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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,080
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| BACK STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN CHIPPING ICE WITH A SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/22/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW 1 WK AGO, TO ER WITH UPPER BACK PAIN, STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| LUMBAR CONTUSION.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND FELL ON BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| STARTED HAVING LOW BACK PAIN WHILE SHOVELING SNOW STRAIN LOW BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| SHOVELING SNOW FOR HIS MOTHER AND HAS LOW BACK PAIN LOW BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SUST STRAIN TO LOWER LEG WHILE SHOVELING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| INJURIED BACK SHOVELING SNOW " BACK STRAIN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CUT FINGER ON A SHOVEL THAT BROKE WHILE SHOVELING SNOW " LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WAS INJURED WITH A SNOW SHOVEL/ LAC TO KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PARTIAL AMPUTATION-@ HOME-SHOVELING SNOW FROM SIDEWALK-CRUSHED FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| LAC CHIN; SLIPPED & POKED SELF WITH ICE SCRAPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2005 | Age: 21 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: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT WAS CUT W/WINDOW SCRAPER YESTERDAY. DX: R INDEX LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT USING SHOVEL TO REMOVE ICE AND SLIPPED AND FELL AND STRUCK LEFT WRIS T ON GROUND C/O PAIN LEFT WRIST FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| STRAIN LOW BACK - PATIENT COMPLAINS OF LUMBAR BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SHOVELING SNOW AND INJURED RT SHOULDER C/O PAIN RT SHOULDER STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2005 | Age: 23 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CONT R THIGH/23YOM FELL AT HOME SHOVELING SNOW. LANDED ON THE SHOVEL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2005 | 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: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW DEVELOPED LEFT SHOULDER PAIN LEFT SHOULDER SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| PT C/O LOW BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW DX: LOW BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2005 | Age: 21 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 |
| LOWER BACK PAIN X 1 WEEK, WORSE AFTER SHOVELING SNOW. ACUTE LUMBAR STRA IN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| FELL WHILE SHOVELING SNOW FEW DAYS AGO. LUMBAR MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| LOW BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| BACK STRAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| TRIPPED OVER SHOVEL ON WALKWAY AT SCHOOL, FELL ON RT KNEE, HEARD POP; R T KNEE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 22 YO MALE WAS SHOVELING SNOW TWO DAYS AGO - HAS CHEST PAIN CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| C/O BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW DX: LS STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| L SHOULDER PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW DX: L SHOULDER SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW YESTERDAY. DX-CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| PT INJURIED BACK WHILE SHOVELING SNOW, SUSTAINED " LUMBAR MS STRAIN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 24 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 |
| FOREHEAD LACERATION.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND FELL AND LACERATED FOREHE AD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| STRAINED BACK WHILE SHOVELING SNOW DX: LS STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| RT SHOULDER STRAIN.PT HAD SHOVELED SNOW AND INJURED SHOULDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| SHOVELING SNOW AND FELL ONTO CEMENT AND HIT NOSE CONTUSING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 19 YOF STRAINED SHOULDER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| STRAIN L SHOULDER, PT STS SHOVELING SNOW, C/O PAIN, TENDERNESS, NUMBNESS L FINGERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 23 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 |
| SHOVELING SNOW, HAS HAD BACK PAIN SINCE. ACUTE EXACERBATION CHRONIC BAC K PAIN & RT KNEE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| ACUTE MYOFASCIAL STRAIN LT SHOULDER, WAS SHOVELING SNOW TODAY PAIN LT SHOULDER, SCAPULA, UPPER LT CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| PT SPRAINED THE LOWER ABDOMEN AS A RESULT OF SNOW SHOVELLING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| CONT LS SPINE/20YOM WAS SHOVELING AND SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE AND STRUC K L LOWER BACK ON CAR MIRROR. C/O PAIN TO L LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| RAN INTO DOG SHOVELING SNOW & FELL ON ARM. BOTH BONE FX LT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| LACERATION FINGER - 19 YOM LACERATED HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER ON THE HAN DLE OF A SNOW SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| KNEE SPRAIN - 24 YOM WAS SHOVELING SNOW THIS AFTERNOON AND SLIPPED AND FELL INJURING HIS RIGHT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| STRAIN LOW BACK - PATIENT COMPLAINS OF LOW BACK PAIN RADIATING DOWN RIG HT LEG AFTER SHOVELING SNOW AT HOME LAST NIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| 16 YOM STRUCK IN FACE WITH SHOVEL LAC EYEBROW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PT SHOVELING SNOW AND INJURED LOWER BACK C/O PAIN LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| AFTER SHOVELING SNOW, PT DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools |
| PT SLIPPED WHILE SHOVELING SNOW, LANDED ON TWISTED HAND, SUSTAINED " WRIST SPRAIN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2005 | Age: 19 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 |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT HAD SHOVELED SNOW FIVE DAYS AGO AND BACK STILL HURTS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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