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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,538
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2006 | 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: Finger | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT USING POWER HAMMER,FINGER BETWEEN PIECE OF CONCRETE,POWER HAMMER DX CRUSH INJURY LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Scaffolding |
| SMASH 4TH FINGER BETWEEN JACKHAMMER & SCAFFOLDING DX: FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2006 | Age: 33 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: Other |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT W/ LOW BACK PAIN SINCE FOOTBALL INJURY IN COLLEGE. FELL FROM TRUCK 3 MOS. AGO & ALSO HAS BEEN JACKHAMMERING. INCREASED PAIN. D:CHRONIC LBP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2006 | Age: 34 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: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| 34YOM FINGER LAC CUT ON CONCETE WHILE RUNNING JACK HAMMER CONT LAC L FI NGER RING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2006 | Age: 50 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: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT WITH LOW BACK PAIN AFTER USING 100 LB. JACK HAMMER. D:LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT LACERATED HAND WITH A POWER TOOL AT HOME, DX; DEEP LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT WAS USING POWER ROTARY TOOL WHICH CAUGHT AND FLEW BACKWARD HITTING EYE. DX: R EYE TRAUMA/LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2006 | Age: 48 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: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| USING SCREW GUN PUTTING UP SHEET ROCK AND WENT INTO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| 28 YOM WAS USING A JACKHAMMER, PLACE UNSTATED, WHEN IT JUMPED AND HIT H IS LEFT ANKLE CAUSING A SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT CUT HAND ON A POWER TOOL TODAY DX// LEFT HAND LAC PT LEFT BEFORE BEING SEEN BY MD |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 09/04/2006 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT DX LACERATION RT MIDDLE FINGER - S/P PT CUT FINGER WORKING ON POWER TOOL AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PUNCTURED WITH HIS POWER DRILL. DX- PUNCTURE WOUND L KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PW LEFT HAND.PT INJURED HAND WITH AN AIR HAMMER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| 28 YOM LACERATED LEFT HAND WHILE USING A POWER TOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| WORKING W/WOOD WORKING TOOLS, INJURY TO THUMB AND INDEX FINGERS DX: AVULSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT INJURED SELF WITH UNSPECIFIED POWER TOOL RESULTING IN AVULSION LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT HAD FOREARM INJURY 4 MOS AGO, PT REINJURED FOREARM USING A MINI JACK HAMMER BREAKING UP CONCRETE DX: R FOREARM CONTU |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2006 | Age: 26 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: Amputation |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| USING A POWER TOOL SPLITTING WOOD AMPUTATING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2006 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT USING SANDBLASTER AT HOME AND GOT L THUMB IN FRONT OF NOZZLE DX: LAC, CONTU |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| DX RIGHT INDEX FINGER CONTUSION: USING RIVET GUN AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| 35YOM (PRISONER PRIVACY) BRAKE PRESS FX R PHALANX R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT LACERATED HAND WITH A POWER TOOL AT HOME, DX: DEEP LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HE GOT HIS FINGER CAUGHT IN A "PRESS" CAUSING A CR USHING INJURY TO HIS RT 3RD FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| USING AIR GUN, GOT SOMETHING IN EYE/ CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, House repair or construction materials |
| SMASHED THUMB WITH PILE DRIVER WHILE INSTALLING DECK BEAM/ FX,LAC RT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2006 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| USING A SANDBLASTER TO REMOVE RUST FROM HIS CAR AND GOT SOMETHING IN EY E FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, House repair or construction materials |
| USING A POWER WOOD PLANER AT HOME AND BOARD KICKED BACK INTO THUMB SPRA IN THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| A JACK HAMMER FELL ON PATIENT'S FINGER. DX-FRACTURE PHALANX LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2006 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| USING SLIDE HAMMER DIGGING HOLE AND HIT SELF IN HEAD LACERATION FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| USING ELECTRIC SCREWDRIVER, SCREW DRIVER SLIPPPED OFF SCREW AND PENETRATED FINGR/ PW LRF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT TRIPPED OVER A POWER TOOL AT UNCLES HOME - STRAINED WRIST WHEN LANDE D |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| USING BISCUIT JOINER AT HOME DX BROKEN FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2006 | Age: 44 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: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| CAUGHT FINGER B/T JACK HAMMER AND PIECE OF STEEL " FINGER LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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