Accidents - Other unpowered garden tools - Year 2007 - Lower Leg

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,381
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	249
16-25 years old:	210
26-50 years old:	396
50+ years old:	524

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/19/2007	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
28 YO MALE SHOVELED DIRT LEG PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/16/2007	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
FELL RAKING LEAVES FX TIBIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/18/2007	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
WAS RAKING LEAVES ON A HILL SIDE; SLIPPED AND FELL TO HROUND. FRACTURE, LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/28/2007	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
LAC BACK OF CALF ON A RAKE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/28/2007	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PUNCTURE LEG - 43 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH PUNCTURE TO LEFT SHIN - ACCIDEN TALLY STABBED SELF WITH SCYTHE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Farm/ranch		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT AT A FARM PLAYING BARN WHEN A PITCHFORK FELL WOUNDING LEG/ DX PUNCTURE WOUND R LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/16/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT DIGGING A TRENCH FOR MOTHER USING SHOVEL TWISTED ANKLE FX LT FIBULA DISTAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2007	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT C/O CUT LEG WITH GARDEN EQUIPMENT. DX LAC LFT LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2007	Age: 19 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
L LOWER LEG CONT/19YOF WHILE AT FRIENDS HOUSE, FRIEND DECIDED TO HIT HE R IN THE LEG WITH A SHOVEL AT 9PM. MORE PAINFUL TODAY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/27/2007	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
56 Y/O M INJURED L LOWER LEG WHILE USING PITCHFORK AT HOME. DX; PUNCTURE WOUND L LOWER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2007	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
LACERATION LLE, HIT WITH A SICKLE. DX: 3 CM LACERATION LEFT LATERAL CAL F
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2007	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Plants, trees and shrubs
USING SICKLE @ HOME, BOUCNED BACK OFF TREE HITTING LEG " LAC''
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT INJURED LEG WITH A PITCHFORK AT HOME TODAY DX// CONTUSION ABRASION RIGH LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2007	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS AT HOME USING A SLITTING WEDGE, LACERATED RT LWR LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2007	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CUT LEG ON SHOVEL/ LAC LT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2007	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
7 YO M LACERATION TO LOWER LEG MOM HIT WITH MINING PICK WHEN SHE WAS WORKING IN THE YARD AND CHILD SLIPPED DOWN HILL IN FRONT OF HER*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/23/2007	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RIGHT LOWER LEG LAC, PT STEPPED ON A RAKE INJURING LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/22/2007	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RLL LAC, STEPPED ON RAKE DX; LEG LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/19/2007	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
ACCIDENTALLY HIT LEG WITH A SHOVEL AT HOME. PUNCTURE WOUND, LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2007	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT CUT LOWER LEG WHEN USING A SHOVEL AND WHILE STICKING IT IN THE GROUND THE HANDLE BROKE AND CUT LEG AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2007	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
15 YOM JUMPED ONTO A TRAILER LANDING ON A PITCH FORK THAT PUNCTURED THE FRONT OF HIS LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2007	Age: 66 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
66YOF PUNCTURE WOUND OVER LEG GARDEN SNIPS AT CEMETARY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/23/2007	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SHIN LAC-HIT W/A SHOVEL WHILE GARDENING-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2007	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
WAS SHOVELING IN YARD, C/O L LEG SWELLING, PAIN, REDNESS, DX; LEG EDEMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2007	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Farm/ranch		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
FELL ON PITCHFORK/PW LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/09/2007	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT C/O PAIN AND SWELLING RIGHT LOWER LEG, STEPPED ON A RAKE LAST WEEK. DX-CONTUSION LOWER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2007	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT RECEIVED LACERATION TO LOWER LEG WHEN WAS HIT BY SHOVEL BY CLASSMATE AT SCHOOL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2007	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DIGGING DITCH WITH PICK AXE & HIT LOWER LEG P.W. LT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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