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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 570
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2004 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT DX SCALP/EARLOBE LACERATION - S/P HIT WITH AN AX ON THE RT SIDE OF THE HEAD AT 1:00 PM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2004 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| SPLITTING WOOD, HIT SELF IN HEAD W/BLUNT END OF HATCHET AT 10 PM. DX. ABRA HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2004 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT AT HOME SWINGING AN AXE ACCIDENTLY HIT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD CLOSED HE AD INJURY WITH SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT & FRIEND WERE PLAYING AROUND, PT GOT HIT IN HEAD W/ AXE. LAC SCALP, CHI & ETOH INTOXICATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2004 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| SCALP LAC-IN WOODS-PULLING TREE LIMBS DOWN W/A HATCHET-HIT HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CUT TO TOP OF HEAD HIT SELF WHILE SWINGING AX DX: LACERATION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| SUSTAINED LACERATION TO TOP OF HEAD FROM AXE HANDLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2004 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CUT SCALP WITH AX CHOPPING WOOD SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| 45YOM AT HOME CUTTING WOOD HIT IN FOREHEAD BY AXE WHEN IT SLIPPED FROM HAND DX/ 2 IN LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2004 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT WAS CUTTING BRANCH W/AXE AND WAS STRUCK IN HEAD. DX: SCALP LAC/CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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