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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,107
See also: Other years, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT CUT HAND ON FLOOR SANDER. DX: R HAND LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT GOT THUMB CAIGHT IN A DISK SANDER DX: CONTUSION TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2007 | Age: 17 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 |
| PT AT HOME USING A POWER SANDER AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT IND EX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT STANDING WITH AN ELECTRIC SANDER AND IT KICKED BACK FELL ONTO LEFT L OWER LEG LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2007 | Age: 59 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 CAUGHT L INDEX FINGER IN POWER SANDER @ HOME - FX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Power sanders, Ceilings and walls |
| P/W ELECTRIC SHOCK THRU HAND WHILE UNPLUGING A ?SANDER OFF THE WALL >> ELECTRIC SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2007 | 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 |
| PT HAD A BELT SANDER RUN OVER HIS FINGER. DX: A 2 CM. LACERATION DORSAL LEFT INDEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PIECE OF SAWDUST IN EYE WHILE USING FLOOR SANDER CORNEAL ABRASION DP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| AT HOME PT CUT R THUMB ON POWER SANDER 1/2 WEEK AGO,IT OPENED UP AGAIN R THUMB LACERATION, DX WOUND BLEEDING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power sanders |
| CONTUS L ANKLE; FLOOR SANDER SKIDDED ACROSS LIVING ROOM FLOOR & HIT ANK LE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2007 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT AT HOME USING A POWER SANDER INJ L INDEX FINGER/ DX L 2ND DIGIT AMPUTATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2007 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power sanders, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| CAUGHT FINGER UNDER ELECTRIC SANDER WHILE WORKING ON DECK OPEN FRACTURE 5TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders, Vises or workshop clamps |
| PT WAS SANDING ON A PIECE OF WOOD WHEN SANDER HIT CLAMP AND JUMPED HITT ING HAND CAUSING LACERATION. NOT LIKELY THAT INCIDENT WAS WORK RELATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2007 | Age: 67 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 |
| DX LEFT RING FINGER LACERATION: INJURED FINGER ON ELECTRIC BELT SANDER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | 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 FROM VIBRATING PALM SANDER " LAC'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2007 | Age: 43 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 CAUGHT FINGER ON BELT SANDER. DX: FX R FIFTH FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power sanders |
| RIGHT LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS FROM FLARE UP OF TENDONITIS OF RIGHT ELBOW FROM USING FLOOR SANDER APPROXIMATELY THREE WEEKS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2007 | 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: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power sanders |
| PT USING POWER SANDER ON BOARD WHEN IT KICKED BOARD OUT & IT HIT HIM I N STOMACH. D:ABDOMINAL TRAUMA WITH SMALL BOWEL INJURY. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/20/2007 | Age: 72 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 |
| 72 YO M LACERATION TO THUMB CUT ON BAND SANDER AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power sanders |
| OPEN FX LEFT INDEX FINGER. PT IN JURED FINGER WHEN USING A BELT SANDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power sanders |
| 49 YOM HAD LAC TO R THUMB FROM SANDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2007 | Age: 62 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 |
| AVULSION FINGER - 62 YO MALE INJURED LEFT POINTER FINGER WITH BELT SAND ER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2007 | Age: 68 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 |
| PT FX FINGER ON A WOOD SANDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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