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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 881
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 07/09/2010 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 74 YOF *** LAST NIGHT FELL INTO A DITCH AT HOME. DX-FEMUR PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2009 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS WEEDWACKING AND IT BACKED UP AND HIT HIM ACROSS HIS KNEE DX: LAC TO UPPER LAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2009 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 6 YO MLACERATION THIGH JUMPING AROUND HIT LEG ON LAWN TRIMMER* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| FILLING *** WITH GAS WHILE SMOKING AND IT IGNITED AND BURNED THIGH, ADM IT TO BURN UNIT, NO FIRE DEPT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/22/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| BUMPED LEG ON ***; HEMATOMA, RIGHT UPPER LEG (INNER THIGH) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2007 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FEMUR FX-CAUGHT FOOT ON *** IN YARD-FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/09/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT CUT LEG WITH AN ELECTRIC TRIMMER AT HOME TODAY DX// LAC RIGHT THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FELL WHILE WEEDEATING FX FEMUR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/11/2006 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT CUT THIGH W/POWER HEDGE TRIMMER. DX: L THIGH LAC 1.5 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS USING *** AND NOTICED BLOOD ON LEG. DX: R THIGH PW. DX: R THIGH PW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HIT LEFT THIGH WITH CORD OF *** DAYS AGO. BRUISING OF THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2005 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered, Gasoline |
| FIXING ***, SPILLED GAS ON THIGH AT HOME. DX: RASH TO INNER THIGH 2ND TO CHEMICAL EXPOSURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| *** HIT PT IN THIGH. DX: L THIGH MULT ABR. DX: L THIGH MULT ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2004 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered, Fences or fence posts |
| PUNCTURE WOUND LEG - 76 YOM WAS USING A *** AND GOT A PIECE OF A RUSTY FENCE IMPALED INTO HIS LEFT THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered, Scissors |
| DAD WAS *** AND DAD BENT TO GRAB SCISSORS FROM PTS HAND AND *** CUT PTS LEFT LEG. D: TRAUMA LEFT THIGH / MULTIPLE ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PATIENT WAS *** WHEN A ROCK OR SOMETHING HIT HER IN THE THIGH, RESULTING IN BRUISE TO THIGH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| USING A *** AT HOME AT 1130 WHEN PIECE OF NYLON LINE SNAPPEDOFF & PUNCT URED RT THIGH, SHE REMOVED LINE. DX PUNCTURE WD RT THIGH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2001 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2001 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/14/2000 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/1999 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/1998 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/27/1998 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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