRE BURNED HA ND DX/ LEFT HAND BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2010 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 30YOM CHANGING BLADES ON LAWN MOWER WHEN IT SLIPPED AND HIT HIS KNUCKLE DX- HAND LAC, TENDON LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2010 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 5 Y/O MALE PICKED UP A HOT LAWN MOWER MUFFLER THAT WAS ON GRASS AT HOME DX; 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURN TO RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2010 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 72YOM-HAND BURN-BURNED ON HOT LAWN MOWER EXHAUST PIPE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2010 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 3YOF 2ND DEGREE BURN HAND TOUCHED HOT ENGINE OF LAWN MOWER BURNING PALM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2010 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 15 YOM INJURED HAND , BURNING ON LAWN MOWER. DX-SUPERFICIAL 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2010 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 47YOM CUT HAND ON BLADE OF LAWN MOWER DX: HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 48 YOM INJURED HAND ON LAWN MOWER. DX-RIGHT HAND LACERATION 5 CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2010 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 22MOF BURNED (L) HAND ON LAWNMOWER + PAIN DX;# 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURN S (L) HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2010 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Fire extinguishers |
| 53YOM FOUR DAYS AGO STARTING LAWN MOWER ACCIDENTLY STRUCK FIRE EXTINGUISHER WITH RT HAND;CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2010 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 2YROLDMALE GRABBED HOT MUFFLER OF LAWN MOWER WITH HAND@HOME PTA DX 2NDD EGREE BURN TO HAND/FINGERS* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 42 YOM STUCK HIS HAND WHEN UNDER THE LAWN MOWER - LAC TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2010 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HAND LAC, 25 YOM INJURED HAND WHEN STARTING A LAWNMOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2010 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 62YOM BURNED HAND ON LAWNMOWER MUFFLER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2010 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Gasoline |
| 69YOM, MOWING THE LAWN, ACC SPILLED GASOLINE ON HAND WHICH CAUGH ON FIR E FROM THE HEAT OF MOWER>>BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 35YOM DROPPED LAWNMOWER ENGINE ON HAND DX: HAND INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 35YOM,ACC CUT HAND ON LAWN MOWER BLADE WHILE CLEANING, +BLD CTRL'D >>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2010 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 63 YOM INJURED HAND BY TOUCHING MUFFLER OF LAWN MOWER. DX-SECOND DEGREE BURN RIGHT PALM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2010 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 44 YOM WAS HIT IN HAND BY RETRACTING ELECTRIC CORD ON LAWN MOWER. DX: L HAND CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2010 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Chains |
| 16YOM, ACC GOT LT HAND CAUGHT ON A MOWING MACHINE VS CHAIN WHILE WORKIN G ON A ?FURM>>OPEN FX/DEGLOVING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2010 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 41 YOM LAC TO HAND FROM A LAWN MOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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