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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,553
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2005 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power sanders, Clothing |
| SHIRT CAUGHT IN BELT SANDER AVULSING SKIN ON FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PATIENT WAS USING A ROTATING SANDER & LACERATED HIS LT 4TH FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2005 | Age: 53 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: Power sanders |
| PT WAS WORKING WITH A POWER SANDER AND THE HANDLE CAME UP STRIKING HIM IN THE CHIN LACERATION FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2005 | Age: 47 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 sanders |
| CUT FINGER ON A ?POWER SANDER " LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power sanders |
| FB L EYE; DOING BODY WORK TODAY, GRINDING WITH SANDER ON VEHICLE & SOME THING GOT IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT USING BELT SANDER AND THUMB GOT SUCKED INTO SANDER C/OP AIN LEFT THU MB OPEN FRACTURE WITH TOTAL NAIL AVUUSLION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| LAC LIF W/ POWER SANDER TODAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power sanders, Doorsills or frames |
| PT WAS SANDING A DOOR JAMB WHEN HE GOT A SPLINTER OF WOOD UNDER HIS RIG HT INDEX FINGER NAIL FOREIGN BODY FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT CAUGHT FINGER IN BELT SANDER DX L RING FINGER NAIL AVULSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| CUT HAND @ HOME ON BELT SANDER THUMB LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2005 | Age: 47 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: Power sanders |
| WK AT HOME, SANDER SLIPPED HITTING F.HEAE. " LAC" S |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT SLIPPED WHILE USING A BELT SANDER. DX: R FIFTH FINGER ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| CAUGHT FINGER IN BELT SANDER AT SCHOOL. DX :CONTUSION, ABRASION FINGER . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT C/O FOOT INJURY. PT DROPPED SANDER ON FOOT. DX CONT AND HEMATOMA LFT FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2005 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| CAUGHT FINGER IN BELT SANDER AVULSION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2005 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| CUT USING BELTSANDER LAC. WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2005 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power sanders |
| 42 YEAR OLD MALE CAUGHT FINGER IN BELT SANDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2005 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| 1.5CM FINGER LAC-@ HOME-HIT W/ BELT SANDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2005 | Age: 35 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 sanders |
| WAS USING SANDER, ACCIDENTLY DID OVER 2 FINGERS. " LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT WAS LIFTING A FLOOR SANDER AT *** AND INJURED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2005 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power sanders, Floors or flooring materials |
| 1. 47 YOM DEVELOPS LOW BACK PAIN AFTER USING SNADER ON FLOOR AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2005 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT LACERATED FOREARM ON A POWER SANDER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2005 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| CUT FINGER ON ELECTRIC SANDER FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2005 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT CUT FINGER ON A SANDER BELT, SUSTAINED " FINGER SKIN AVULSION/LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders, Floors or flooring materials |
| CAUGHT FINGER IN FLOOR SANDING MACHINE WHILE SANDING FLOOR DX: L 4TH FINGER LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/10/2005 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| FING AVULSION, BELT SANDER RIPPED NAIL OFF FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT C/O BIL FINGER LAC. PT RAN BELT SANDER ACCROSS FINGER. DX ABRASSION R AND LFT FINGERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2005 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Power sanders, Ceilings and walls |
| SANDING PIECE OF WOOD WHEN SANDER BLADE SNAPPED, RICOCHETED OFF WALL & HIT FINGER, DX L HAND CRUSHING INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2005 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT FRACTURED FINGER WHILE USING A BELT SANDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power sanders |
| R HAND CELLULITIS/57YOM STS 1 MO AGO HIT HAND WITH DISC SANDER AND A LA YER OF SKIN WAS SLOUGHED OFF. HAND IS RED AND SWOLLEN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power sanders, Eye protection devices |
| PT WAS GRINDING METAL AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE. DX: CORNEA L ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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