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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,815
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/09/2004 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE RAKING LEAVES. DX: COSTAL CARTILAGE INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RAKING LEAVES LEFT CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/06/2004 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 50 YO MALE WAS RAKING LEAVES AND HAS RIB PAIN MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2004 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT. MOVED THINGS AROUND HOUSE AND RAKED LEAVES 3 DAYS AGO. DX. ACUTE M YOFASCIAL STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2004 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 78 YOF DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN RAKING LEAVES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HAD CHEST PX RAKING LEAVES. DX: CHEST PX R/O MI, CAD RISK FACTOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/23/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| AFTER RAKING LEAVES AT HOME HAD PRESSURE HEAVINESS ACUTE CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2004 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAINS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/18/2004 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT. SLIPPED AND FELL, HIT HER BACK AND BACK OF HEAD WHILE RAKING LEAVES AT NEIGHBOR'S YARD. DX. T11 STRAIN, DORSAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Ceilings and walls |
| 42 YOM RAKING LEAVES AT HOME, STEPPED INTO A HOLE AND FELL AGAINST A WA LL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 40 YO SHOVELING DIRT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/31/2004 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| THORACIC STRAIN.PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND BACK BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2004 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FELL ON RAKE - CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| WAS SHOVELING DIRT C/O CHEST PAIN DX: CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2004 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 82 Y/O M EXPERIENCED CHEST PAIN WHILE RAKING YARD AT HOME. DX; CHEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| MUSCULOSKELETAL BACK PAIN, HELPING SHOVEL MUD FROM FLOOD, PAIN BETWEEN SHOULDERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2004 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CHEST WALL PAIN. PT INJURED CHEST WHEN SHOVELING IN GARDEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2004 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| BACK & BUTTOCK PUNCTURE WOUNDS-FELL BACKWARDS ONTO A RUSTY HAY RAKE-@ H OME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| THORACIC PAIN-AFTER SHOVELING ASPHALT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HAS A BUMP ON LT. NIPPLE- HE HIT HIMSELF IN THE CHEST WITH A HANDLE OF A SHOVEL. DX: BRUISE TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2004 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT C/O SHARP IN CHEST. PT SHOVELING AND WORKING OUTSIDE ALL DAY. DX: CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 06/19/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Wheelbarrows or lawn carts |
| CHEST PAIN, MOVING DIRT WITH SHOVEL AND WHEELBARROW, HEART FLUTTERING CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/16/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT C/O CHEST PAIN SINCE LAST NIGHT STATES "WAS RAKING YARD" YESTERDAY A ND AND CHEST BEGAN HURTING. PT NOW INTOXICATED. DX: CHEST PAIN, ETOH |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/12/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT FELL DOWN SAID "LEGS GAVE OUT." PT STATES HE WAS SHOVELING DIRT AL SO CONSUMED 12 BEERS THEY FELL TO GROUND. DX: CHEST PAIN, INTOXICATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT C/O BACK PAIN. PT HURT BACK SHOVELING ROCKS. DX CHEST WALL PAIN CELL ULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2004 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT WITH A SHOVEL ( N/S IF ACCIDENTAL OR INTENTIONAL ) DX: RIB FX. / CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Tractors |
| WALKED INTO HANDLEBARS OF TRACTOR 1 WK AGO - TODAY FELT TEAR WHEN PICKED UP A SHOVEL - FRACTURE LEFT 7TH RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2004 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT REPORTS RAKING IN HIS YARD AND HAVING SUDDEN SHOOTING PAIN IN U PPER BACK - SEVERE UPPER BAACK PAIN BEGAN WHILE RAKING YARD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2004 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT STATES SHE WAS RAKING LEAVES YESTERDAY AND TODAY WOKE UP AND HAD ONSET OF UPPER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 20 YOM WAS RAKING IN THE YARD AND DEVELOPED CHEST TIGHTNESS. CHEST STRA IN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS RAKING LEAVES IN HIS YARD AT HOME DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN STRAINED CHEST MUSCLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CHEST WALL PAIN.PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND CHEST BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2004 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 67 YOM WAS WORKING OUTSIDE RAKING HIS YARD AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN. C HEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 02/16/2004 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RIB FRACTURE, GETTING SHOVEL OUT OF TRUCK AND STRUCK RIBS WHEN WENT TO JUMP ON BACK OF TRUCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2004 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DORSAL STRAIN - 39 YOM C/O UPPER BACK PAIN AFTER SWINGING A PICK AXE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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