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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,316
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2009 | 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 Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| 85YOF, C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF WORSENING LBP WHILE LIFTING A HEAVY FLOWER P OT>>BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2009 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| 45 Y/O/M C/O LOWER BACK PAIN AFTER MOVING A PLANTER DX: LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT FELL INTO FLOWER POT AT HOME AND INJURED BUTTOCK DX: LACERATION RIGHT BUTTOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2009 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT LIFTED A PLANTER AND INJURED BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2009 | Age: 21 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: Greenhouse or gardening supplies, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT COMPLAINED OF BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING A HEAVY POT OFF THE FLOOR, LUMBAR SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2009 | 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 Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN: PICKING UP HEAVY CEMENT OR CONCRETE FLOWER POTS LAST NIGHT @ HOME, RT SIDED LOWER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2009 | Age: 57 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT WAS CARRYING WEIGHT OF 40 LBS AND FELL BACKWARDS OVER A FLOWER POT, COCCYX CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2009 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | 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: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| 44YOF BENT OVER TO PICK UP A POTTED PLANT AND FELT A PULL IN LOWER BACK STRAINED BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | 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: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING WAS LIFTING A POTTED PLANT AND FELT A PUL L IN LOWER BACK STRAINED BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2009 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| TRIPPED OVER FLOWER POT AT HOSPITAL. DX LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LEFT BUTTOCK HEMATOMA. PT FELL WHEN LIFTING A TERRA COTTA FLOWER POT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2009 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| 88YOM BENT OVER LIFTING HEAVY FLOWER POTS DEVELOPED PAIN IN LT HIP;HIP STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2009 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT BRINGING IN A POTTED PLANT FROM THE RAIN AND SLIPPED ON THE PAVEMEN T FRACTURED RIGHT HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/26/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| MOVED A LARGE POT LAST WEEK LOW BACK PAIN * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2009 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| 61 YOF, TRIPPED OVER FLOWER POT , FELL CONTUSION BUTTOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2009 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LOW BACK PAIN AFTER BENDING OVER TO PICK UP FLOWER POT LOW BACK PAIN * |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/22/2009 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | 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: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LUMBAR STRAIN-WAS LIFTING A FLOWER POT AND FELT A POP AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2009 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT TRIPPED OVER DOG FOOD AND FELL. HAD DOG FOOD AND A POTTED PLANT FALL ONTO HIP. DX:FEMORAL NECK FX. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/13/2009 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT LIFTED AN EMPTY CLAY POT 4 DAYS AGO. DX. ACUTE L SCIATICA LOWER BAC K. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2009 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT PICKED UP PLANTER AT HOME AND HURT BACK. DX. LOW BACK PAIN, STRAIN LUMBOSACRAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2009 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| FELL ON FRI. GETTING OUT OF FLOWER BED DX TENDON STRAIN L HIP * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2009 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PATIENT HAD A MECHANICAL TRIP & FALL LANDING AGAINST A BRICK PLANTER ON LEFT LEG. DX-LEFT HIP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2009 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | 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: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF HIP PAIN WHILE LIFTING A HEAVY FLOWER POT >>MS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2009 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT SUSTAINED HIP PROSTHESIS DISLOCATION WHEN SHE WAS DOING GARDENING* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2009 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LOW BACK INJURY FROM LIFTING 60 POUND GARDEN POT. DX-LEFT SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2009 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| WAS BENDING DOWN PLANTING FLOWERS AND STARTED HAVING BACK PAIN. DX: ACUTE LOW BACK MUSCLE STRAIN* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2009 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies, Containers |
| LOW BACK PAIN 2 DAS AFTER GARDENING & PACKING BOXES, FOR SEVERAL HRS. D X: ACUTE LOW BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2009 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT LIFTING FLOWER POTS WORKING IN FLOWER GARDEN HAS HIP PAIN AT HOME SPRAIN RT HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2009 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LEFT HIP STR. PT STRAINED HIP WHEN FALLING OVER A FLOWER POT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2009 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| GARDENING AND HURT BACK AT HOME. DX LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| PT STRAINED LOWER BACK WHEN PICKED UP A FLOWER POT ON THE PORCH AND HEARD A POP IN BACK AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2009 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LOW BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING A FLOWER POT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT WITH LOWER BACK PAIN AFTER REACHING INTO BACK OF TRUCK TO GET A POT AND THEN HAD SUDDEN ONSET OF PAIN. DX LOWER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2009 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT FELL ON A RUSTY METAL STAKE IN GARDEN, LACERATION TO BUTTOCKS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies, Bags |
| LOW BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING 50# BAG OF BARK DX: LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2009 | Age: 97 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: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| SUDDENLY DEVELOPED LBP WHILE LIFTING FLOWER POTS >>MS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT SUST LUMBAR STRAIN WHILE GARDENING# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2009 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN LIFTING A HEAVY FLOWER POT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2009 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT WAS PLANTING PLANTS AND LIFTED HEAVY FLOWER POTS STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2009 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT LIFTED A PLANTER BOX. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN, RADICULOPATHY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| DX SPRAIN LUMBOSACRAL: C/O LBP THAT STARTED AFTER LIFT'G FLOWER POT X 1WK AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2009 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| BACK STR. PT STRAINED FOOT WHEN LIFTING A FLOWER POT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2009 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT WALKING ON THE SIDEWALK AND FELL AGAINST A FLOWER POT SUSTAINED A HE MATOMA AND CONTUSION TO HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 75 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: Laceration |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| FELL ONTO PLANTER, WALKING TO BATHROOM DX: BUTTOCK LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/19/2009 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT TRIPPED ON A POT & LANDED ON L HIP. L FEMORAL NECK FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2009 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT WAS GARDENING ON SATURDAY AND LIFTED A FLOWER POT AND EXPERIENCED SE VERE PAIN IN LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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