Accidents - Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers - 26-50 years old - Year 2009

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 3,137
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Eyeball:	1,723	Finger:	514
Upper Leg:	308	Hand:	297
Mouth:	70	Shoulder:	69
Foot:	69	Knee:	37
All Of Body:	30	Lower Arm:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/26/2009	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
41YOM CUT (R) KNEE WITH METAL GRINDER DX;* (R) KNEE LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2009	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
38YOM FOREIGN BODY IN EYE GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE USING A GRINDER ON A CAR*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2009	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WITH UNKNOWN OBJECT IN LEFT EYE AFTER USING GRINDER. DX FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2009	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
28 YO M USING ANGLE GRINDER WHEN IT KICKED BACK AND STRUCK SHOULDER. DX :SHOULDER LACERATIONS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/22/2009	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
LAC TO TOP OF WRIST FROM A GRINDING WHEEL WHEN IT FLEW OFF & GOT MY HAN D DX LAC BLEED *
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/20/2009	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS USING A POWER METAL GRINDER AND SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION TO EY E. HAPPENED AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/15/2009	Age: 40 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
40YOM GRINDING HIS MOTORCYCLE AT HOME WITH A POWER GRINDER AND GOT A P IECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/14/2009	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT HAS FB TO (L) EYE AFTER USING A GRINDER TO GRIND METAL DX;* FB (L ) EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/04/2009	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT.INJ.RT.EYE AT HOME WHEN USING A POWER GRINDER & GOT F.B. IN EYE. DX; F.B. RT.EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2009	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
27YOM USING A POWER GRINDER AT FATHER IN LAWS HOUSE AND SUSTAINED A DE EP LACERATION TO LEFT THIGH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/01/2009	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
USING GRINDER ON WOOD AT HM GRINDER HAD BEEN MODIFIED 4 INCREASED POWER W SOME KIND OF CHAIN SAW COMPONENT GRNDR GOT AWAY FRM HIM D LAC R FNGRS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2009	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
30YOM USING AN ANGLE GRINDER AT HOME - LACERATION RIGHT THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2009	Age: 37 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Vises or workshop clamps
37YOM USING A POWER GRINDER ON A PIECE OF METAL THAT WAS BEING HELD IN A VISE AT HOME AND THE GRINDER KICKED BACK SUSTAINED A FINGER LACERATIO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/18/2009	Age: 45 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS USING A GRINDER AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL DX: LEFT CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY, REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2009	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
32 YOM, CUT FINGER ON GRINDER WHEEL AT HOME, FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2009	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
? CHEMICAL PNEUMONITIS-49 Y/O M-COUGH SINCE GRINDING CONCRETE-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2009	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
POWER EDGE GRINDER SLIPPED, CUT THIGH DX: THIGH LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/19/2009	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
42 YO M LACERATION TO FINGER CUT ON GRINDING WHEEL AT HOME*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2009	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
GRINDING WHEEL EXPLODED-L EYE HURTING & RED DX FB REMOVED WITH RESIDUAL MATERIAL *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/17/2009	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS USING PROPANE POWERED GRINDER IN BASEMENT AND WAS EXPOSEDTO CARB ON MONOXIDE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/15/2009	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS AT HOME USING A GRINDER AT HOME ON SOME METAL GOT SOME IN EYE CAUSING AN ABRASION TO LT CORNEA, W/ RUST RING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/14/2009	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
GRINDING A BOLT & FELT A "HOT PC GO INTO L EYE DX L CORNEAL ABRASION FB REMOVED *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2009	Age: 26 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Stairs or steps
WAS GRINDING SOME RUSTY STEPS AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO L EYE DX- CORNE AL ABRA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/28/2009	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
FOOT PAIN AFTER A STEEL GRINDER FELL ON HIS FOOT DX R FX CLOSED NON-DISPLACED METATARSAL #4 *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/25/2009	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: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2009	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Saws
WHILE GRINDING A BOLT W A SAW THE GRINDING DISC EXPLODED DX L 2ND FINGER LAC *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2009	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WITH CORNEAL ABRASION AFTER GETTING SOMETHING IN EYES AFTER USING GR INDER. DX CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2009	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
GOT FB IN R EYE WHILE GRINDING ( AT HOME ) DX CORNEAL ABRASION, REMOVED FB W RESIDUAL MATERAIL *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/09/2009	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A GRINDER AT HOKME AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT INDEX FI NGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/04/2009	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: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE GRINDING POSS FB / DX FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/04/2009	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
38 YO M FOREIGN BODY IN EYE, PIECE OF METAL GOT IN EYE WHILE GRINDING METAL*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/04/2009	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE GRINDING METAL POSSIBLE FB R EYE/ DXR EYE FB PIECE OF METAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2009	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Eye protection devices
PT WAS USING A POWER GRINDER WHILE USING PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR AND A PIECE OF METAL WENT UNDER EYEWEAR INTO LEFT EYE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2009	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A POWER "*** GRINDER" AT HOME AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LE FT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/2009	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
CUT THIGH WITH GRINDER LACERATION THIGH #
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2009	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Mountain climbing
PT WAS USING A GRINDER TO PUT AN EDGE ON CLIMBING SHOES AND GRINDER SLI PPED. DX: LACERATION HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/29/2009	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING HIS FRIENDS CAR WHEN THE GRINDER SLIPPED OUT OF HIS H AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LOWER ARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2009	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
FOREIGN BODY ,SLIVER OF METAL WHILE GRINDING. DX-CONJUNCTIVITIS RIGHT EYE, POSSIBLE FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/19/2009	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE USING A GRINDER POSS FBI IN R EYE/ DX CORNEAL ABRASIONS R EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/23/2009	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
R EYE PAIN AFTER GRINDING METAL AT HOME DX: FB REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/18/2009	Age: 50 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS AT HOME USING A POWER GRINDER, HAND SLIPPED CAUSING A LACERATION TO RT HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/12/2009	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Floors or flooring materials
PT USING A POWER GRINDER ON A PIECE OF FLOORING TILE AND A PIECE WENT I NTO RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/11/2009	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT SUSTAINED LACERATION TO L ANTERIOR THIGH FROM A GRINDER DX LACERATION OF THIGH/ABRASION OF FINGER *********
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/01/2009	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT.STATES NOTED F.B. L.EYE AFTER USING A POWER GRINDER AT HOME. DX; F.B . L. CORNEAL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/01/2009	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT STATES GRINDER KICKED BACK TODAY & LACERATED RT HAND DX R HAND LACERATION ************
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2009	Age: 40 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING GRINDER-FB R EYE METAL PIECE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2009	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: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT GRINDING METAL ON MONDAY AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE CONTI NUED PAIN FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2009	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Mobile/Manufactured home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Mobile/manufactured homes
PT WAS GRINDING ON HIS METAL TRAILER WITHOUT A FACE SHIELD AND SOMETHIN G WENT INTO RIGHT EYE FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/13/2009	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT HAS INJURY TO THIGH DUE TO GRINDING STONE AT HOME 10CM LACERATION RT THIGH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/09/2009	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
USING ANGLE GRINDER AT HOME WHEN TURNED IT ON AND IT FELL STRIKING HIM IN MOUTH DX COMPLEX 4.5 CM LACERATION OF UPPER LIP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2009	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A POWER GRINDER ON METAL AND A PIECE WENT INTO RIGHT EYE FB EY E
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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