Accidents - Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers - Years 1997-2010 - Face

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,287
See also: Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 2006:	159
Year 2007:	393
Year 2008:	593
Year 2009:	497
Year 2010:	643

Accidents - Age:

16-25 years old:	305
26-50 years old:	1,238
50+ years old:	743

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 11/11/2010	Age: 36 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
36YOM SUSTAINED FACIAL LACERATION WHEN THE GRINDER HE WAS USING SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS@
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2010	Age: 48 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
PT WAS USING A GRINDER A BUSHING CAME OFF AND HIT PT IN NOSE LACERATI ON NOSE 48YOM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/25/2010	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
58 YOM HIT FACE UP AGAINST A GRINDER; CUT CHEEK DX: FACIAL LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2010	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
42 YOF WAS HIT BY PIECE OF METAL FROM GRINDER. DX: FOREHEAD LAC 4 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/2010	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
62YOM MAJOR FACIAL TRAUMA WORKING WITH GRINDER SOMETHING FLEW BACK HITT ING PT IN THE FACE TRANSFERED TO TRAUMA CENTER*
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/08/2010	Age: 32 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
32 Y/O/M INJURED FACE ON GRINDER AT HOME DX/ FACIAL LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2010	Age: 64 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
64YOM WITH LAC TO FACE FROM A GRINDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2010	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
37 YOM INJURED FACE FROM DISC FROM GRINDER. DX-ACUTE FACIAL INJURY, NASAL FRACTURE WITH LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/2010	Age: 68 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
LACERATED FOREHEAD WITH GRINDER LAC FOREHEAD * 68 Y/O W/M
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/23/2010	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
26YOM LAC FACE- DEBRIS FROM GRINDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2010	Age: 50 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
50YOM, USING GRINDER AT HOME, BLADE SPLIT AND FLEW OFF HITTING PT IN FA CE, LAERATION TO FACE UNDER LOWER LIP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/03/2010	Age: 21 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
21YOM LACERATION TO FACE LYING ON BACK USING A GRINDER GRINDER KICKED B ACK HITTING PT IN THE FACE*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/23/2010	Age: 83 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
83 YOM HIT IN HEAD W/GRINDER AT HOME DX: FOREHEAD LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/03/2010	Age: 22 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
22 YOM, USING HAND HELD GRINDER IT KICKED BACK, FACE LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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

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

Date: 11/20/2007	Age: 49 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: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts
EYELID FOREIGN BODY: GRINDING PIECE OF METAL OFF OF A CAR, RT EYE IRRITATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2007	Age: 26 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
PATIENT CUT FOREHEAD ON A GRINDER THAT SLIPPED WHILE HE WAS UNDERNEATH REPAIRING IT. DX-LACERATION FACE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2007	Age: 18 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
18 YO M CONTUSION TO EYELID AFTER GINDING AT HOME*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2007	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
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 HIT FACE ON GRINDER DX: LEFT FACE ABRASIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2007	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
47 YO MALE CUT NOSE ON PORTABLE GRINDER LACERATION FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2007	Age: 39 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
CHIN LAC-USING A GRINDER THAT KICKED OUT HITTING CHIN-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/2007	Age: 78 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
STRUCK IN HEAD WITH HAND HELD GRINDER TRAUMATIC ABRASION NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2007	Age: 79 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
WAS USING A GRINDER AND GOT HIT IN FACE SUSTAINING A LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2007	Age: 52 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
52 YOM HAD LAC TO CHEEK FROM PIECE OF GRINDING WHEEL WHICH BROKE OFF FACE LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2006	Age: 39 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
FELT SPARK FROM GRINDER HIT BRIDGE OF NOSE,LATER CAUSING BLEEDING. DX M INOR ABRASION OF NOSE#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/20/2006	Age: 64 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 HAD JUST FINISHED REPLACING THE HEAD ON A GRINDER AND WHEN HE TURNED IT ON IT EXPLODED. DX: LACERATION OF CHEEK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2006	Age: 43 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
GRINDER BROKE/CHIN LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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