Accidents - Power tillers or cultivators - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,054
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	71
6-15 years old:	210
16-25 years old:	239
26-50 years old:	655
50+ years old:	876

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Lower Trunk:	457	Hand:	383
Lower Leg:	367	Knee:	131
Finger:	75	Shoulder:	73
Upper Trunk:	73	Wrist:	73
Toe:	73	Elbow:	71
Lower Arm:	71	Ankle:	71
Face:	71	Head:	15
Upper Arm:	15	Upper Leg:	15
All Of Body:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 11/24/2006	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PATIENT FELL ONTO A TILLER BLADE AT HOME AND CUT RIGHT LEG. 3 CM LACER ATON TO RIGHT LOWER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2006	Age: 84 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
USING *** AT HOME AND TWISTED KNEE KNEE SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2006	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
SPRAIN SHOULDER - PATIENT REPORTS ONSET OF LEFT SHOULDER PAIN WHEN USIN G A ROTORTILLER AT HOME - HEARD A POP IN SHOULDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/27/2006	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT WAS CUT ON *** BLADE. DX: L LEG LAC 2. 5CM. DX: L LEG LAC 2. 5CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2006	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PULLING CORD ON TILLER AND FELT POP IN ELBOW ELBOW STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/27/2006	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
WAS USING A ROOT DIGGER WHILE CLEANING IN YARD; CUT LOWER ARM. LACERATI ON, LEFT LOWER ARM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2006	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
CONTUSION KNEE - PATIENT REPORTS ROTERTILLING GARDEN YESTERDAY AND HAD A ROCK COME UP AND HIT HIS LEFT KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2006	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
BURNS PALM OF HAND WHEN TOUCHING HOT MUFFLER OF ROTARY TILLER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/04/2006	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT CUT LOWER LEG ON A ROTARY TILLER AT HOME, DX DEEP LACERATION TO RIGHT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/02/2006	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT INJURED LEG ON BLADE OF *** DX: 3CM LACERATION R LEG DX: 3CM LACERATION R LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/21/2006	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
CONTUSION L WRIST - BUMPED WRIST ON ***
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2006	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators, Motor vehicles or parts
BACK STRAIN: LIFTING *** OUT OF TRUCK AND LIFTING ANOTHER TILLER INTO T RUCK, FELT A "POP" - THORACIC BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/02/2006	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
USING A TILLER SPRAIN FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2006	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Power tillers or cultivators, Other unpowered garden tools
CARDIAC ARREST-DEATH.PT WAS ROTO TILLING AND RAKING YARD AND COLLAPSED ON GARAGE FLOOR.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 05/24/2006	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Arm		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
HUMERUS FX-@ HOME-TRIPPED ON ROTO-TILLER-FELL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2006	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
USING *** AT HOME AND STRUCK LEG WITH BLADE PUNCTURE WOUND LOWERLEG LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2006	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT SPRAINED HIS GROIN BY USING A TILLER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2006	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
18YOM ON *** MUFFLER 2DEGREE BURN L PALM AND HIP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2006	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
CAUGHT HAND IN A TILLER-TILLER WAS JAMMING HAND SLIPPED RIGHT HAND LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2006	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
CAUGHT FOOT IN TILLER/ FX ,LAC 1ST AND 2ND TOES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/2006	Age: 72 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: Power tillers or cultivators
L LEG LAC/72YOM LAC LEG ON DIRTY *** BLADE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2006	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	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: Power tillers or cultivators
PT RAN INTO A STAND STILL *** THAT WAS NOT ON, JUST STRUCK BLADE DX: LA C L LEG( TIBIA)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2006	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
STATES FELL WHEN TILLING THE YARD AT HOME, STATES FELL BACKWARDS ONTO CONCRETE, C/O COCCYX PAIN. CONTUSION TO COCYX. #
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2006	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
FELL ONTO TILLER LAC THIGH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/03/2006	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
26 YOM LUMBAR STRAIN USING ROTAR TILLER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2006	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT WAS USING A *** AND FELL ON IT HITTING HIS L EYE CONTUSION L EYE* CONTUSION L EYE*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/23/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
13YOF BURN ON ROTOTELLER PALMER SURFACE 1 TO 2 DEGREE THERMAL BURNS PA LM AND THIGH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/20/2006	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT SPRAINED AN ANKLE BY THE GARDEN TILLER FALLING FROM A RAMP AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/19/2006	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT LAC RT INDEX FINGER WHILE USING A ROTO - TILLER AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/15/2006	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT SMASHED HAND ON ***. DX: R HAND CONT. DX: R HAND CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2006	Age: 20 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
BURNED HAND WHEN TOUCHED HOT *** AT HOME. DX: 2ND DEGREE BURN HAND. AND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/29/2006	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PT INJURED LIFTING A TILLER; LUMBAR STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/14/2006	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: Concussion
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
23 YO USING TILLER FELL STRUCK HEAD CONCUSSION-BRIEF LOC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/06/2006	Age: 38 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: Power tillers or cultivators
LACERATION RT HAND: WORKING ON *** AT HOME, CUT RT HAND 3 CM 3 CM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2006	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Power tillers or cultivators
PATIENT HURT WHILE TRYING TO LIFT TILLOR DX: LOW BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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