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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,615
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| PATIENT CUT LEFT ARM WITH A ***ER SAW CUTTING WOOD. DX-LACERATIONFOREAR M. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| 25 Y/O M INJURED L INDEX FINGER WHILE USING CHOP SAW AT HOME. DX; LAC L INDEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2007 | 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: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power saws |
| CUTTING 2X4 USING POWER SAW,STH, ?WOODEN FB FLEW INTO EYE >> CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| CUT FINGER WITH ELECTRIC SAW, DX; R RING FINGER LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2007 | 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: Power saws |
| ACCIDENTLY CUT THUMB WITH ELECTRICAL SAW, DX; THUMB LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| PT CUT L INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS ON RUNNING SAW AT HOME. DX. LAC L MI DDLE FINGER, SKIN AVULSION 2ND DIGIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Power saws |
| PT RECEIVED HEMATOMA TO SCALP WHEN HUSBAND CUTTING DOWN LIMB AT HOME WITH SAW AND LIMB HIT HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power saws, Motor vehicles or parts |
| RD, REAR-ENDED MVC @ HS, WHERE HIS MITER SAW THRUST FORWARS HITTING BAC K OF HEAD >> CHI/LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/01/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| CUT WITH ELECTRIC SAW, DX; LAC. THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/14/2007 | 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 saws |
| PT USING AN ELECTRIC SAW AT HOME AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO FINGERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws, Pipes |
| PT CUT FINGER WHEN CUTTING PEICE OF PIPE WITH A BACK SAW AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| CUT TO FINGER WHILE USING POWER SAW DX: FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO RIGHT INDEX FINGER AFTER CUTTING IT WITH POWER SA W |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| PT WITH LAC TO LOWER ARM WITH MACHINE SAW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2007 | 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: Power saws |
| PT WAS CUTTING A TREE WITH ELECTIC SAW, CUT SELF WITH SAW, LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power saws |
| ~USED SAW TO CUT BOARD IN SHOP CLASS TODAY,BOARD FLEW UP,HIT FACE/NOSE, NOSEBLEED,NASAL LAC,HEADACHE,DIFFICULTY BREATHING FROM NOSE;NASAL FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2007 | Age: 19 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: Power saws |
| PT USING JAM SAW,CUT L PINKY FINGER DX FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power saws |
| USING CHOP SAW & CONCRETE CHIP WENT INTO EYE FB LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| PT INJURED ELBOW WITH A CHOP SAW AT HOME TODAY DX// LEFT ELBOW LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| WAS IN SHOP CLASS @ SCHOOL, CUTTING BOARD WITH MITER SAW DX LACERATION R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| CUT TO FINGER ON BLADE OF ELECTRIC SAW DX: FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2007 | 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: Fracture |
| Product: Power saws |
| 25YOM CUT ON SAWZALL FX PHALANX LAC R INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| CUT WITH ELECTRIC SAW LAC. WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Power saws |
| PT WAS WITH BROTHER IN BASEMENT WHILE BROTHER WAS USING A GAS POWERED CEMENT SAW , DX: MILD CARBON MONIXIIDE POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Power saws |
| PT USED A GAS POWERED CEMENT SAW IN BASEMENT FOR SEVERAL HOURS & BECAME DIZZY WITH HEADACHE & VOMITTING, DX: MILD CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| APPROX 1/2 INCH LAC TOP OF L HAND, CUT WITH MITER SAW 1 1/2 HOURS AGO. DX. LAC L HAND PT LEFT. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/15/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power saws |
| CUT TO FINGER ON BLADE OF ELECTRIC SAW DX: FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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