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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 620
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/15/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PATIENT SUSTAINED SPRAIN TO LUMBAR AFTER SHOVELING SNOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| FRACTURE HAND - 18 YOM WAS SHOVELING SNOW LAST NIGHT AND REINJURED RIGH T HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WAS HIT IN THE FACE WITH A SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SAYS WHILE HE WAS USING SHOVEL HE SPRAIN HIS LOWER TRUNK DX LOWER TRUNK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SUSTAINED FRACTURE TO HAND AFTER RUNNING AND FALLING ONTO A SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| ACUTE LUMBAR PAIN - HURT BACK WHILE SHOVELING DIRT 1 HIUR AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 16 YOFC BRUSHING SNOW OFF CAR, SLIPPED AND FELL ON EDGE OF DOOR OPENED BY FRIEND/LAC FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| L WRIST TENDONITIS/21YOW 1 HR AGO WHILE SHOVELING FELT A POP AND L WRIST STARTED TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PAIN IN LOWER BACK THIS EVENING WHILE SHOVELING SNOW. ACUTE LOWER BACKS TRAIN@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| KNEE LACERATION - LEFT KNEE STRUCK BY ICE SCRAPER WHEN HIT ANOTHER CAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SNOW SHOVELING FOR FRIEND SLIPPED ON ICE RT SIDE. NO FX. CONTUSION RT SHOULDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT STRUCK IN HEAD WITH SNOW SHOVEL HORSING AROUND, SCALP CONTUSION ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| STRAIN NECK - VICTIM WAS SHOVELING SNOW THIS MORNING, SLIPPED, FEL L AND HIT THE BACK OF HIS HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SLIPPED ON PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF NEWSPAPER BUILDING AT 1440, IT WAS JUST SHOVELED OF SNOW AND WAS SLIPPERY. DX SPRAIN RIGHT 2ND FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 23 Y/O FEMALE WS AT HOME WHEN SHE LACERATED HER RT GREAT TOE WITH A SNOWSHOVEL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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