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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 937
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/20/2004 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT TRIMMING TREES AT HOME SUSTAINED OIPEN WOUNDS TO BOTH HANDS THREE DA YS AGO GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2004 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT WAS CUT W/PRUNING SHEARS. DX: L HAND LAC 1 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PRUNING PLANTS COMPLEX HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| CUT R OUTER ASPECT OF HAND WITH HEDGE TRIMMER. DX- 2 CM R HAND LACERATI ON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| CUT HAND WITH HEDGE CLIPPERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT CUT LT HAND/2ND DIGIT ON GRASS SHEARS, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT PRUNING PALM TREES WHEN GOT POSSIBLE FOREIGN BODY IN HAND. PUNCTURE WOUND NOTED. D:HAND CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2004 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| HAND LAC-CUT ON HEDGECUTTER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2004 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 15 YR OLD MALE CUT HAND WITH LAWN CLIPPERS LAC HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LACERATON HAND FROM HEDGE TRIMMERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT WAS TRIMMING BUSHES AND A PC OF TIN STUCK OUT OF BUSHES AND LACERATED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2004 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LACERATION HAND - 60 YOM LACERATED HIS RIGHT HAND ON A PIECE OF PRUNING EQUIPMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2004 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LACERATION HAND - 46 YOM LACERATED THE PALM OF HIS LEFT HAND ON PRUNING SHEARS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2004 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 78 YO F INJURED HAND ON HEDGE TRIMMER LAC HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2004 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| CUT HAND WITH PRUNING SCISSORS WHILE TRIMMING BUSHES DX: L HAND LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2004 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| CUT HAND ON HEDGE TRIMMERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| HAND LAC-CUT WHILE PRUNING TREES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| DX PALM LACERATION: CUT HAND WITH GARDEN SHEARS AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT HAD RED, SWOLLEN HAND. SCRATCHES ON ARMS FROM ROSE BUSH WHILE PRUNIN G THIS WEEKEND. D: HAND CELLULITIS, POSSIBLE SPOROTRICHOSIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2004 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LEFT HAND LAC, PT INJURED HAND ON ELECTRIC HEDGE CLIPPERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2004 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| WEEDING ROOTS, WEEDER HANDLE CAME OFF HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2004 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT SUSTAINED PUNCTURE WOUND TO HAND WHILE PRUNING WITH BUSH TRIMMER. D: PUNCTURE WOUND, THENAR EMINENCE, HAND LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT WAS CUT W/PRUNING SHEARS. DX: L HAND LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2004 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| DX LEFT HAND LACERATION: CUT HAND WITH PRUNING SHEARS AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| CUT HAND ON A CLIPPER WHILE MOVING IT DX: R HAND LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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