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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 593
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/28/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDING & PIECE BROKE AGAINST RESISTANCE - PRESENTS WITH FORHEAD & HAN D LAC. FOREHEAD 4 CM, LAC HAND 4 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS USING GRINDER & IT KICKED BACK & HIT PT IN FACE AT HOME DX: ABRASION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| LACERATION TO FOREHEAD FROM GRINDER LAC FOREHEAD * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| USING GRINDER, IT JUMPED/ FACIAL LAC, NECK LAC AND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| RT CHEEK LACERATION: LT HAND LACERATION: USING ***D ANGLE GRINDERAT HOM E IN GARAGE WHEN IT "BLEW UP" CUT L SIDE OF FACE 3 CM, HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT WAS GRINDING DOWN PC OF METAL ON CAR AT HOME & A PC OF METAL FLEW INTO FACE DX: LACERATION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT LAC FACE WHILE USING GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PIECE FLEW OFF OF GRINDING WHEEL AND HIT PT IN NOSE -LOC PT HAS LAC T O NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 26 YO GRINDING SHEET METAL HIT IN FACE BY PIECE OF METAL LAC FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 17 YOM IN SHOP AT SCHOOL WHEN THE BLADE OFF OF A GRINDER CAME OFF AND H IT HIM IN THE LEFT CHEEK. DX: LACERATION LEFT CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT DOING YARD WORK-SHOVELING,DEVELOPED R WRIST PAIN,THEN HIT FACE INTO GRINDER WHEEL-ABRAS/LAC TO FOREHEAD,DX CELLULITIS,ABSCESS TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| USING GRINDER PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO FACE LAC EYEBROW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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