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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,447
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/06/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| HIT BY TREE LIMB WHILE CUTTING WOOD LT KNEE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Swings or swing sets |
| JUMPING OFF OF A ROPE TREE SWING WHILE SWIMMING AND HIT KNEE. LACERATIO N L KNEE# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Football |
| L KNEE PAIN, RAN INTO TREE PLAYING FOOTBALL DX; KNEE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| WOKRING IN THE YARD, REPROTS BEING POKED SERVERAL TIMES BY PRICKER BUSH TO THE KNEE, NO WITH LOCALIZED SKIN SWELLING&REDNESS>>CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| CONTUSION KNEE - 31 YO MALE REPORTS HE WAS CUTTING DOWN A TREE AND THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK HIT HIS LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws |
| PATIENT SUSTAINED A CUT ACROSS THE KNEE WHILE CUTTING A TREE WITH A CHAIN SAW. DX-LT KNEE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| PT WAS CUTTING A TREE WHEN PART OF THE TREE ROLLED ONTO KNEE. UNKNOWN T YPE OF CUTTING TOOL. NOT WORK RELATED- DISABLED. DX. KNEE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| PT WAS DOING HEAVY LIFTING & WAS CUTTING DOWN A TREE & TWISTED KNEE DX: SPRAINED LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2007 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Manual pruning or trimming equipment |
| 29Y/O,M,TRIMMING HEDGES AND SLIPPED, TWISTED L KNEE, L KNEE & ANKLE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2007 | 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: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| RT KNEE SPRAIN: CUTTING TREES YESTERDAY, TWISTED KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2007 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chairs |
| PT AT A PARTY STOOD UP FROM CHAIR FAINTED INTO BUSHES DX// RIGHT KNEE AND SHOULDER ABRASION NEAR SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2007 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Fences or fence posts |
| STUMBLED -TRIPPED FELL AGAINST A TREE AND A FENCE ABRASIONS SOFT TISSUE LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2007 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Mobile/Manufactured home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, House repair or construction materials |
| PT WAS ON ROOF OF MOBILE HOME CUTTING TREE BRANCHES AND FELL OFF ROOF ONTO KNEE, DX: SPRAINED LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| PT CUTTING TREE BRANCHES OFF TREE AT HOME AND A BRANCH FELL ON HIS LEG ABRASION NOTED ON KNEE PT LEFT BEFORE BEING TREATED DX// LEFT KNEE ABRA |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 12/14/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws |
| PT CUTTING A TREE DOWN WITH A CHAIN SAW AND IT KICKED BACK INTO LEFT KN EE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2006 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Christmas decorations |
| PT WAS DECORATING A CHRISTMAS TREE AND TWISTED THE KNEE CAUSING A SPRAI N |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2006 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws |
| CUTTING TREES WITH CHAINSAW, SAW KICKED BACK, CUT TO KNEE, DX; KNEE LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2006 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws |
| CUTTING A TREE WITH CHAIN SAW, SLIPPED & CUT L KNEE @ HOME DX L KNEE LACERATON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Lawn mowers |
| FELL OVER A LIMB WHILE MOWING, C/O KNEE PAIN, DX; KNEE SPRAIN/ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2006 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Swings or swing sets |
| FELL OUT OF TREE WHILE SWINGING ON ROPE SWING. ABRASION, LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2006 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Saws |
| PATIENT WAS CUTTING A TREE WITH A SAW, FELL ON PIECE OF WOOD, CUT KNEE. DX-LACERATION KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2006 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Ladders |
| PT JUMPED OFF LADDER TO AVOID BEING HIT BY A TREE, FELL LANDING ON KNEE DX: RIGHT KNEE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2006 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Ladders |
| PT TRIMMING A TREE ON AN 8 FOOT LADDER AND THE TREE LIMB FELL ACROSS TH E LADDER KNOCKING IT OUT FROM UNDER HER FELL ONTO LEFT KNEE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws |
| CUTTING DOWN A FALLING TREE W/ A CHAIN SAW LEFT KNEE LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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