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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,257
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2007 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CHI.PT HIT HEAD ON A SHOVEL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 37Y/O,M,STEPPED ON A RAKE, HIT HEAD, HEAD CONTUSION, TMJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2007 | Age: 9 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 |
| PT HIT W/SHOVEL WHILE RAKING LEAVES AT GRANDMOTHER'S. DX. CONT, LAC SC ALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2007 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| GOT HIT IN BACK OF HEAD WITH A HOE AND SUSTAINED A CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2007 | Age: 70 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 |
| FELL FORWARDS HITTING FACE WHILE RAKING THE LEAVES >> SDH/ORBITAL FX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/06/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HEAD LAC-STUCK W/A SHOVEL-NO DETAILS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2007 | Age: 66 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, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| 66 FELL WHILE USING A GARDEN TOOL DIGGING, TRIPPED OVER A ROOT, HIT HEA D ON TOOL'S HANDLE SUSTAINING A CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2007 | Age: 6 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 |
| SCALP LAC-ACCIDENTLY HIT SELF W/A SHOVEL WHILE SMASHING PUMPKINS-HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2007 | Age: 51 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| ACC STRUCK ONTO HEAD/FACE C A FALLEN SHOVELHANDLE, NOW C N&V >> CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2007 | Age: 7 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 |
| CHI, HIT WITH SHOVEL BY SISTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2007 | Age: 47 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 @ HOME STRAIGHTENING UP GARAGE, TRIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HEAD ON SHOVEL - CLOSED HEAD INJURY, NO LOC, CT:NORMAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2007 | Age: 2 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 |
| WALKING WITH RAKE AND TURNED RAKE UP AND HIT SELF IN HEAD AT HOME. DX: LACERATION OF SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2007 | Age: 18 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 |
| C/O PT STATES ACCIDENTLY HIT SELF IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2007 | Age: 23 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 STEPPED ON A RAKE AT HOME AND IT SPRUNG UP HITTING HEAD SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2007 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF THE SCALP BY FALLING BACKWARDS WHILE SHOVEL ING MUD FROM DRIVEWAY AT HOME AFTER FLOOD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2007 | Age: 2 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 |
| SIB CUT HEAD WITH HOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WITH HEAD LAC, HIT WITH A SHOVEL, UNKNOWN IF WORK RELATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2007 | Age: 31 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 |
| SCALP LAC-HIT W/A THROWN GARDEN SPADE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 4 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 |
| ACCIDENTLY HIT IN HEAD WITH SHOVEL BY COUSIN SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 9 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 |
| HIT BY SHOVEL LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 28 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 |
| CHI.PT HAD A SHOVEL FALL ON HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2007 | Age: 42 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 |
| SCALP LACERATION.PT HAD A GARDEN HOE HIT PT IN THE HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PLAYING WITH FRIENDS THREW SMALL RAKE HIT HEAD SMALL ABRASION ON HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2007 | Age: 2 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 |
| PATIENT HIT ON HEAD WITH A GARDEN HOE BY BROTHER; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT AT SCHOOL ON HEAD WITH SHOVEL. DX- MINOR HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2007 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Ceilings and walls |
| DIGGING WITH SHOVEL, FELL AGAINST WALL/SCALP CT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT HIT HEAD WITH RAKE AND DX WITH SCALP HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2007 | 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: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Sports and recreational activity |
| A WK AGO, SYNCOPED WHILE PLAYING SPORTS, TODAY SYNCOPED&FELL HITTING HE AD ON ROCKS WHILE RAKING LEAVES, +LOC/AMNESTIC " CHI/SYNCOPE'' |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/24/2007 | Age: 4 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 |
| MOTHER SWUNG AROUND W/SHOVEL ON SHOULDER, HIT PT ON HEAD. DX. CONT. L AC HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2007 | Age: 4 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 |
| 4 YOF STRUCK ON THE HEAD BY A FALLING 3-PRONGED RAKE SUSTAINING A LACER ATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2007 | Age: 87 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 |
| WAS RAKING LEAVES AND LOSE BALANCE AND FELL & HIT HEAD ON CONCRETE DX; BHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS HIT IN THE HEAD BY A SHOVEL, BY ACCIDENT, BY ANOTHER CHILD. NO LOC- SCALP LACERATION. DX; CHI, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2007 | Age: 6 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 |
| PT BUMPED INTO A GARDEN HOE AND LACERATED SCALP. DX: SCALP LACERATION, 1.5 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2007 | Age: 3 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 |
| CUT HEAD, HIT WITH GARDEN TOOL BY SIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/10/2007 | Age: 49 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 ACCIDENTLY WITH POST HOLE DIGGER LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2007 | Age: 49 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 |
| PATIENT STEPPED ON A RAKE, STRUCK RIGHT FOREHEAD WITH RAKE. DX-CHI. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2007 | Age: 5 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 |
| METAL SHOVEL VS. HEAD WHEN HE RAN INTO IT DX: LAC TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2007 | Age: 10 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 |
| STEPPED ON SHOVEL, HANDLE HIT FOREHEAD, EYE SWELLING, CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2007 | Age: 4 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 |
| CHI, FELL ON GARDEN TOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 10 YOM WAS IN FIGHT WITH ANOTHER CHILD AND HIT AGAINST SIDE OF HEAD WIT H A SHOVEL SUSTAINING A MINOR CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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