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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 827
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PATIENT WAS CLEANING YARD AND PUT LEAVES AND STICKS INTO THE MULCHER, A ND GOT TOO CLOSE. DX; AVULSION TO L LITTLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2005 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT USING A WOODCHIPPER AND AMPUTATED SEVERAL FINGERS TRANSFERRED |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 11/19/2005 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 61 YOM AVULSES FINGER IN A WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| FINGER THRUE WOOD CHIPPER " OPEN FX" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PATIENT HURT FINGER WITH A LEAF MULCHER WHILE ON JOBDX: FINGER FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 56 YOM GOT FIGNER CAUGHT IN CHIPPER AVULSION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2005 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 70 YOM CUT FINGER ON A SHREDDER # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| CRUSH INJURY TO FINGER AFTER USING WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME. CRUSH INJURY LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2005 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 4TH DIG LAC PT CUT FINGER ON A WOOD CHOPPER. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/22/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT USING A WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME WHEN A PIECE OF WOOD WENT INTO LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT USING A WOODCHIPPER AT HOME SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT WAS AT HOME TRYING TO TAKE SOME LEAVES OUT OF A SHREDDER WHEN HE AMP UTATED HIS RT 2ND FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2005 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| CONTUSION TESTICLES - PATIENT WAS TRUCK IN THE GROIN BY 5" DIAMETER TRE E THAT WAS BEING THROWN INTO CHIPPER - BILATERAL TESTCLE PAIN - TRANSFE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/23/2005 | Age: 20 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 Arm | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| LANDSCAPING AND STUCK ARM IN MULCHER AND AMPUTATED IT BELOW ELBOW; MED FLITE IN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/12/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT CUT FINGER WHILE USING WOODCHIPPER DX: PARTIAL FINGER AMPUTATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PATIENT WAS MULCHING LEAVES AT HOME WHEN FOREIGN BODY GOT INTO EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 01/04/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PULLED BACK LIFTING LOGS INTO A WOOD CHIPPER DX: LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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