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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 372
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/26/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Containers |
| PT FELL LANDING ON A HAMMER WHEN CARRING BOXES AT HOME CAUSING CHEST INJ DX:CHEST BRUISES/ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| WAS STANDING BEHIND SOMEONE USING A SLEDGEHAMMER& THE HEAD CAME OFF STR IKING HER IN THE CHEST. CHEST TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 08/07/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT INJ SHOLDER BREAKING UP CEMENT WITH HAMMER DX: THORACIC STRAIN + |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT SWINGING A SLEDGE HAMMER AT HOME STRAINED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2002 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS BREAKING UP TILES WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2002 | 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: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| SUBACUTE MI - CHEST AND SHOULDER PAIN AFTER SWINGING SLEDGEHAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
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