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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 802
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/01/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 47 Y/O M INJURED R EYE WHILE USING WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME. DX; R CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| WOOD FROM CHIPPER FLEW INTO EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2006 | Age: 43 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 |
| AMP RIGHT 2 AND 3 DIGITS. PT PUT HIS HAND INSIDE A CHOPPER SHREDDER TO UNPLUG IT WHEN HE CUT HIS FINGERS OFF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2006 | Age: 78 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 CAUGHT HAND IN RUNNING MULCHER AT HOME DX; AMPUTATION TO RIGHT INDEX FINGER AND RIGHT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| WOOD CHIPPER INJURED R INDEX FINGER AT NEIGHBOR'S TODAY. DX. CONT R IN DEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| FEEDING LOG INTO WOOD CHIPPER AND IT WAS EJECTED AND HIT HIS HEAD CLOSE D HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2006 | Age: 48 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: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| CUT FINGER ON A WOOD CHIPPER " LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2006 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PATIENT WAS USING A WOOD CHIPPER, FOREIGN BODY GOT IN EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION, FOREIGN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2006 | Age: 18 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 |
| CUT FINGER ON WOOD FROM CHIPPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2006 | Age: 53 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: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| LACERATION AND FRACTURE TO 2ND FINGER WHILE WORKING WITH A CHIPPED/ SHREDDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2006 | Age: 31 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: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| WORKING WITH WOOD CHIPPER AND CHIP HIT HAND OPEN FRACTURE FINGER/HAND L ACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2006 | Age: 34 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 |
| 34 YOM WAS WORKING AT HOME ON CHIPPER MOTOR CATCHING LEFT MIDDLE FINGER IN GEARS CAUSING SEVERE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| CONT DERM. PT BROKE OUT IN A RASH WHEN USING A CHIPPER WITHOUT A SHIRT ON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2006 | Age: 43 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 CAUGHT IN WOOD CHIPPER FX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A WOOD CHIPPPER/LACERATED RT INDEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 28 YO MALE LOST CONTROL OF WOOD CHIPPER AND CUT LEG OPEN FRACTURE TIBIA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/15/2006 | Age: 62 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 |
| 62 YOM LACERATED RIGHT INDEX FINGER WHILE USING A WOOD CHIPPER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2006 | Age: 19 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: Amputation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| CUT FINGER ON A WOOD CHIPPER " FINGER AMPUTATION" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT. PUTTING SMALL TREE IN WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME AND END OF TREE HIT PT. BEHIND R KNEE. DX. DISLOC. R PATELLA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2006 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| CONTUSED FINGER IN WOOD CHIPPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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