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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,238
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/11/2010 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 36YOM SUSTAINED FACIAL LACERATION WHEN THE GRINDER HE WAS USING SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS USING A GRINDER A BUSHING CAME OFF AND HIT PT IN NOSE LACERATI ON NOSE 48YOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 42 YOF WAS HIT BY PIECE OF METAL FROM GRINDER. DX: FOREHEAD LAC 4 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2010 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 32 Y/O/M INJURED FACE ON GRINDER AT HOME DX/ FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2010 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 37 YOM INJURED FACE FROM DISC FROM GRINDER. DX-ACUTE FACIAL INJURY, NASAL FRACTURE WITH LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2010 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 26YOM LAC FACE- DEBRIS FROM GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2010 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 50YOM, USING GRINDER AT HOME, BLADE SPLIT AND FLEW OFF HITTING PT IN FA CE, LAERATION TO FACE UNDER LOWER LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 50 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 50 Y/O M WAS GRINDING GRANITE 1 DAY BEFORE DX: ABRASION,DERMATITIS, CELLULITIS OF FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2009 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS USING A GRINDER AND LAC CHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2009 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDER CAME BACK AND STRUCK CHIN/ CHIN LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| P DX LACERATION OF SCALP/FOREHEAD - S/P PT C/P PIECE OF METAL GRINDER BROKE OF MACHINE AND HIT TO HIS FACE AND HEAD WHILE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2009 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| WAS GRINDING WHEN GRINDING WHEEL BROKE AND HIT PT IN FOREHEAD DX- LAC TO F/H |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2009 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT SUSTAINED UPPER EYE LID ABRASION WHILE GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDING & PIECE BROKE AGAINST RESISTANCE - PRESENTS WITH FORHEAD & HAN D LAC. FOREHEAD 4 CM, LAC HAND 4 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS USING GRINDER & IT KICKED BACK & HIT PT IN FACE AT HOME DX: ABRASION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| RT CHEEK LACERATION: LT HAND LACERATION: USING ***D ANGLE GRINDERAT HOM E IN GARAGE WHEN IT "BLEW UP" CUT L SIDE OF FACE 3 CM, HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT WAS GRINDING DOWN PC OF METAL ON CAR AT HOME & A PC OF METAL FLEW INTO FACE DX: LACERATION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT LAC FACE WHILE USING GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PIECE FLEW OFF OF GRINDING WHEEL AND HIT PT IN NOSE -LOC PT HAS LAC T O NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 26 YO GRINDING SHEET METAL HIT IN FACE BY PIECE OF METAL LAC FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT DOING YARD WORK-SHOVELING,DEVELOPED R WRIST PAIN,THEN HIT FACE INTO GRINDER WHEEL-ABRAS/LAC TO FOREHEAD,DX CELLULITIS,ABSCESS TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| EYELID FOREIGN BODY: GRINDING PIECE OF METAL OFF OF A CAR, RT EYE IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PATIENT CUT FOREHEAD ON A GRINDER THAT SLIPPED WHILE HE WAS UNDERNEATH REPAIRING IT. DX-LACERATION FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT HIT FACE ON GRINDER DX: LEFT FACE ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 47 YO MALE CUT NOSE ON PORTABLE GRINDER LACERATION FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| CHIN LAC-USING A GRINDER THAT KICKED OUT HITTING CHIN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| FELT SPARK FROM GRINDER HIT BRIDGE OF NOSE,LATER CAUSING BLEEDING. DX M INOR ABRASION OF NOSE# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDER BROKE/CHIN LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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