Accidents - Sprayers - 26-50 years old - Year 2008

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,343
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Finger:	569	Hand:	403
Lower Trunk:	374	Foot:	341
Eyeball:	308	Upper Trunk:	110
Shoulder:	71	Face:	44
All Of Body:	44	Knee:	30
Lower Arm:	14	Wrist:	14
Lower Leg:	14

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/08/2008	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS TRYING TO PRESSURE WASH AT HOME AND FELL STRAINED RIGHT KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/31/2008	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
44 YO M LEFT EYE INJURY INJURED WHEN HE LOST CONTROLL OF THE HOSE ON A POWER WASHER AT HOME*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/07/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Sprayers
POWER WASHING DOWN SOME SAND GOT IN EYES RED BLURRY FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/29/2008	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Sprayers
ARM AB-USING PRESSURE WASHER-HIT ARM-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/22/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
PT USING HIS PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME ON THURSDAY WHEN THE STREAM OFF WA TER DUG INTO LOWER LEG THE AREA GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/18/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Sprayers
SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO L FOOT USING A PRESSURE WASHER#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/16/2008	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Sprayers
PT BURNED HAND ON EXHAUSE OF PRESSURE WASHER. DX: BURNS L HAND/FINGERS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/12/2008	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Sprayers, Bleaches
PT RECEIVED CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS WHEN PRESSURE WASHING HOUSE USING BLEACH AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Electric Shock
Product: Sprayers
USING PRESSURE WASHER WHEN JOLT OF ELECTRICITY HIT HAND, WENT UP TO SHOULDER, TINGLING. DX-ELECTRICAL SHOCK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
CUT LFT LITTLE FINGER ON PRESSURE WASHER DX LACERATIONLFT LITTLE FINGER ***
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/27/2008	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Sprayers
PT LIFTED POWER WASHER. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2008	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS USING A GAS POWERED POWER WASHER IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE. DX CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2008	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS USING A GAS POWERED WASHER IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE. DX; CARBON MONO XIDE POISONING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/22/2008	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
HIT WRIST WITH PRESSURE WASHER LAC WRIST *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/10/2008	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Sprayers, Motor vehicles or parts
PT LIFTING A PRESSURE WASHER INTO THE BACK OF HIS PICK UP TRUCK AT HOME AND STRAINED LOWER BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2008	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
PT INJURED HAND WITH A PRESSURE WASHER. DX: RIGHT HAND PRESSURE WASHER INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/21/2008	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
CUT HAND WITH PRESSURE WASHER. DX LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 07/19/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
USING PRESSURE WASHER, CUT HAND. DX HAND LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
PT INJURED FINGERS WHILE FIXING A POWER WASHER AT HOME DX// LAC LEFT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING AND HAS PX. DX: HAND PX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/11/2008	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
48 YO MALE BENT OVER AND LIFTED POWER WASHER ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/29/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
PT IS A DIABETIC WAS PRESSURE WASHING 6 DAYS AGO AND RAN WASHER OVER F OOT CAUSED AN ABRASION WHICH GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/22/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS POWER WASHING AND ACCID HIT FOOT. DX: R FOOT ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/20/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Sprayers
PT STATES HIT R HAND W/A HIGH PRESSURE WASHER. DX. CONT R HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/19/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
37 YOM WAS USING PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND IT POPPED BACK ON HIM LACE RATING HIS FOREHEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS LIFTING A POWER WASHER YESTERDAY & DEVELOPED BACK PAIN DX: LUMBAR STRAIN
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: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
CUT HAND WITH PRESSURE WASHER DX: HAND LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS USING A PRESSURE WASHER AND FELT PAIN IN UPPER BACK THAT RADIATE D INTO SHOULDER AND CHEST ADMITTED FOR CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/10/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
INJURED USING PRESSURE WASHER/FINGER LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/09/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Sprayers
37 YO PRESSURE WASHER BLEW UP FLASH FIRE INJURING KNEES BURN KNEE--NO FIRE DEPT INVOLVEMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Sprayers
47 YO F BURN TO FINGER GOT UP AGAINST ENGINE OF POWER WASHER*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers, Footwear
PT WAS AT HOME USING A POWER WASHER WHILE WEARING "***" SANDALS POWER WASHER CAUSED A LACERATION TO RT FOOT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2008	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
46 YO MALE CUT LEFT THUMB WITH POWER WASHER LACERATION THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2008	Age: 38 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Sprayers
INJECTION INJ TO FOOT: USING 3000 PSI PRESSURE WASHER, HIT FOOT WITH STREAM CAUSING P.W.,WATER ENTERED WOUND,LOTS OF WATER CAME OUT OF WOUND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/02/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Sprayers
BACK STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN MOVING A POWER WASHER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/26/2008	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers, Paints, varnishes or shellacs
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SELF IN HAND USING HIGH PRESSURE WASHER WITH PAINT. DX-LEFT HAND INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2008	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Sprayers
39YOM WAS USING A PRESSURE WASHER TO CLEAN HIS DECK,APPROXIMATELY 8 HOURS,DEVELOPED LOW BACK PAIN;LUMBAR STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Sprayers, Eyeglasses
PT WAS HIT IN FACE W/WATER STREAM FROM PRESSURE WASHER WHICH KNOCKED GLASSES OFF. DX: R EYE CORNEAL ABR/BLUNT TRAUMA, EPISTAXIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2008	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
DX R FOOT WOUND W ERYTHEMA: DIABETC P/W A "Y" SUPERFICIAL ABRASION/LAC ON DORSUM OF R FOOT FROM PRESSURE WASHER, WHILE WASHING DRIVEWAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Sprayers
PT TOUCHED HOT PRESSURE WASHER ENGINE. DX: R HAND SUPERFICIAL BURN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/12/2008	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Sprayers
PT SPRAINED SHOULDER WHEN PRESSURE WASHING HIS HOUSE AND FELT SHOULDER POP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/07/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
PT USING A PRESSURE WASHER AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT THIRD FI NGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2008	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: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS USING A POWERWASHER AND RECIEVED LACERATION TO LEFT 5TH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/06/2008	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING HIS ROOF AND FELL ABOUT TEN FEET FRACTURED PEL VIS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/02/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING AT HOME. DX: LOW BACK PX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/14/2008	Age: 40 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: Sprayers
PT WAS USING POWER WASHER YESTERDAY. DX: THORACIC STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2008	Age: 32 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: Sprayers
32 YO INJURED FINGER USING PRESSURE WASHER FX FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING HIS ROOF AND FELL OFF SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT INDEX FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/2008	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Sprayers
PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING YESTERDAY AND GOT SOMETHING IN LEFT EYE FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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