Accidents - Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers - 16-25 years old - Year 2009

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,818
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Eyeball:	1,927	Finger:	405
Knee:	202	Ankle:	82
Lower Arm:	69	Upper Leg:	69
Hand:	47	Ear:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/25/2009	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
22 YOM PT GRINDING METAL AND AND C/O SOMETHING IN EYE. FOREIGN BODY EY E - REMOVED.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2009	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
24YOM WAS GRINDING STEEL AT HOME YESTERDAY FELT A FOREIGN OBJECT ENTER RIGHT EYE;CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
19 YOM GOT A PIECE OF METAL FROM GRINDER IN EYE. DX-FOREIGN BODY RIGHT CORNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2009	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
16YOM C/O GRINDER "ATTACKED ARM" NOTED TO BE STRUCK IN SLEEVE NOT FOREA RM.DX: ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2009	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
24 YOM PRESENTED TO ER WITH A RT INDEX FINGER PAIN WHILE WORKING WITH G RINDING TOOLS CUTTING THE TIP OF FINGER DX LACERATION TO FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/2009	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
FB TO L EYE WHILE GRINDING AT HOME DX: CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2009	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
23Y/O,M,AFTER GRINDING METALS FELT FB SENSATION R EYE, FB IN R CORNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2009	Age: 18 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Eye protection devices
PT WAS USING A GRINDER EARLIER TODAY, WHILE WEARING SAFETY GLASSES, FELT AS IF GOT SOMETHING IN EYE, PIECE OF METAL DX: CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2009	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LAC TO KNEE FROM GRINDER/ LT KNEE LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2009	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
DX CORNEAL FB: C/O OF STEEL FRAGMENT IN L EYE LAST NOC W GRIND'G; SINCE REPORTS FB SENSATION W CLOS'G EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/23/2009	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PATIENT CUT FINGERS WITH GRINDER AT SCHOOL. DX; AVULSION TO 1ST AND 2 ND FINGERS , LEFT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL, F/B SENSATION DX: RT EYE F/B SENSATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/17/2009	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: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
DX SUPERFICAL SKIN LAC, BEHIND L EAR: C/O BUPM'G HEAD ON A SHARP EDGE OF A DIE GRINDER; APPROX 1/4 LAC NOTED W SWELL'G AROUND AREA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/16/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
19YO BLACK MALE AT SCHOOL GRINDING PIECE OF METAL & FELL INTO PTS EYE DX CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/09/2009	Age: 20 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT LACERATED FINGER WHILE USING A WORKSHOP GRINDER. DX: RIGHT THUMB LACERATION, SUTURED.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2009	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS AT HOME GRINDING METAL WITH AN UNSPECIFIED GRINDER WHEN HE FELT SOMETING IN HIS RT EYE DX: RT FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2009	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
ACCIDENTLY CUT HIS LEFT KNEE WITH A GRINDER AT HOME. DX: LACERATION TO LEFT KNEE*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/24/2009	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GOT HAND CAUGHT IN A GRINDER AT *** TOOL AND DIE CLASSDX-NAILBED LAC, V AIL AVULSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2009	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CUT FINGER ON GRINDER. DX: L 2ND FINGER LAC .5 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/17/2009	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
METAL FLEW IN EYE WHILE USING GRINDER FB LT EYE *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/12/2009	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING PIECE OF STEEL, C/O FOREIGN BODY SENSATION L EYE. FOREIGN BODY SENSATION L EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2009	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: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Welding equipment
FOREIGN BODY EYE - 25 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH FOREIGN BODY IN RIGHT EYE A FTER WELDING AND GRINDING - CANNOT FULLY OPEN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/28/2009	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Tables
20 Y O M CUT KNEE ON A GRINDER- GRINDER KICKED BACK WHILE GRINDING A WELD FROM A TABLE AT HOME LACERATION LEFT KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2009	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
24YOM AT HOME USING A GRINDER TO GRIND METAL WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO RT EYE;FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2009	Age: 18 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: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL ON BACKHOE-THIGH LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2009	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
AT HOME GRINDING A PIEC OF METAL ..WHEN A PIECE WENT INTO EYE ...FB REM OVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2009	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL OVERHEAD AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE. DX: CORNEAL FB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2009	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING , PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO EYE/ CORNEAL FB WITH RUST RING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2009	Age: 23 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: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL. REPORTS FOREIGN BODY IN LEFT EYE. DX: FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2009	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING ON STEEL, FOREIGN BODY REMOVED FROM EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2009	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS USING A GRINDER AT HOME AND CUT FINGER DX: FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
19YOM GRINDING EXHAUST OF HIS CAR WITH GRINDER,WEARING NO EYE PROTECTION, WHEN A PC OF METAL WENT INTO LT EYE;FB REMOVAL EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2009	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL AND GOT SOME IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2009	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL AND WAS HIT IN EYE W/PIECE 3 DAYS AGO. DX: L EYE METALLIC FB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2009	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Welding equipment
GRINDING AND WELDING IN METAL SHOP AT SCHOOL, FOREIGN BODY REMOVED FROM CORNEA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2009	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
GRINDING BOLTS AT HOME, HAS CORNEAL ABRASION TO EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/05/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WATCHING DAD GRIND METAL WHEN FELT SOMETHING ENTER EYE. D: CORNEAL F OREIN BODY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2009	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING METAL AT HOME TODAY INJURED EYE DX// LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2009	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
17YMC USING A GRINDER AND HIT FINGER/AVULSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2009	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
24 Y/O CUT HAND ON A GRINDER. DX-LAC RIGHT HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/04/2009	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CUT HAND ON GRINDER WHILE WORKING ON TRUCK. DX: L HAND LAC 10 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/04/2009	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT ON METAL WHILE USING GRINDER DX: ANKLE LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2009	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS GRINGING TODAY FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2009	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL AND PIECE WENT INTO EYE. DX: R EYE FB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2009	Age: 19 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CORNEAL ABRASION OS. FOREIGN BODY OS IRRITATION AFTER GRINDING METAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2009	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CAUGHT FINGER IN A GRINDER AT HOME DX// LEFT MIDDLE FINGER CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/11/2009	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Eyeglasses
GRINDING METAL AT HOME WEARING GLASSES, HAS FOREIGN BODY EYE WITH RESID UE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/09/2009	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
17YMC GRINDING METAL WITH SAFETY GLASSES ON AND SOMETHING WENT INTO EYE/CONJUNCTIVITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2009	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
25YMC USING A GRINDER AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE WEARING SAFETY GLASSES/FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/18/2009	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT USING ANGLE GRINDER ON A METAL BUMPER AND FELT SOMETHING STRIKE EYE, BLACK SPECK ON IRIS; FOREIGN BODY IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/11/2009	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS DOING SOME GRINDING ON METAL EARLIER AND BELIEVES HE MAY HAVE GO TTEN STEEL SHAVINGS IN L EYE. DX. CORNEAL ABRA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2009	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GOT PIECE OF METAL IN EYE WHEN USING A GRINDER . DX CORNEAL FOREIGN BOD Y REMOVID WITH RESIDUAL#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/08/2009	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING PLASTIC AND METAL WITH ROTARY *** TOOL AT HOME NO SAFETY GOGGLES // EMBEDDED FB RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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