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Accidents - Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches - Year 2002 - Hand

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,266
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Date: 11/29/2002Age: 20 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WORKING ON CAR WRENCH SLIPPED HIT HAND DX BROKEN HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/10/2002Age: 30 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT WORKING ON THE WHEELWELL OF HIS CAR AT HOME WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED SUSTAINED A CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/10/2002Age: 32 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Vises or workshop clamps
CONTUS R HAND; WRENCEH SLIPPED & HAND HIT WALL PER MD, SLIPPED OFF VISE PER RN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/09/2002Age: 36 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
CONTUSION HAND - 36 YOM USING A WRENCH AND IT SLIPPED, C/O PAIN RIGHT H AND AND ALSO WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/26/2002Age: 20 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT MECHANICWORK ON MOTORCYCLE AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND CUT RT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/02/2002Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT WAS WORKING ON HIS ENGINE AND SCRAPED HAND WHILE WORKING WITH A WRENCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/29/2002Age: 22 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
CHANGING FLAT TIRE ON CAR HAND SLIPPED OFF WRENCH HIT PAVEMENT DX CONTUSION TO HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/22/2002Age: 17 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
LAC R HAND; WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE HE WAS WORKING ON HIS CAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/18/2002Age: 55 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT STATES THE HANDLE FROM A WRENCH SPUN & STRUCK HIM IN HAND WHILE HE WAS WORKING ON HIS TRUCK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/15/2002Age: 14 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT HIT WITH A WRENCH THAT BROKE; RT METACARPAL FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/06/2002Age: 57 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
CUT HAND WITH A PLIER DX: HAND LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/01/2002Age: 72 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Lawn mowers
PT WAS WORKING ON A LAWN MOWER WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED CUTTING HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/26/2002Age: 48 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
LT HAND PUNCTURE WOUND-INJURED ON ALLEN WRENCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/26/2002Age: 32 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
RT HAND LAC-AT HOME-WORKING ON HIS CAR-DROPPED WRENCH & CUT HAND ON CAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/23/2002Age: 58 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PATIENT WAS WORKING ON HIS TRUCK, WRENCH SLIPPED CUTTING HIS HAND. DX-2.5CM LACERATION LEFT HAND, FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/16/2002Age: 67 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT LACERATED HAND ON METAL PLIERS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/01/2002Age: 23 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
LEFT HAND CONTUSION.PT WAS USING A RATCHET AND IT SLIPPED AND FELL ON H AND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/21/2002Age: 76 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Other
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HAD PLIERS IN HIS HAND, WASP WAS STINGING OTHER HAND, HIT WASP AND SCRA TCHED SELF WITH PLIERS. NOW WITH SWOLLEN HAND. CELLULITIS L HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/18/2002Age: 68 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Lawn mowers
DX LACERATION LEFT HAND: SLIPPED WHILE WORKING ON LAWN MOWER AT HOME, DROPPED RATCHET ONTO HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/17/2002Age: 37 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WORKING ON MOTORCYCLE YESTERDAY, WRENCH SLIPPED OFF AND HE HIT THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT HAND ON FOOT PEG. DX FRACTURE RIGHT HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/17/2002Age: 45 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
45-YOM SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF HIS HAND AS A RESULT OF STRIKING HIS H AND WITH A WRENCH AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/17/2002Age: 39 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
FLAP LAC R HAND;ABRAS R HAND/39YOM USING WRENCH AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND STRUCK HAND. HAS MULT LAC'S.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/12/2002Age: 26 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT SUST CONTUSION TO HAND WHILE USING WRENCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/11/2002Age: 59 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
RT HAND CONTUSION.PT HAD A WRENCH SLIP AND INJURE HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/06/2002Age: 22 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WORKING ON CAR, WRENCH SLIPPED, HAND STRUCK CAR DX: LACERATION TO HAN D
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/24/2002Age: 55 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WORKING ON CAR WITH WRENCH WHEN IT SLIPPED HITTING RIGHT HAND ON CARALT ERNATOR DX: FRACTURED 5TH METACARPAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/22/2002Age: 53 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WORKING ON TRACTOR AT HOME, WRENCH SLIPPEDCUTTING HAND ON TRACTOR. DX; LACERATION HAND. FARM TRACTOR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/21/2002Age: 24 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WRENCH SLIPPED DX. HAND CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/14/2002Age: 39 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PATIENT CUT HIS LEFT HAND ON A WRENCE WHILE AT AN AUCTION.DX-2 CM LACER ATION PALM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/28/2002Age: 25 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
25 Y.O. W MALE W/FX HAND. PT WAS WORKING ON HIS CAR & WRENCH SLIPPED @H OME. E9179
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/27/2002Age: 73 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WORKING ON CAR AND WRENCH AND GEAR KNOW CRUSHED HAND. DX. LAC L HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/27/2002Age: 21 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WAS WORKING ON A TRUCK AT HOME AND WRENCH KICKED BACK AND HIT HIS RTHAN D. 2CM HAND LACERATION. DO NOT CONTACT PT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/25/2002Age: 27 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PATIENT CUT HIS HAND ON THE CAR WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE WORKINGON HIS CAR AT HOME. DX-LACERATION LEFT HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/21/2002Age: 72 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HAND LAC FROM WRENCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/09/2002Age: 39 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT WORKING ON CAR, WRENCH SLIPPED & INJURED RT HAND. CLOSED FX DISTAL R T 5TH METACARPAL@
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/22/2002Age: 24 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WORKING ON CAR-WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIT HAND CONTUSION HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/15/2002Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
RT HAND FRACTURE.PT WAS USING A WRENCH ON CAR AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND HA ND WENT CRASHING INTO CAR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/05/2002Age: 25 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
LT HAND LAC-AT SISTER'S HOUSE-WORKING ON CAR-PLIERS SLIPPED AND CUT HAN D
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/03/2002Age: 80 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT USING A PAIR OF PLIERS AT HOME FORCEFULLY WHEN HE CAUGHT THE SKIN IN HIS LEFT HAND PUNCTURE WOUND HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/30/2002Age: 41 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WHILE USING A WRENCH TO FIX A CAR ENGINE THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE STRUCK HIS HAND ON THE ENGINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/28/2002Age: 35 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
CONTUSION HAND - VICTIM INJURED AT HOME WHILE REPAIRING HIS CAR - HIT R IGHT HAND WITH A WRENCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/27/2002Age: 28 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HIT BACK OF RIGHT HAND WITH WRENCH HE WAS WORKING WITH, CUT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/26/2002Age: 25 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
WRENCH SLIPPED DX. HAND CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/16/2002Age: 57 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PT'S HAND SLIPPED W/WRENCH. DX: L HAND LAC 6 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/05/2002Age: 19 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
HIT SELF ON RIGHT HAND WITH A WRENCH HE WAS USING, CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/01/2002Age: 29 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Garage doors
PT WAS HIT W/WRENCH WHILE INSTALLING GARAGE DOOR. DX: CONT R HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/08/2002Age: 46 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Crushing
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PIPE CUTTING MACHINE CRUSHED RT. HAND DX: CRUSH INJURY W/ LACERATION RT. HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/23/2002Age: 18 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
LAC LT HAND--18 YOM FELL WHILE WALKING INTO BAR. A TOOL(WRENCH) HE WAS USING GOUGED INTO HIS SKIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/15/2002Age: 32 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches
PAIN TO R HAND.TWISTING WRENCH,HIT HAND.DX BOXER'S FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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