Accidents - Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches - 16-25 years old - Year 2007

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,295
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Finger:	563	Hand:	508
Face:	420	Elbow:	157
Mouth:	150	Head:	91
Lower Arm:	86	Eyeball:	85
Upper Leg:	70	Toe:	70
Wrist:	61	Ankle:	15
Lower Trunk:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/23/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
CUT ARM ON PLIERS AT HOME # LACERATION ARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
LACERATION FINGER - 17 YO MALE CUT RIGHT INDEX FINGER ON A VISE GRIP - LWBS
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 11/30/2007	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT WAS DOING SOME REPAIR WORK ON HIS JET SKI AND THE WRENCH SLIPPED STR AINED ELBOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/04/2007	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT DROPPED WRENCH ON RIGHT HAND, RIGHT HAND FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/19/2007	Age: 23 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
23Y/O,M,INJURED L HAND WITH A WRENCH AT HOME, LAC. L HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF A FINGER FROM A WRENCH AT SCHOOL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/27/2007	Age: 22 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
DX RIGHT INDEX FINGER LACERATION : INJURED WITH WRENCH AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/24/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts
PT RECEIVED LAC TO R EYE LID FROM A PAIR OF PLIERS WHILE WORKING ON A TRUCK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/17/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
DROPPED PIPE WRENCH ON FOOT DX TOE FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2007	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT WAS HIT W/WRENCH WHILE WORKING ON CAR. DX: FOREHEAD LAC 2.5 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/30/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
SKIN TEAR L THUMB/23YOM CUT L THUMB ON METAL AT HOME AFTER WRENCH SLIPP ED.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/29/2007	Age: 25 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Hammers
PATIENT USING WRENCH & HAMMER-MISSED WRENCH HIT THUMB WITH HAMMER- LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Ceilings and walls
USING WRENCH, SLIPPED & HIT HAND ON WALL DX HAND FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
AT HOME PT STRUCK WITH PLIERS TO SIDE OF HEAD & FACE ACCIDENTLY DX SCALP TRAUMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/03/2007	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
FACIAL LAC-YOUNG CHILD HIT PT W/A NEEDLE NOSE PLIERS-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/17/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
LACERATION FACE STRIKING SELF WITH A PAIR OF PLIERS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE REMOVING BOLT, / LAC RT 2ND DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/11/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
17 YOM WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT WITH A RATCHET AND HIT SELF RIGHT EYEBROW SUSTAINING A LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2007	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT WORKING ON HIS TRUCK WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED SUSTAINED A CONTUSION T O ELBOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT STS USING RATCHET WRENCH,C/O REDNESS & SWELLING TO R ELBOW AREA DX ELBOW STRAIN & CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2007	Age: 20 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: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PINCHED FINGER C A WRENCH , ?MECH " LAC''
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/21/2007	Age: 19 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WRENCH FELL ON R ANKLE DX; ANKLE CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HAND PAIN AFTER USING TORQUE WRENCH FX HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/04/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Lawn mowers
PT WAS WORKING ON LAWN MOWER BLADES WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING PT TO C UT RIGHT #5 FINGER ON BLADE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/03/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
RT MIDDLE FINGER LACERATION.PT WAS USING A WRENCH ON A CAR AND WRENCH S LIPPED AND LACERATED FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2007	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts
FX R DISTAL METACARPAL; WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE WOKRING ON TRUCK @ HOME, H AND HIT FLYWHEEL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/26/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT WAS USING WIRE CUTTERS AND WAS PULLIN & HIT SELF IN FACE WITH THE TOOL, DX; SUPERIFICAL LACERATION TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HIT BY WRENCH LAC HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/19/2007	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT STATES HIT R EYE W/A PLIER, BRUISING AND SWELLING NOTED. DX. CORNEA L ABRA R EYE, CONT R EYE LID.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
23 YO INJURED ARM ON WRENCH LAC FOREARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WAS DOING WORK AT HOME WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIT NOSE LAC TO NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
THUMB LAC, PT CUT THUMB WHEN USING AN ALLEN WRENCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/13/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
FB RT EYE.PT WAS WORKING UNDER A CAR WITH A WRENCH AND SOMETHING WENT I NTO EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2007	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WRENCH SLIPPED,STRUCK CAR PART HAND CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
CHI.PT WAS USING A WRENCH AND IT FELL AND HIT PT IN HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/04/2007	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: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Doors
PT HIT SELF IN EYE WITH A RUSTY WRENCH WHILE FIXING DOOR, EYE INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2007	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT'S WRENCH SLIPPED. DX: L HAND LAC 2.5 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2007	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
INJURED ON A WRENCH AND NAIL AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/21/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves
17 YOM WAS STRUCK IN HEAD WHEN WRENCH FELL OFF SHELF - LAC TO HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/25/2007	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Clothes dryers
TURNED ON DRYER W/ PLIERS -DROPPED PLIERS ON WRIST NO LOC NO NUMBNESS LACERATION LLEFT WRIST ELECTRIC SHOCK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/06/2007	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: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HIT WITH WRENCH [ACCIDENT] FACIAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
DX RIGHT SCLERAL ABRASION: USING WRENCH AT HOME, IT FELL AND HIT EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2007	Age: 18 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT IS PREGNANT TWO DAYS AGO SOMEONE THREW A MONKEY WRENCH AD ACCIDENRLY STRUCK HER IN THE LOWER ABDOMEN CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/27/2007	Age: 19 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
CUT TO LIP HIT SELF WITH WRENCH DX: LIP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/23/2007	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
THROWING PLIERS WITH FRIEND AND HIT ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD. DX SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/23/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
USING A WRENCH AND FRACTURED THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/22/2007	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HAND CONTUSION: IN SHOP CLASS AT SCHOOL, WRENCH SLIPPED, HIT 2ND KNUCKLE OFF METAL ENGINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2007	Age: 21 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PAIN TO L SIDE OF FACE, HIT SELF IN FACE W/WRENCH DX: JAW CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/03/2007	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Dental Injury
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
ODENTALGIA: BROKE TOOTH THURSDAY AND TRIED TO PULL TOOTH OUT WITH PLIERS, DENTAL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2007	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
TIGHTENING LUG NUTS ON TIRE WRENCH SNAPPED AND PT FELL BACK ONTO HAND/ FX RT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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