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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 497
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 50 Y/O M WAS GRINDING GRANITE 1 DAY BEFORE DX: ABRASION,DERMATITIS, CELLULITIS OF FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2009 | Age: 56 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 |
| FOREHEAD LAC-CUT ON METAL IN GRINDER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2009 | Age: 31 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 WAS USING A GRINDER AND LAC CHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| STRUCK IN FACE BY GRINDING WHEEL/ FACIAL NASAL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2009 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT PRESENT TO ER AFTER WALKED INTO A STEEL GRINDER INJURING FOREHEAD- DX- FOREHAED LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2009 | Age: 56 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 |
| GRINDER TOOL KICKED BACK STRIKING RIGHT CHEEK FACIAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2009 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PARTIAL THICKNESS BURNS OF THE FACE:GRINDING METAL THURS. WEARING HIS OXYGEN,SPARK FLEW OFF GRINDER,IGNITED OXYGEN,FACIAL BURNS, NO FIRE DEPT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2009 | Age: 42 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 |
| GRINDER CAME BACK AND STRUCK CHIN/ CHIN LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| P DX LACERATION OF SCALP/FOREHEAD - S/P PT C/P PIECE OF METAL GRINDER BROKE OF MACHINE AND HIT TO HIS FACE AND HEAD WHILE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2009 | Age: 39 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 |
| WAS GRINDING WHEN GRINDING WHEEL BROKE AND HIT PT IN FOREHEAD DX- LAC TO F/H |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2009 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT SUSTAINED UPPER EYE LID ABRASION WHILE GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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