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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,125
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2007 | Age: 22 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: Tools |
| CONTUSION HAND - 22 YO MALE STATES HE INJURED HIS RIGHT HAND WHILE WORK ING AT HOME - HAND WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN A TOOL AND A HARD SURFACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tools |
| RIGHT HAND STR. PT STRAINED HAND PUTTING GARAGE TOOLS AWAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2007 | Age: 60 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: Tools |
| FELL ONTO ?CARPENTERY FLAT BAR CUTTING HAND >>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PATIENT WAS CUTTING FIREWOOD, INJURED RIGHT INDEX FINGER. DX-LACERATION AND CONTUSION TO HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2007 | Age: 40 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: Tools |
| FX 5TH METACARPAL CLOSED RT HAND: DIGGING A DITCH AT HOME, INJURED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tools |
| 54 YOM INJ HAND USING YARD TOOL SPRAIN HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PT SUST LAC TO HAND ON TOOL AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools, Insect induced injuries |
| PT WITH POSSIBLE BUG BITE TO HAND. HAD BEEN WORKING IN YARD TRIMMING GR ASS. D: CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2007 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools, Fences or fence posts |
| LEFT HAND LAC, PT WAS CUTTING TREE LIMBS OFF FENCE AND CUT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2007 | Age: 45 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: Tools, Sinks |
| WHILE "RODDING" A SINK, IT SNAPPED BACK AND HIT PTS HAND(ROD), LACERATI ON TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PT WAS CUT ON A TOOL IN GARAGE. DX: L HAND 3 CM LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools, Licensed two-wheeled motor vehicles |
| 25 YOM SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT HAND FROM A TOOL WHILE WORKING ON HIS MOTORCYCLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools |
| INJ FINGER WHILE GARDENING OVER THE WKEND, NOW C PREGRESSIVE HAND REDNE SS&SWELLING " CELLULITIS'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 64 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: Tools |
| ACC CUT HAND WHILE CUTTING THE HEDGES "LAC'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| LACERATES HAND USING A DIGGING IRON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Tools, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| MC FX-CUTTING DOWN A TREE-GOT HIT W/A LIMB-@ NEIGHBOR'S |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tools |
| CUTTING WOOD AT HOME AND PIECE HIT HAND RB CONTUSION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Tools |
| FIST PUNCHED CONCRETE WHILE USING TOOL, DXR HAND FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 50 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: Tools, Poles |
| PT LACERATED HAND WHILE USING A HOLE DIGGER WHILE PUTTING IN METAL POST AT HOME. D: HAND LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2007 | Age: 57 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: Tools |
| 57 YO INJURED HAND ON HOLE DIGGER LAC HAND COMPLICATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2007 | Age: 12 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: Laceration |
| Product: Tools, Benches |
| FRIEND CARVING BENCH, PT PUT HAND ACC IN THE WAY, CUTTING IT ON A WOOD EN CARVING TOOL " LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tools |
| PT STATES SHE HIT HER R HAND ON A CHERRY PICKER TODAY. DX. CONT R HAND . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2007 | Age: 47 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: Tools |
| PT FELL WHILE WALKING WITH HAND TOOL AND HIT HAND. NOW HAND PAINFUL AND SWOLLEN. LPTMS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/15/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PT WAS USING A POST HOLE DIGGER AND CUT HAND DX: HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| LACERATED HAND ON UNIDENTIFIED HAND TOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2007 | Age: 57 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: Tools |
| PT GOT SPLINTER IN HAND 3 WEEKS AGO WHEN CHOPPING WOOD. PULLED PART OF IT OUT. CONTINUED PAIN. D: FOREIGN BODY SPLINTER REMOVED, HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Tools |
| PT WAS CUTTING WOOD & A LOG ROLLED ONTO HAND AT HOME INJURING FINGER DX: CRUSH INJURY RIGHT RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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