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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 568
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/09/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| FX FINGER WHEN STRUCK ON A BLOWER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| 34 YOM HAS LOW BACK PAIN AFTER WORKING IN YARD WITH LEAF BLOWER LOWER BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| REPORTS PULLED BACK COUPLE WEEKS AGO WHICH WAS AGGRAVATED TODAY WHILE T RYING TO START LEAF BLOWER>>MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| PULLING A LEAF BLOWER STRAIN LUMBOSACRAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| PT STATES WAS BLOWING LEAVES AT HOME AND HAND BECAME NUMB WITH WEAKNESS DX: NEUROPATHY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| FINGER FX-INJURED ON LEAF BLOWER PROPELLOR-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| PT USING A LEAF BLOWER AT HOME AND GOT SOME DEBRIS IN LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Leaf blowers, Metal containers |
| TRIPPED OVER LEAF BLOWER IN BASEMENT, HIT CHEST ON STEEL CRATE. DX RIB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| 28 YO M FRACTURED FINGER WITH LACERATION GOT FINGER CAUGHT IN LEAF BLOWER* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| PT CAUGHT HAND IN FAN OF LEAD BLOWER AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| RIGHT LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN USING A BACKPACK TYPE LEAFBLOWE R |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| FINGER LAC. PT FELL AND CUT TIP OF FINGER ON THE BLOWER OF LEAF BLOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| PT USING BLOWER AT HOME ON DRIVEWAY AND GOT FB IN EYE DX// FB RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| 36 YOM JAMMED LEFT WRIST ON LEAF BLOWER SUSTAINING A FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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