Accidents - Other portable or stationary power tools - Year 2005

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,521
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	98
16-25 years old:	174
26-50 years old:	1,559
50+ years old:	689

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Finger:	849	Hand:	506
Eyeball:	190	Toe:	166
Lower Leg:	143	Upper Trunk:	134
Shoulder:	113	Elbow:	112
Face:	83	Foot:	75
Upper Leg:	68	Lower Trunk:	45
Wrist:	15	All Of Body:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/30/2005	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PATIENT WAS USING A WOOD WORKING TOOL & ACCIDENTALLY AMPUTATED HIS LT INDEX FINGER. DX - LT INDEX FINGER JOINT AMPUTATION
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 12/19/2005	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Dislocation
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
33 YOM WAS USING JACKHAMMER AND JACKHAMMER SLIPPED CAUSING DISLOCATION TO LEFT RING FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2005	Age: 51 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: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT CUT L THUMB WITH DREMEL TOOL WHILE CUTTING PLYWOOD LACERATION TO L THUMB *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT WAS WORKING WITH *** TOOL AND METAL SHARDS YESTERDAY. NOW WITH EYE P AIN. D: CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2005	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
LAC L PALM WHILE USING AIR CHISEL @ HOME, WORKING ON HIS VEHICLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/05/2005	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
CONTUSION TO TOE WHEN STRUCK BY JACK HAMMER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2005	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
LACERATED FINGER ON A MOTORIZED WIRE WHEEL AT HOME PUNCTURE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2005	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
ELBOW PAIN-SINCE USING POWER TOOLS-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/05/2005	Age: 20 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: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
DROPPED A JACKHAMMER ON LEG. DX. R FOOT FX., R LEG ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/03/2005	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
HIT WRIST WITH JACK HAMMER 3 DAYS AGO. CONTUSION RIGHT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/30/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT LACERATED HAND ON A POWER *** TOOL AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/25/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
FX (TUFT) 1ST, 2ND & 3RD TOES RT FOOT W/ JACK HAMMER YESTERDAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/17/2005	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
SMASHED THUMB W/ AIR HAMMER WHILE FIXING TRUCK. CRUSH INJURY LT DISTAL PHALANX W/ FX & FOREIGN BODY DISTAL PHALANX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/17/2005	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT, WHO USED A JACK HAMMER 5 DAYS AGO, IS COMPLAINING OF BACK PAIN. D: BACK PAIN, NOS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2005	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
LAC TO FINGER WHEN USING A POWER TOOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2005	Age: 48 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT WALKED INTO JACK HAMMER SUSTAINING SCRATCH ON LEG DX: SUPERFICIAL ABRASIONS RIGHT LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/09/2005	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Paints, varnishes or shellacs
BLEPHARITIS EYE - PATIENT REPORTS USING POWER SCRAPER AND HAD PAINT CHI P GO INTO LEFT EYE - NOW HAS INFLAMMATORY REACTION TO PAINT CHIP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/09/2005	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
SMACHED WITH HYDRAULIC WOOD SPLITTER DX OPEN FRACTURE THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2005	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Ceilings and walls
LACERATION LEFT EYEBROW-SUS 1" LACEATION ABOVE LEFT EYE WHEN HE YANKED A POWER TOOL CORD OUT OF WALL AND IT STRUCK HIM ABOVE EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/27/2005	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
BURN THIGH - PATIENT PRESENTS WITH LEFT UPPER LEG - BURNED BY HEAT GUN APPROXIMATELY 1/2 HOUR AGO - MINOR BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2005	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT PULLING CEMENT MIXER CORD AND CORD SNAPPED BACKDX: ACUTE L SHOULDER STRAIN/TENDONTITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/22/2005	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT ACCIDENTALLY CUT FOOT ON JACK HAMMER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2005	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Handrails, railings or banisters
USING A TOOL TO TAKE OFF METAL RAILING TOOL KICKED ABRADED CONTUSION RI GHT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2005	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT.INJ.RT.2ND.FINGER AT HOME WHEN USING A POWER PLANER. DX; LAC.RT.2ND. FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2005	Age: 48 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: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT IS BEING SEEN FOR ELCTRICAL SHOCK WHEN USING A POWER HAMMER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/25/2005	Age: 36 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
SUST INJ TO R BIG TOE WHEN CEMENT MIXER FELL OVER AT HOME LANDING ON HE R FOOT DX FX R GREAT TOE ABRASIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/20/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Ceilings and walls
LEG CAUGHT BETWEEN A HYDRAULIC MACHINE AND THE WALL DX: L LOWER LEG LACS. X3 / L ANKLE CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/20/2005	Age: 48 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: Foreign Body
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT WAS BLASTING BRICKS WITH SAND BLASTER AND BLASTED HAND WITH THE SAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT STATES *** WHEEL HIT THUMB AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2005	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
LAC R PALM; WORKING WITH AIR IMPACT TOOL @ HOME WHICH SLIPPED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2005	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT WAS USING AIR CHISEL TO BREAK CONCRETE. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/21/2005	Age: 69 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: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF A FINGER FROM AN AIRWRENCH AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/20/2005	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
HIT WITH JACK HAMMER, C/O PAIN L SCAPULA, DX; SPRAIN SHOULDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2005	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Clothing accessories
PT WAS USING PIPE CLEANING MACHINE & RUBBER GLOVE WAS PULLED IN. DX: L FOURTH FINGER TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION, MULT FINGER FX'S/LACS.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/11/2005	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
CUT FINGER ON AN ELECTRIC WOOD CUTTER LACERATION LEFT THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2005	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT LACERATED FINGER ON A POWER TOOL AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/19/2005	Age: 30 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: Other portable or stationary power tools
PATIENT COMPLAINING OF BURNING & PAIN IN LEFT EYE AFTER HE FELT A PIECE OF CEMENT GO INTO IT WHILE JACKHAMMERING. DX - CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2005	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: Elbow		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
ELOPEMENT: NOT WORKERS COMP STATES HIGH PRESSURE AIR HOSE "GOT AWAY FROM ME" STRUCK RT ELBOW AND RT KNEE NO LOCATION NOTED
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 05/03/2005	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
CONTUSION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK BY A JACK HAMMER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2005	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
FRACTURE FINGER - 59 YOM WAS USING A JACKHAMMER THIS MORNING AT HOME AN D JAMMED HIS RIGHT RING FINGER AND SCRAPED HIS LEFT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2005	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
CUT TO HAND WHILE USING *** TOOL AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2005	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT WAS JACK HAMMERING AT NEIGHBOR'S DX: R ELBOW TENDONITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2005	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT'S FINGER WAS SQUEEZED IN PNEUMATIC SQUEEZER. DX: TUFT FX/CONT R THIRD FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/04/2005	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
USING JACK HAMMER ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/29/2005	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
35 YO MALE WAS USING JACK HAMMER AND IT SLIPPED AND HIT GROIN AND CUT LEFT RING FINGER - PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT 4TH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2005	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT AT HOME WORKING ON CAR, USING AIR PRESSURIZED RATCHET, PIECE OF META L FLEW INTO RT EYE. FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2005	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
LUMBAR PAIN. PT USED A JACK HAMMER AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2005	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT CUT FINGER ON WOOD JOINER AT SCHOOL DX: RT MIDDLE FINGER LACERATION / TUFT FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/2005	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT LACERATED FINGER ON A POWER TOOL AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/15/2005	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
PT HAS BEEN USING ROTO HAMMER. DX: R SHOULDER STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2005	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
NAIL IN THE LEFT HAND AFTER HE WAS USING AN AIR HAMMER AND SLIPPED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/29/2005	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
90 POUND JACK HAMMER BLADE CAME OFF AND HIT BIG TOE OF 46 YO MALE FRACTURE TOE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/22/2005	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other portable or stationary power tools
LACERATION LOWER LEG - 63 YOF STRUCK THE BACK OF HER LEFT LOWER LEG ON A POWERED SHOVEL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/12/2005	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: Other portable or stationary power tools
LT EYE FB-@ HOME-USING A DRUMEL TOOK ON METAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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