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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 882
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2005 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| INJURED USING POST HOLE DIGGER NEAR APTS. THEY OWN, RIGHT HAND CRUSH INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2005 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LEFT HAND LACERATION.PT LACERATED HAND ON A RAKE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2005 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RAKING LEAVES IN YARD AT HOME DEVELOPED BLISTER ON L HAND AND SLIVER FR OM RAKE HANDLE DX FB REMOVAL L PALM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| STABBED L HAND W/ PITCHFORK PUNCTURE WOUND HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/19/2005 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HAND BLISTER-WHILE RAKING FRONT YARD-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| COMPLEX HAND LAC-@ HOME-CUT ON A SICKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/06/2005 | 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS DOING YARD WORK AND HIT HAND ON HANDLE OF A SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HAS HAND NUMBNESS AFTER USING SHOVEL ALL DAY IN YARD AT HOME. DX: LP TMS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT C/O RIGHT HAND PAIN AFTER SHOVELING TODAY DX: RIGHT HAND PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DOG BITE TO HAND FROM AGRESSIVE DOG THAT NEIGHBOR HAD TO HIT OFF WITH A SHOVEL LACERATION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT STATES INJURING HAND ON A SHOVEL DX:HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS CUT ON BROKEN METAL HANDLED SHOVEL. DX: R HAND LAC 1 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2005 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| WORKING IN GARDEN USING HAND TROWEL WITHOUT GLOVES AND DEVELOPED A BLIS TER CELLULITIS PALM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2005 | Age: 80 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| AT HOME DIGGING UP DANDILIONS WITH HAND TOOL ABRASION TO HAND W RED ST REAK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS CUT ON PITCH FORK. DX: L HAND LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2005 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX RIGHT HAND CONTUSION: HIT HAND WITH PITCHFORK AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2005 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT HIT DOG WITH SHOVEL AT HOME AND DOG BIT HIM ON HAND; OPEN HAND FX., HAND LAC./BITE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/12/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| SHOVELING DOG "POOP", POSS. HAND SPLINTER DX: HAND CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT USING A SHOVEL AT HOME SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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