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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 100
See also: Lethal accidents, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 07/21/2009 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PASSED OUT WHILE SPLITTING WOOD WITH AXE AT HOME. DX: HYPOVOLEMIA, HYP OGLYCEMIA, VASOVAGAL SYNDROME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| ALCOHOL INTOXICATION - 37 YOM C/O NOT FEELING GOOD, WAS CHOPPING WOOD W ITH AN AXE YESTERDAY AND DRINKING ABOUT PINT AND HALF OF RUM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2002 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CARDIAC ARREST-COLLAPESED -CHOPPING WOOD-EXPIRED IN ED |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
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