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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,198
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Floors or flooring materials |
| CRUSHED R HAND BETWEEN WRENCH AND FLOOR DX: R HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| WORKING ON HIS CAR AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND HAND HIT GROUND HAND CONTUSIO N |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PIPE WRENCH PINCHED PT'S HAND. DX: R HAND CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2006 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| INJURED HAND WITH WRENCH CONTUSION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Boats and boating |
| PT WAS WORKING ON SAILBOAT AND AND LEFT HAND AND FOREARM WAS STRUCK BY A WRENCH. PT SUSTAINED CONTUSION TO HAND AND FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2006 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts |
| LACERATES HAND WITH WRENCH WHILE WORKING ON HIS TRUCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts |
| WRENCH SLIPPED AND CUT RT HAND WHILE WORKING ON CAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT INJURED WHILE USING WRENCH BOXENS FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT CUT HAND ON PLIER. DX: LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/28/2006 | Age: 25 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT SUSTAINED INJURY TO HAND WITH PLIERS ONE WEEK AGO. PAIN, REDNESS. D: CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| 39YOM HAND CONT WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT HIT HAND WITH A PIPE WRENCH 3 DAYS AGO, NOW WITH PAIN & NUMBNESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Floors or flooring materials |
| HAND SLIPPED OFF WRENCH AND HAND HIT THE FLOOR METACARPAL FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PULLING WRENCH WHICH SLIPPED/HAND CT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PATIENT CUT LEFT HAND ON A WIRE CUTTER. DX-LACERATIONLEFT PALM, 4CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2006 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| LACERATED HAND ON A WRENCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2006 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT.INJ.L.PALM AT HOME WHEN SON THREW PLIERS & HE TRIED TO CATCH THEM. D X; NON SUTURED LAC.L.PALM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT HIT HAND W/A WRENCH WHILE WORKING ON TRUCK. DX: L HAND CONT, OLD FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING A LAC TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2006 | Age: 78 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HIT RIGHT HAND WITH A WRENCH. DX: ABRASION AND CONTUSION RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT BRUISED HAND WHEN WORKING ON HIS CAR AND WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING HAND TO HIT FLYWALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2006 | 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: Fracture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| WRENCHED SLIPPED AND HIT PTS HAND, FX TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE WORKING ON CAR MOTOR HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2006 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| ? CHIP FX, CONT & LAC L HAND/70YOM AT HOME WORKING ON ENGINE WITH WRENC H WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED AND STRUCK HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2006 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| CUT R HAND W/WRENCH AT HOME DX: LAC R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HAND SLIPPED OFF A WRENCH RIGHT HAND SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT HIT IN HAND WITH PIPE WRENCH BY SISTER, HAND INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2006 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Lawn mowers |
| WAS USING A WRENCH TO CHANGE BLADES ON A LAWN MOWER; CUT HAND. ABRASION OF RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2006 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Workshop furnishings |
| PT WAS USING A WRENCH AT HOME, SLIPPED AND HIT HAND ON BENCH DX: RT HAND CONTUSION, LT RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Tractors |
| LACERATION OF RT HAND: USING RATCHET WORKING ON RIDING TRACTOR, HAND SLIPPED, BANGED AGAINST HARD SURFACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2006 | Age: 44 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: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts |
| FIXING A CAR, HOLDING A WRECH THAT SLIPPED CUTTING HAND " LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2006 | Age: 34 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| CONTUSION HAND - PATIENT REPORTS INJURY SUSTAINED WHEN WORKING ON A CAR THIS AM - GRIP SLIPPED WIHILE TURNING WRENCH & HAND HIT ENGINE BLOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2006 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| L HAND LAC/53YOM ABOUT 15 MIN AGO CUT L PALM WITH WIRE CUTTERS AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| INJURY AND SWELLING R HAND WHILE WORKING ON CAR AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE HIT HAND ON FIREWALL. DX. FX R #5 METACARPAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| 32 YOM HIT LEFT HAND WITH A PIPE WRENCH CAUSING FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HURT HAND WHILE USING A WRENCH DX: L HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Stationary power drills and accessories |
| PT WS AT HOME WHEN HE GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT BETWEEN A WRENCH AND A DRILL PRESS CAUSING A CRUSHING INJURY TO HIS RT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| CUT HAND ON WRENCH LAC. HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2006 | Age: 19 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT'S HAND SLIPPED OFF LUGWRENCH AND IT HIT HIS HAND. DX: CONTUSION HA ND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2006 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HIT HAND WITH A WRENCH AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2006 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| DX RIGHT HAND CONTUSION: HIT HAND WITH WRENCH AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT WORKING ON THEIR OWN CAR AT HOME, WRENCH SLIPPED AND PT HIT HAND ON UNDERCARRIAGE OF VAN DX: LAC R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2006 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts |
| INJURED HAND WITH A WRENCH TRYING TO TAKE BATTERY OUT OF CAR DX: R HAND SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Drills |
| PT WAS HOLDING A WRENCH AND IT SLIPPED AND PERSON HOLDING DRILL DRILLED PT ON HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2006 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PATIENT HIT HAND WITH WRENCH; HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HAND CRUSHED BY WRENCH DX HAND CRUSH INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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