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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,380
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2006 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RUNNING FELL ON HIS HAND LANDED ON A RAKE LACERATION RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2006 | Age: 40 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 |
| S/P LACERATION,WAS RAKING LEAVES YESTERDAY,RED AND SWOLLEN HAND CELLULITIS RT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2006 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CONTUSION TO HAND AFTER STRUCK BY A SHOVEL - HAPPENED 2 MONTHS AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2006 | Age: 32 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT USING A SHOVEL SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2006 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 77YOF HAND LAC SHOVEL FELL ON HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2006 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| GARDENING TOOL WENT THRU L HAND DX: THRU AND THRU LAC L HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2006 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| TRIPPED OVER OLD CULTIVATOR/ RT HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2006 | Age: 59 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 INJURED HAND WITH SHOVEL 2 WEEKS AGO NOW WOUND INFECTED DX// ABRASION LEFT HAND CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| OUTSIDE, BAREFOOTED, DOING SOME GARDENING, STEPPED ON A GARDEN RAKE '' FOOT PW" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT DX PUNCTURE WEB SPACE - S/P STRUCK WITH SHOVEL - SHARP PART ON RT HAND YESTERDAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2006 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT WAS WORKING IN YESTERDAY WITH A SHOVEL & SUSTAINED A HAND SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2006 | Age: 36 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RIGHT HAND CONTUSION FROM HAND BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN BUTT OF SHOVEL AND METAL PIECE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LEFT HAND CELLULITIS. PT WAS USING A SHOVEL AND GOT A SPLINTER IN HAND CAUSING AN INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2006 | Age: 82 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 |
| LAC R HAND ON 3-PRONG GARDEN TOOL LYING ON GROUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| PT WAS SHOVELING A HOLE TO PLANT A LEMON TREE AND NOW HAS BLISTERS TO H ANDS CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2006 | Age: 20 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 INJURED USING WOODEN SHOVEL; HAND ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2006 | Age: 66 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 |
| CUT HAND ON A DIRTY RAKE WHILE DOING YARD WORK. DX. R HAND LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2006 | Age: 35 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 RAKE AND CUT RT HAND WITH TEETH C/O APIN RT HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2006 | Age: 58 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 |
| 58 Y/O W/M RECEIVED BRUISED TO HAND WHEN HIT HAND ON CULTIVATOR WHILE GARDENING AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2006 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Alcohol |
| INTOXICATED, FELL ON RAKE/ LAC RT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2006 | Age: 56 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 |
| HAND CT-HIT A BROKEN GARDEN TOOL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RIGHT HAND BURN. PT HAD STARTED A BRUSH FIRE AND PICKED UP A RAKE THAT WAS LAYING TO CLOSE TO FIRE AND BURNED HIS HAND. NO FD, |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/07/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| HAND PAIN&SWELLING AFTER RAKING THE LAWN " LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 04/06/2006 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| C/O PT STATES INJURED HAND WHILE USING SHOVEL DX RT HAND TENDINITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2006 | Age: 42 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| JAMMED FINGERS WHILE SHOVELING CONTUSION/HAND SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS DIGGING IN HER GARDEN AND FELT A PULL IN RIGHT HAND STRAINED HAN D |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2006 | Age: 31 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 INJURY-HIT HAND W/A SPLITTING WEDGE-3 WEEK PTA-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2006 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT SUSTAINED CUT TO R HAND WHEN USING GARDENING HOE DX: RIGHT HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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