Accidents - Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers - Year 2008 - Hand

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,735
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

16-25 years old:	224
26-50 years old:	786
50+ years old:	725

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/10/2008	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LACERATION R HAND WHILE USING A GRINDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2008	Age: 37 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT INJURED HAND WITH A WORKSHOP GRINDER. DX: RIGHT HAND LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2008	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT HAND ON GRINDER, DX; LAC. HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
31 Y/O C/O HAND PAIN GRINDER WHEEL FELL APART AND CUT HIS HAND DX-LAC. HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2008	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CUT HAND WITH A GRINDER AT HOME TODAY DX// RIGHT HAND LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2008	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: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LT HAND LACERATION: TRIED TO USE GRINDER AT HOME, CUT HAND, 1.5 CM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/18/2008	Age: 50 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
DX LAC HAND: PT CUT R 4TH FINGER W AN ANGLE METAL GRINDER; +DEEP LAC PRESENT & ACTIVE BLDG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2008	Age: 84 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT HAND ON GRINDING WHEEL, 2" LAC TO PALMAR SURFACE NEAR THUMB. LAC L T HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/15/2008	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
22YMC USING A GRINDER AND CUT HAND/LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
METAL FROM GRINDER IN HAND FB HAND/CELLULITIS *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
45 YOM CUT THIRD AND FOURTH FINGERS ON GRINDER TOOL AT HOME LACERATION HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2008	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
USING A GRINDER WHEN EDGE OF GRINDER CUT THE TOP OF (L) HAND DX- HAND LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/07/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Safes
PT USING A GRINDER TO GRIND METAL WHEN GRINDER BLEW UP. LATER DISCOVERE D PT USING GRINDER TO GRIND A SAFE OPEN. D:2ND METACARPAL FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/07/2008	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
WAS USING A GRINDER WHICH CAUGHT (L) HAND HAS LAC TO PALM OF HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/02/2008	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT INJURED L WRIST/LOWER FOREARM, HAND W/GRINDER AT HOME. DX. LAC L HA ND, TENDON INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/03/2008	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT'S HAND SLIPPED INTO GRINDER. DX: R HAND LAC 4 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/12/2008	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PATIENT STATES SOMEBODY WAS HOLDING THE METAL GRINDER AND ACCIDEN- TALLY CUT HIM VERY DEEP. DX-RIGHT HAND LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/11/2008	Age: 34 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
RT HAND LACERATION: USING *** GRINDER, "HAD HAND IN WRONG PLACE"PIECE WENT BACK ON HIM, CUT KNUCKLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2008	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CUT HAND ON GRINDER 4 DAYS AGO. HAND SWOLLEN. D: HAND CELLULITIS. PT LEFT AMA.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 07/21/2008	Age: 91 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LAC TO L HAND ON GRINDER DX; L HAND LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/17/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LACERATION TO HAND ON GRINDER HAND LACERATION #
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/03/2008	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT HAND ON GRINDER/ LAC RT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2008	Age: 69 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF A HAND FROM A GRINDER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
61YOM WAS HOME USING A WHEEL GRINDER WHEN IT BROKE FLEW UP STRIKING RIGHT HAND;HAND LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/02/2008	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT HAND ON GRINDER. DX HAND LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT HAND ON A GRINDER. DX. HAND LACERATION.*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2008	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
HIT HAND WITH GRINDER/HAND LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2008	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CUT HAND ON GRINDER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2008	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: Other
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
C/O WORSENING HAND PAIN, SWELLING&REDNESS STATUS POST INJUREY SUSTAINED A WEEK AGO ON A GRINDING WHEEL>> CELLULITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT HAND BY A GRINDING DISC. DX L HAND LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/12/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT HAND USING GRINDER AT HOME LAC HAND *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/11/2008	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING METAL AT HOME AND CUT HAND DX/ LEFT HAND LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/05/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT SUSTAINED LAC TO HAND FROM A GRINDER*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/17/2008	Age: 36 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LACERATION HAND - 36 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH CUT TO TOP OF RIGHT HAND - H IT HAND AGAINST GRINDING WHEEL AT HOME - ZIP WHEEL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/17/2008	Age: 56 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
USING MA MGRINDING STONE WHICH BLEW APART INJURED HAND. DX-LACERATION RIGHT HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/01/2008	Age: 67 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT STRUCK L HAND ON A GRINDER, CAUSED ABRAISIONS TO HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/29/2008	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
AT HOME PT USING METAL GRINDER SLIPPED,HIT R CHEST & TOP L HAND DX L EXTENSOR TENDON LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/19/2008	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT HAS AVULSION TO HAND WHILE USING A GRINDING TOOL. D: HAND AVULSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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