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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 337
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/06/2009 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Other power garden tools |
| USING A POST HOLE DIGGER AND WAS TAKING IT OFF OF ITS TRACTORE WHEN IT STRUCKE HER ON SIDE OF HEAD DX- CONCUSSION LAC JAW SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2009 | Age: 18 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 power garden tools |
| PT USING AN AUTOMATIC POST DRIVER WHEN LOST CONTROL OF IT AND IT REBOUN DED STRIKING PT ON HEAD. FELL BACK & HIT HEAD. DX:CHI, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2009 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other power garden tools |
| PT WAS HIT IN THE FACE WITH A METAL POST HOLE DRIVER, DX. PUNCTURE WOUN D TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2007 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other power garden tools |
| SCALP LAC-HIT HEAD ON POST HOLE POUNDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/31/2006 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other power garden tools |
| HAND HELD POST HOLE DIGGER - JAMMED BAR INTO GROUND, PULLED BACK, HIT S ELF IN HEAD. DX; LACERATION SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other power garden tools, Poles |
| PATIENT WAS DRIVING A POST IN THE GROUND, POST DRIVER BOUNCED UP AND HIT HIM ON THE HEAD. DX-LACERATION SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2002 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Other power garden tools, Tables |
| 79 Y/O W/F TRIPPED OVER GARDEN PLOW HIT HEAD ON WASH TABLE SUSTAIN ING A CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 10/16/1999 | Age: 38 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: Laceration |
| Product: Other power garden tools |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/1998 | Age: 6 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 power garden tools |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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