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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 878
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/25/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 19 Y.O. W MALE W/BURN TO HAND. PT WAS REPAIRING A LAWN MOWER & THE ENGI NE BLEW APART @ HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| REINJURED SHOULDER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO START LAWN MOWER AT HOME. DX: S HOULDER SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| BURN HAND ON LAWN MOWER LEFT PALM 2ND DEGREE BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT TURNED OFF THE BLADE ON A POWER LAWN MOWER THOUGHT IT STOPPED SPINNI NG PUT HAND UNDERNEATH IT AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO L 5TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 19 YOM FELL ONTO LAWNMOWER MUFFLER CAUSING BURN TO UPPER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT SHARPENING THE BLADE OF A POWER LAWN MOWER AT HOME SUSTAINED A LACER ATION TO LEFT THIRD FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| WAS MOWING AT HOME WENT TO READJUST MOWER FELL ORWARD TOUCHING MUFFLER BURN TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| OBTAINED MULTIPLE BEE STINGS TO L EAR, L HAND AND R CALD WHILEWEED WACK ING. LOCAL REACTION $ |
| Disposition: Not recorded |
| Date: 08/17/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Footwear |
| PT USING A POWER LAWN MOWER WHILE WEAR SANDLES BLADE RAN OVER RIGHT FOO T SUSTAINED AN OPEN FRACTURE TO RIGHT GREAT TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/12/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| ATTEMPTING TO START LAWN MOWER WHEN SHE DEVELOPED SEVERE PAIN RT SHOULD ER. ACUTE RT SHOULDER SOFT TISSUE INJURY, R/O ROTATOR CUFF INJURY@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PW RT LATERAL ANKLE. OCCURRED WHILE MOWING- FB HIT ANKLE. DX; METAL FB RT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT ENCLOSED IN ROOM IN HOUSE WITH A GASOLINE LAWN MOWER, HAVING BR EATHING DIFFICULTY DUE TO GAS FUMES; HYPERVENTILATING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT ATTEMPTING TO START POWER LAWNMOWER BY PULLING CORD, STRAINED RT WRI ST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT CUT FINGER ON LAWNMOWER BLADE WHILE IT WAS RUNNING. DX-LACERATION RIGHT 2ND DIGIT WITH TENDON LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT WAS TRYING TO JUMP LAWNMOWER BATTERY OFF WITH TRUCK AND STATES GOT SHOCKED AND THROWN TO GROUND. DX; CONTUSION TO FOREARM, SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LAWN MOWER MUFFLER; RT HAND BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| DX RIGHT HAND BURN: TOUCHED HOT LAWM MOWER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| SEVERE LACERATIONS R FOOT - JUMPED OFF LAWNMOWER WHEN IT WAS TIPPING OV ER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LANDSCAPING AND FIXING LAWN MOWER CLEANING IT WHILE ITS STILL ON AND SL ASHED FINGER PARTIALLY AMPUTATING TWO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT CUTTING GRASS AT HOME, SOMETHING FLEW OUT HITTING HIM IN THE RT EYEF B EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| CUT RIGHT HAND ON POWER LAWN MOWER BLADELACERATION RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LAC TO RT LOWER LEG ON LAWN MOWER (OFF). DX: LAC RT LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 23 Y.O. W FEMALE W/MID BACK STRAIN. PT INJ WHILE PULLING ON A LAWN MOWE R STRING TO CRANK IT UP @ HOME. E927 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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