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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 218
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT FRACTURED LOWER ARM WHEN CUTTING WOOD WITH AN AXE AND LARGE PEICE FLEW UP AND HIT ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2008 | Age: 34 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| R FOREARM STR/34YOM STS WAS CHOPPING WOOD YESTERDAY AT A FRIENDS HOUSE AND INJURED R FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CUTTING WOOD WITH AXE, FOREIGN BODY HIT AND STUCK IN ARM. DX; REMOVAL FB FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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