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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,032
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/07/2010 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| 21YOM USING DRILL AND IT KICKED BACK HITTING PT IN (L) FOREARM DX;# CONTUSION (L) FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2009 | Age: 28 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE USING A DRILL IT SLIPPED HITTING L LOWER ARM/ DX FB L FOREARM (POSS WOOD SPLINTER) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2009 | Age: 73 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: Fracture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| DX FX DISTAL RADIUS/FX DISTAL ULNA: CUTS TO THUMB & FOREARM, W US'G POWER DRILL WHEN "IT KCIKED BACK" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2009 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, Fishing |
| SPRAIN FOREARM - 51 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH LEFT ARM PAIN - WAS ICE FISHI NG JUST PTA AND WHILE USING AN AUGER THE STRAP CAUGHT ARM & TWISTED IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT WAS USING A DRILL AND IT DROPPED AND HIT ARM/ LAC TO FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 41 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: Fracture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| 41 YO M FRACTURED FOREARM USING HEAVY DUTY DRILL IT CAUGHT AND TWISTED INJURING ARM* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL AND IT SLIPPED SUSTAINED A FOREARM LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME AND SUSTAINED A PW TO RIGHT LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PUNCTURE WOUND FOREARM FROM A DRILL BIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| C/O PT STATES ACCIDENTLY HAD DRILL BIT GO THROUGH ARM DX LT LOWER ARM PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL; AND THE BIT WENT INTO RIGHT LOWER ARM PW ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2005 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PATIENT WAS USING A CORDED POWER DRILL, WRAPPED CORD AROUND ARM, AND LO ST CONTROL OF DRILL. DX; MULTIPLE SKIN TEARS ON FOREARMS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2005 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, Fences or fence posts |
| PT WAS WORKING ON FENCE C A DRILL THAT SLIPPED&WENT THRU F.ARM SUSTAINE D" F.ARM PW" Z |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2004 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| 46 YOM TWISTED L FOREARM AT HOME WHEN A DRILL BIT GOT STUCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, Ceilings and walls |
| PT C/O CUT TO FOREARM. PT WAS DRILLING A WHOLE IN THE WALL AND DRILL SL IPPED AND LAC FOREARM. DX LAC FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, Pipes |
| 25 YOM WAS WORKING AT HOME WITH A PORTABLE POWER DRILL; THE DRILL HIT A PIPE AND BIT OF DRILL WENT INTO HIS FOREARM. LACERATION, LT FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2001 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2000 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2000 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/1997 | 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: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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