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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,317
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/12/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A RAKE DX: SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| WHILE PLAYING PT HIT WITH CORNER OF SHOVEL IN FOREHEAD. DX: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, LACERATION FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| ACCIDENTLY HIT ON HEAD BY YOUNGER BROTHER WHO WAS HOLDING A RAKE. ACUTE SCALP LAC & CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2004 | Age: 15 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX SCALP LACERATION: HIT IN HEAD WITH POST POUNDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT FELL INTO GLASS WHILE RAKING LEAVES AT HOME; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2004 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 17YOM AT HOME USING MANUEL POST HOLE DIGGER HIT SELF IN HEAD DX/2IN LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A SHOVEL CAUSING A EXTRA AXILA ABLEE D AND A FX SKULL |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 09/07/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH A GARDENING HOE BY ANOTHER CHILD AT HOME LACERATING HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LACERATION HEAD - PATIENT HIT HEAD ON A RAKE AT HOME JUST PRIOR TO ARRI VAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 6 YOM SITTING ON TOP OF CAR WITH HOE AND BROTHER PUSHED HIM, HE FELL DO WN ON HEAD-DX 1 CM LACERATION RT SIDE OF HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| BROTHER HIT PT. IN HEAD WITH A RAKE WHILE PLAYING AT HOME, NO LOC DX: SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT IN HEAD WITH SHOVEL BY YOUNGER BROTHER AT HOME. DX; SCALP LACERAT ION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| SCALP LAC-HIT SELF W/A HOE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2004 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT FELL ON RUSTY RAKE; CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| CHI - 41 YOF C/O HEADACHE AND NAUSEA SINCE 7/7 AFTER BEING STRUCK ON TH E HEAD BY A RAKE THAT FELL OFF A SHELF IN A STORE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2004 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HEMATOMA, MILD CHI, AT HOME IN YARD GETTING DIRT TO FILL UP HOLES, CEMENT BLOCK FELL,HIT SHOVEL,SHOVEL HANDLE END HIT PT IN HEAD, LOC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT HIT ON TOP OF HEAD WITH GARDEN HOE AT HOME; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2004 | Age: 42 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| SCALP LAC/42YOF AT HOME CUT SCALP WITH THE BACK SWING OF A PICK AX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2004 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| STRUCK BY RAKE - SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Ladders |
| PT PULLING ON RAKE WHEN IT KNOCKED LADDER IN GARAGE. LADDER HIT PT ON H EAD. D: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HIT BETWEEN THE EYES WITH GARDENING HOE YESTERDAY- NO LOC PT WITH H/A AND SWELLING TO FACE. DX CONCUSSION FACIAL TRAUMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2004 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT HIT ON HEAD WITH SHOVEL AT HOME; HEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2004 | Age: 7 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: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| USING SHOVEL & ACCIDENTLY HIT HEAD. HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT. WAS IN GRANDMA'S YARD WHEN SHE WAS HIT IN BACK OF HEAD BY HER BROTH WITH A GARDEN TOOL. DX: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2004 | Age: 5 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| SCALP LAC - STRUCK ON HEAD WITH A METAL LEAF RAKE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT. STATES HE WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL ( N/S IF INTENTIONAL) DX: NO DX ON CHART PT. LEFT PRIOR TO BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/13/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT AND HER SISTER WER PLAYING ON A SNOWBANK AND HIT HER IN THE B ACK OF THE HEAD WITH A HOE. DX: 2 CM LAC. RIGHT OCCIPITAL AREA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2004 | Age: 43 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LACERATED SCALP WITH PICK SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS HIT IN HEAD W/SHOVEL. DX: 2 CM SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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