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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,862
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 66 YO MALE DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE SHOVELING SNOW ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CHEST PAIN. PT DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHEN SHOVELING SNOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/22/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | 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: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW 1 WK AGO, TO ER WITH UPPER BACK PAIN, STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/22/2005 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW C/O UPPER BACK PAIN...MUSCULAR STRAIN TO UPPER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2005 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| C/O CHEST PAIN, HAD SHOVELED TODAY/ ANGINA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2005 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CHEST PAIN-STARTED WHILE SHOVELING SNOW-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2005 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW AND HAS ARM AND CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 12/09/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| LEFT RIB CONTUSION.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND FELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2005 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| THORACIC STRAIN-SINCE SHOVELING SNOW-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2005 | 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: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT PRESENTED W/ CHEST PAIN. PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW EARLIER-DX CHEST PAIN 2ND TO SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/28/2005 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW EARLIER IN DAY, REPORTS TO ER WITH PAIN FROM NECK INTO CHEST DX:CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2005 | Age: 55 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: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT C/O CHEST PAIN. STARTED LEFT SCAPULA, WENT UP LEFT SIDE OF NECK AND DOWN LEFT ARM AFTER HE SHOVELLED SNOW-DX CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2005 | 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: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SPRAINED HIS CHEST FROM SHOVELING SNOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2005 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| STRAIN UPPER BACK - PATIENT REPORTS ONSET OF UPPER BACK PAIN WHEN SHOVE LING SNOW - THEN WENT TO CHURCH AND FELL IN PARKING LOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2005 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT DX CHEST WALL PAIN - C/O PAIN TO THE CHEST WHILE SHOVELING SNOW LAST NIGHT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SUDDENLY DEVELOPED CP WHILE SHOVELING SNOW SUSTAINED " CHEST PAIN" |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/08/2005 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| C/O WORSENING RT SCAPULA PAIN WITH MOVEMENT, FIRST STARTED 3 WEEKS AGO WHILE SHOVELING/ THORACIC STRAIN, MUSCLE SPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAINS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/28/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WITH CHEST PAINS AFTER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/26/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| LEFT RIB STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND INJURED RIBS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2005 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW AND FELL ONTO BACK AND FX A RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2005 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WAS SHOVELING THE SNOW LAST PM, TODAY, C/O: CHEST WALL PAIN SUSTAINE D" CHEST WALL MS STRAIN' ED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| C/ O CHEST PAIN WHILE SHOVELING SNOW DX: CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2005 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT C/O OF CHEST PAIN/DISCOMFORT, WAS SHOVELING SNOW ALL DAY,SUSTAINED " CHEST /MUSCLES PAIN" |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/21/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| C/O SEVERE LT CHEST PAIN, BEGAN WHILE SHOVELING SNOW/ CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2005 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CONTUS R RIBS; WAS PUSHING SNOW, RAN HANDLE OF SHOVEL INTO RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 22 YO MALE WAS SHOVELING SNOW TWO DAYS AGO - HAS CHEST PAIN CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| C/O CHEST PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW DX: CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2005 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| FELT SHARP PAIN WHILE SHOVELING THORACIC STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT C/O CHEST PAIN FROMSHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2005 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT INJURIED CHEST WALL MS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SHOVEL SNOW, SUSTAINED " CHEST WALL MS STRAIN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT DEVELOPED SUDDEN CHEST PAIN WHILE SHOVELING SNOW, SUSTAINED " CHEST WALL MS STRAIN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2005 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN SHOVELING SNOW AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 34 YO MALE SHOVELED SNOW AND POPED RIGHT RIB AREA RIB MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW YESTERDAY C/O UPPER BACK PAIN DX: DORSAL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW YESTERDAY. DX-CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SUSTAINED CHEST PAINS SINCE SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW YESTERDAY & TODAY & HAS HAD INCREASED HEART RATE. ATYPIC AL CHEST PAIN, R/O MI |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW & HAD PAIN IN UPPER BACK. ACUTE EXACERBATION CHRONIC BAC K PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT COLLAPSED WHILE SHOVELING SNOW AT HOME, SUSTAINED " CARDIAC ARREST" |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 01/19/2005 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CHEST PAIN BEGAN WHEN SHOVELING SNOW. CHEST PAIN, R/O MI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2005 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW AND DEVELOPED RIB PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2005 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| RT CHEST WALL CONTUSION AFTER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2005 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CHEST PAIN WHILE SHOVELING SNOW--RESULTING IN UNSTABLE ANGINA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| LIFTING SNOW TODAY & DEVELOPED CHEST WALL PAIN. ACUTE STRAIN CHEST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| FELL SHOVELING WALK YESTERDAY @ HOME. ACUTE RIB CT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 18 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: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| AFTER SHOVELING SNOW, PT DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/02/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CHEST WALL STRAIN.PT HAD SHOVELED SNOW AND CHEST HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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