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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,612
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| SISTER ACCIDENTALLY HIT PT'S HAND W/A SHOVEL. DX: R HAND CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 58 YOM CUT RIGHT HAND ON RAKE WHILE RAKING LEAVES LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2008 | Age: 14 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 STATES A RAKE FELL AND HIT HAND DX RT HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 73 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 |
| USING METAL RAKE AT HOME, HEAD OF RAKE FELL OFF INJURING HAND, HAS LACE RATION, HEMATOMA, CONTUSION HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2008 | Age: 64 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 |
| RAKING LEAVES GOT A BLISTER. DX CELLULITIS OF HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT INJ RT HAND SHOVELING DIRST YESTERDAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2008 | Age: 40 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 |
| PT STS WAS SHOVELING DIRT AT HOME WEEK AGO,DEVELOPED BLISTERS TO PALM R HAND, C/O PAIN - DX R HAND CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PIECE OF *** FROM SHOVEL GOT STUCK IN PT'S HAND 2 DAYS AGO.DX: FB R HA ND W/CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Clothing accessories |
| PT INJURED HAND WHILE SHOVELING AND WAS WEARING GLOVES. DX: RIGHT HAND INFECTION WITH LYMPHANGITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2008 | Age: 45 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, Motor vehicles or parts |
| UNLOADING A SHOVEL AND RAKE OFF HIS TRUCK AND CUT HIS HAND DX L HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| WAS DIGGING A HOLE WITH A SHOVEL; INJURED HAND. CONTUSION, RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT INJURED HAND WITH A RAKE AT HOME DX// RIGHT HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| 85 YO FEMALE'S HAND IS BRUISED FROM RAKING OUTSIDE CONTUSION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PT GOT HAND PUNCTURED BY RAKE PW HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT INJ HAND WHILE TILING GARDEN DX: METACARPAL FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FRACTURED HAND WHILE USING A KAISER BLADE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Martial arts |
| PT WAS CUT W/A SHOVEL DURING MARTIAL ARTS CLASS. DX: R HAND LAC 3.5 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | Age: 59 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 |
| LACERATED HAND ON A SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PUNCTURE WOUND HAND: WORKING IN GARDEN USING MATTOCK, STRIKING STICK WITH HIS THUMB, STICK WENT THROUGH THENAR EMINENCE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT DIGGING A HOLE WITH A PICK WHEN HIT A BOULDER. NOW WITH HAND/ARM NUM BNESS, TINGLING. D: NEUROPRAXIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2008 | Age: 45 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 |
| 45YOM WAS HELPING FRIEND PUT UP A GREENHOUSE,WAS MOVING GARDEN TOOLS AROUND,BUMPING AND BANGING HAND;FAND FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Stairs or steps |
| CONTUSION HAND - 24 YO FEMALE PRESENTS WITH INJURY TO LEFT HAND - WAS C LEARING STEPS OF ICE AND ACCIDENTLY HIT HAND WITH A PICKAXE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 29 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 |
| PT WAS BENDING A METAL GARDEN TOOL AND IT BROKE IN HAND DX: HAND AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PW HAND. PT FELL IN GARAGE AND LANDED ON A GARDENING TOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 67 Y/O M INJURED R HAND WHILE USING GARDEN TOOL AT HOME. DX; R HAND PUNCTURE WOUND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | 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, Alcohol |
| PT WAS DRINKING ALCOHOL WITH FRIENDS AND FELL OVER A SHOVEL SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 60 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 |
| TRIPPED OVER SHOVEL/HAND FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT INJURED HAND WHEN USING A WEDGE. DX: RIGHT 2ND MCP JOINT SWELLING WITH FOREIGN BODY, METALLIC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2008 | Age: 58 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: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT STS WORKING WITH A SHOVEL THURSDAY,C/O SWELLING TO R HAND DX CELLULITIS R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS USING RAKE AND GOT SPLINTER IN L HAND AT HOME. DX. FB L HAND, R EMOVED, SUTURED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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