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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,712
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT WITH LAC TO FINGER STARTING A LAWN MOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT WITH PAIN TO RIGHT ANKLE AFTER STEPPING IN HOLE WHILE MOWING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| BLISTER ON HAND AFTER CUTTING GRASS ABSCESS HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT TWISTED ANKLE WHILE MOWING YARD WITH POWER PUSH MOWER. DX; ST RAIN TO RIGHT ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| WAS MOWING LAWN WITH LAWN MOWER - WALKING BEHIND IT - STEPPED IN A HOLE AND INJ. FOOT. CONTUSION, LEFT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS AT HOME MOWING THE LAWN, THE GRASS GOT STUCK, REACHED DOWN TO UNBLOCK IT GETTING FINGER STUCK IN A PULLEY, CAUSING LT MID FINGER AVUL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2008 | Age: 41 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: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| 41 YO M LACERATION TO FINGER TRYING TO START LAWN MOWER KICKED BACK ROPE CUT FINGER* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| 38 YO M STING TO LEG INJURED WHILE MOWING THE GRASS* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| 45 YO F TENDONITIS TO SHOULDER PAIN STARTED 3 WEEKS AGO WHILE STARTING A LAWN MOWER* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PULLING CORD TO START PUSH MOWER, HURT SHOULDER. DX SHOULDER STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| FELL WHILE MOWING LAWN. STRAIN, RIGHT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| 32 YO F LACERATION TO THIGH CUT ON METAL GAURDRAIL WHILE MOWING THE GRASS* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS MOWING LAWN WITH A SELF PROPELLED MOWER & DEVELOPED HAND PAIN DX: NERE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT STATES HEARD A "POP" IN HIS FOOT YESTERDAY WHILE MOWING HIS GRASS DX FX RIGHT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PUSHING LAWNMOWER AT HOME DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN. DX CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| CUT ONE ACRE OF GRASS WITH POWER PUSH MOWER LUMBAR STRAIN BODY ACHES * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| ELBOW PAIN SINCE MOWING LAWN - CONTINUOUS PULLING ON MOWER ELBOW STRAIN / EPICONDYLITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PUSHING LAWN MOWER, HURT LOW BACK. DX LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| NECK PAIN FROM LAWN MOWER PULL CORD HITTING HIM IN THE NECK. DX-ACUTE NECK CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| 46YOM WAS HOME STARTING A LAWN MOWER BY PULLING THE CORD,DEVELOPED LOW BACK PAIN;BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 40 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: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| 40 YO INJURED FINGER ON LAWNMOWER BLADE LAC FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| WEAK AND DIZZY WHILE MOWING WITH PUSH LAWNMOWER. DX HEAT EXHAUSTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| ACUTE PUNCTURE WOUND RLE: CUTTING GRASS WITH *** LAWNMOWER, SOMETHING F LEW OUT FROM UNDER MOWER, STRIKING SHIN AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT CUT HAND ON LAWN MOWER ROPE WHILE TRYING TO START MOWER LACERATION LT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers, Footwear |
| GREAT TOE LAC-CAUGHT TOE IN "PUSH GASOLINE LAWN MOWER" THROUGH SHOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT C/O RT SHOULDER PAIN AFTER TRYING TO START MOWER. DX SHOULDER PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 42 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: Rotary power lawn mowers, Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WAS AT HOME WORING ON A LAWN MOWER USING A WRENCH,LACERATED RT 3RD FINGER ON THE LAWN MOWER BLADE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| LOWER BACK PAIN FROM CRANKING LAWN MOWER. DX-ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| TWISTED KNEE WHILE MOWING YARD TODAY. DX KNEE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT WITH CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS WHILE MOWING THE GRASS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT MOWING-HEARD POP-SPRAIN RIGHT ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| WAS PULL STARTING HIS LAWN MOVWER AND HAS ONSET OF LOW BACK PAIN DX- PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| LOW BACK PAIN: MOWING GRASS ONE MO AGO WITH *** LAWNMOWER AND HURT BACK PUSHIING LAWNMOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT HAS LOW BACK PAIN LIFTING LAWN MOWER AT HOME LUMBAR SPRAIN AND LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| 42 YO F WRIST SRPAIN INJURED TYING TO START MOWER PULLING 10 TIMES* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | 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: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT MOWING-ROCK HIT IN EYE-CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| FELL IN A HOLE WHILE MOWING GRASS LUMBAR STRAIN # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| FELL INTO HOLE AT HOME WHILE PUSHING LAWNMOWER RT SHOULDER STRAIN * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| ACCIDENTALLY GRABBED MUFFLER OF A PUSH MOWER CAUSING 1ST/2ND DEGREE BUR NS TO R FINGERTIPS# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN: CUTTING GRASS YESTERDAY, WALK BEHIND MOWER, BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | Age: 42 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: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS AT HOME SHARPENING THE BLADE ON A LAWN MOWER, LACERATED RT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT STATES BACK PAIN WHILE MOWING YARD AT HOME LUMBAR SPRAIN WITH LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2008 | Age: 40 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: Rotary power lawn mowers, Tools |
| LACERATIONS TO RT 4TH & 5TH FINGERS, PARTIAL TENDON LAC: TIGHTENINGBOLT ON *** LAWN MOWER, CUT ON MOWER BLADE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT WAS DOING YARD WORK, MOWING THE LAWN YESTERDAY, DEVELOPED LOW BACK PAIN. DX-LUMBOSACRAL SPINE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Rotary power lawn mowers |
| PT CUT LEFT LOWER LEG WHILE MOWING YARD PUSH MOWER LACERATION LT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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