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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 734
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2010 | 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 22YOWM LAC TO L 5TH FINGER, GRINDING STEEL AND THE MACHINE KICKED BACK AND CUT FINGER AT HOME. DX. LAC L 5TH FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2010 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 23 YOM-WHILE USING A WIRE WHEEL GRINDING METAL YEST IN EYE DX CORNEAL ABRASION FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2010 | Age: 25 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 25YOM USING A POWER GRINDER ON METAL AND SUSTAINED A CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2010 | 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: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 24YOM CUT LEFT MIDDLE FINGER ON A GRINDER, LACERATION TO LEFT MIDDLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 17 Y/O MALE WORKING WITH A METAL GRINDER & A PART OF THE WHEEL BROKE OFF & STRIKE HIM IN FACE & SHOULDER AT FRIENDS HOUSE DX: LAC TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2010 | 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 20 YO M CUT FINGER AND NAIL OPEN WHILE USING AN ANGLE GRINDER. LPTMS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/12/2010 | Age: 21 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 21 YOM-PT HAS FB SENSATION TO R EYE-METAL FROM GRINDING DX CORNEAL FB REMOVED * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2010 | Age: 20 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 20YOM- PT WAS USING A GRINDER ON HIS G-MA'S CAR SLIPPED CUTTING FOREARM DX FOREARM LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 22 YO M WORKING ON TRUCK, HIT IN LIP WITH GRINDER.DX LIP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 17YOM, GRINDING METAL AT SCHOOL, FEELS FB SENSATION IN EYE, NO CORNEAL FB OR ABRASION SEEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 17YOM, C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF EYE FB SENSATION WHILE SUING A METAL GRINDER WHEEL @ SCHOOL>>CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2010 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 23 YOM WAS USING A GRINDER AND FEELS LIKE A PIECE OF METAL IS IN EYE/ C ORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 01/25/2010 | Age: 20 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 20 YOM WAS CUT ON POWER GRINDER. DX: R HAND LAC 3 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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