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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 420
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/16/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT WORKING AT HOME WHEN HE FELL ONTO A HEAVY METAL WIRE SUSTAINED A PUN CTURE WOUND TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2003 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PUNCTURED HAND WITH COPPER WIRE DX P.W. HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2003 | 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: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| CUT ON LIGHT SWITCH PANEL-LACERATION RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2003 | 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: Laceration |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Knives with replaceable blades |
| PUTTING IN ELECTRICAL WIRING, CUT ON *** KNIFE HAND LAC HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2003 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| 54 YO MALE WAS CHANGING 277 V SWITCH AND HIT SIDE OF BOARD PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN, RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| FRACTURE HAND - 80 YOF TRIPPED AND FELL OVER A CORD IN HER YARD LANDING ON HER LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2003 | Age: 19 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: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF HIS HAND AS A RESULT OF TRIPPING ON A CABL E CORD INTO WINDOW GLASS AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2003 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| SEPARATING A CORD FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| 22 YOM HOLDING ELECTRICAL WIRES IN BOTH HANDS AND WAS SHOCKED BURN HAN D |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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