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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,433
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| HAND LAC, PT CUT HAND WHEN USING A TOOL AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/29/2008 | 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 |
| HAND LAC, PT CUT HAND WHEN USING A SCRAPER TOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools, General purpose household cleaners |
| PT WAS AT A FRIENDS SHOP CLEANING SOME TOOLS WITH A CLEANER AND DEVELOP ED REDNESS TO HANDS CELLULITIS TO HANDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2008 | Age: 21 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 |
| PT WAS CHOPPING WOOD AND INJURED HAND AT HOME DX: LACERATION LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2008 | Age: 21 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 |
| DX LAC HAND-COMPLICAT: CARV'G WOOD, CLEAN TOOLS, SLIP'D SUSTAIN'G SUPERFICIAL LAC ACROSS PALM OR R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| ACCIDENTALLY CUT WEB SPACE OF (L) HAND W/A BORING TOOL----LAC (L) HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 19 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 |
| MILD EDEMA WEB SPACE RT HAND: AT HOME CUTTING WOOD YESTERDAY, SWELLING SNUFF BOX AREA, HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| LT HAND SPRAIN: DIGGING HER SEWER LINE, NOW HAVING PAIN LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | 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: Puncture |
| Product: Tools |
| DX LWOBS: PUNCTURE WD L HAND, POSS INJ MULTI-TOOL (GERBER) |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 40 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, Motor vehicles or parts |
| ACCIDENTALLY CUT HAND ON A METAL TOOL WHILE CHANGING A TIRE TODAY >>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| 46YOF WAS HOME HELPING HUSBAND IN THE YARD THEY WERE USING A POST DIGGER,ACCIDENTLY LACERATED HAND ON DIGGER;RT HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2008 | 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: Tools |
| STATES HE CAUGHT HIS RT HAND ON A STEEL PRESS AT HIS FATHERS SHOP AT HIS HOME. CONTUSION TO RT HAND* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 14 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: Tools |
| R HAND CRUSH INJ/14YOM GOT HAND SLAMMED BETWEEN 2 PIECES OF WOOD WHILE SPLITTING WOOD AT COUSINGS HOUSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| CUT TO HAND ON UNKNOWN TOOL DX: HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PATIENT FELL ON A GARDEN TOOL LIN HIS GARDEN. DX-LAC. LEFT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PT CUT HAND ON A GARDEN TOOL AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Tools |
| PT HIT LT HAND WITH A TOOL DX: CRUSH INJ LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| LAC TO HAND, 54 YOM, WAS CUTTING & BREAKING TREE BRANCHES, CUT HAND ON SMALL PART OF BROKEN BRANCH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PT CUT HAND ON AN ANGLE IRON AT HOME TODAY DX// LAC LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 33 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 CUTTING A PC OF METAL WITH A TOOL AT HOME & IT SPUN & HIT PT ON HAND DX: LACERATION LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| LAC TO WEBSPACE OF R HAND, USING STEEL POST HOLE DRIVER & DEVICE CAME DOWN ON HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2008 | 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: Tools |
| LIFTING TOOL AND IT SLIPPED AND CUT HIS HAND. DX LACERATION R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 29 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: Tools |
| HIT HAND ON TOOL LAST PM. DX HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| PATIENT TRIPPED AND FELL ON TOOLS AT HOME. DX-LACERATION LEFT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| CUT HAND WITH TOOL;DX LACERATED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | 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: Crushing |
| Product: Tools |
| PT INJURED HAND WHILE USING A POST HOLE DIGGER. DX: CRUSH INJURY TO THE LEFT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Tools |
| PT SUSTAINED PUNCTURE WOUND TO HAND FROM CARVING TOOL WHILE WORKING ON AN ART PROJECT. LPTMS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/20/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tools |
| 28 YO MALE CUT HAND ON TOOL LACERATION LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2008 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tools |
| SLAMMED HAND DOWN WHILE WORKING WITH A TOOL, ?MECH >> CONTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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