Accidents - Hatchets or axes - 26-50 years old - Years 1997-2010 - Head

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,316
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1997:	117
Year 1998:	66
Year 1999:	210
Year 2000:	126
Year 2001:	110
Year 2002:	98
Year 2003:	16
Year 2004:	144
Year 2005:	167
Year 2006:	117
Year 2007:	110
Year 2008:	14
Year 2009:	15

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 05/19/2009	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
HEAD LAC, PT WAS CLEANING OUT GARAGE AND AXE FELL ONTO HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes, Alcohol
PT WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH A HATCHET 20-30 MIN. PRIOR TO COMING, HAS SOME CHEST DISCOMFORT. DX-SCALP LACERATION, BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA, ETOH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/03/2007	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
STRUCK SELF INTO HEAD ACC BY AN AXE WHILE WORKING IN THE YARD " LAC"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/03/2007	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Hatchets or axes
DX POST CONCUSSIVE SYNDROME: USING AX TO CHOP WOOD, PIECE OF WOOD FLEW UP AND HIT PT'S HEAD AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2007	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hatchets or axes
PATIENT HIT IN THE HEAD WITH AN AXE HANDLE AND SUSTAINED MULTIPLE CONTU SIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/27/2006	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
47 YO HIT IN HEAD BY AXE HANDLE LAC SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/25/2006	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hatchets or axes
STS: STRUCK ON HEAD C AN AX ACC, H/A SINCE " H/A"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/15/2006	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
PT HIT HEAD WITH HATCHET TRYING TO PULL IT OUT OF A TREE ~LACERATION HEAD~
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/07/2006	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hatchets or axes
PT CHOPPING WOOD AND A PIECE FLEW UP AND HIT HIM IN THE FOREHEAD. STATE S HE WAS STUNNED, DENIES LOC DX: 1.3 CM LAC TO FOREHEAD, CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/12/2005	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hatchets or axes
48 YO HIT IN BACK OF HEAD W/AXE HANDLE HEAD INJURY-TRAUMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2005	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hatchets or axes
DX HEAD CONTUSION: FELL WHILE CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE, HIT HEAD ON GROUND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2005	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
AX HIT HEAD LACER SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/2005	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hatchets or axes
SWINGING AXE & STRUCK SELF W/ BLUNT END OF AXE ON ACCIDENT. FACIAL LAC & HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/26/2004	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
PT DX SCALP/EARLOBE LACERATION - S/P HIT WITH AN AX ON THE RT SIDE OF THE HEAD AT 1:00 PM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2004	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hatchets or axes
SPLITTING WOOD, HIT SELF IN HEAD W/BLUNT END OF HATCHET AT 10 PM. DX. ABRA HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/06/2004	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
SCALP LAC-IN WOODS-PULLING TREE LIMBS DOWN W/A HATCHET-HIT HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/13/2004	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
45YOM AT HOME CUTTING WOOD HIT IN FOREHEAD BY AXE WHEN IT SLIPPED FROM HAND DX/ 2 IN LAC SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2003	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
HIT BY AXE DX. SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2002	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes, Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
35 YOWM WAS USING AN AXE TO BREAK UP CONCRETE WHEN THE AXE BECAME CAUGH T IN A CLOTHES LINE AND "RECOILD BACK ON PT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2002	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes, Ceilings and walls
SCALP LACERATION- HEAD INJURY- SUSTAINED WHEN HE FLUNG A PICK AXE OV ER HIS SHOULDER , HIT THE CEILING AND FELL ON HIS HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/05/2002	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hatchets or axes
HIT SELF WITH AXE DX. HEAD CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/14/2001	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes, Ceilings and walls
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/15/2001	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/12/2001	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2000	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/05/2000	Age: 32 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2000	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/1999	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/21/1999	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/16/1999	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes, Snow boarding
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/1999	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/22/1998	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Hatchets or axes, Clotheslines or clothes drying racks
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/1997	Age: 30 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/24/1997	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/1997	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hatchets or axes
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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