Accidents - Power lawn mowers - 50+ years old - Years 1997-2010 - Head

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,674
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1999:	38
Year 2000:	85
Year 2001:	110
Year 2002:	76
Year 2003:	77
Year 2004:	71
Year 2005:	183
Year 2007:	154
Year 2008:	304
Year 2009:	215
Year 2010:	356

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 09/19/2010	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
61 Y/O MALE MOWING LAWN & HIT HEAD ON A DEAD PINE TREE BRANCH AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/20/2010	Age: 71 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Power lawn mowers
71YOF WAS MOWING YARD, GOT TOO HOT DX. HEADACHE. VOMITING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2010	Age: 56 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
56 YOF MOWING YARD, FELL AND HIT HEAD DX: SUBDURAL HEMATOMA, L ANKLE FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/13/2010	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
63 Y/O MALE WAS MOWING LAWN & BECAME UNSTEADY & PASSED OUT ON GROUND HITTING HEAD DX: LACERATION TO SCALP/ SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/08/2010	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
67 Y/O MALE MOWING LAWN & HIT TOP OF HEAD ON TREE BRANCH AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/2010	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
56YOWM PT HIT IN HEAD W/LAWNMOWER PIPE WHILE WORKING ON THE LAWNMOWER A T HOME. DX. HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/20/2009	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT WITH SCALP LACERATION AFTER ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT PT WHILE PT WAS MOW ING. DX LACERATION SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/02/2009	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
HIT HEAD ON LAWN MOWER. DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2009	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
ACC STRUCK HEAD ONTO A TREE BRANCH WHILE MOWING THE LAWN >>SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2009	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
TRIPPED&FELL HITTING FACE/HEAD ONTO THEHANDLE OF THE LAWN MOWER >>CHI/FACIAL LAC/KNEE ABRS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/12/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
FELL BACKWARDS WHILE MOWING YARD DX: CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2009	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
C/O DIZZINESS AFTER ACC STRUCK FOREHEAD AGAINST THE LAWN MOWER HANDLE >>CHI/CONTS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/27/2009	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power lawn mowers
52YO BLACK FEMALE MOWING THE LAWN AT HOME SLIPPED-HIT HEAD ON WALL,MOWE R LANDED ON TOP PT,NO LAC FROM BLADES,DX HEAD CONTU,CERVICAL STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/07/2008	Age: 70 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PRESENTS WITH A CUT ONTO HEAD AFTER TRIPPING&FALLING WHILE MOWING HER L AWN HITITNG HEAD>> LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT TRYING TO PULL START HER LAWN MOWER AND LOST BALANCE AND FELL STRUCK HEAD SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/17/2008	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PATIENT WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOAD A MOWER OVER AN INCLINE AND IT FELL OVER WITH HIM, CUT TO HEAD 4 CM LACERATION TO HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/16/2008	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
HIT BY PIECE OF WOOD THROWN BY LAWN MOWER HUSBAND WAS USING PREVIOUS NIGHT // CLOSED HEAD INJURY - FINGER INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2008	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
LAWNMOWER ACCIDENT, +LOC. DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/29/2008	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT CUT HEAD WHEN FELL OFF LAWNMOWER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/22/2007	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
HIT HEAD ON ROCK FROM LAWNMOWER DX SUBARCHNOID HEMORRHAGE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/29/2007	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers, Chains
PT AT HOME WORKING ON LAWN MOWER WHEN A CHAIN LET GO AND HIT HIM IN THE HEAD / DX CHI WITH BRIEF LOC LAC FOREHEAD HEMATOMA HEAD
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 04/29/2007	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power lawn mowers
WORKING ON A MOWER DECK, FELL OFF OF IT'S STAND AND (R) TEMPLE AND ELBO W DX- CONTUSIONS TO HEAD AND ELBOW -LOC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2005	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT WAS MOWING LAWN AND HIT TOP OF HEAD ON A TREE BRANCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/19/2005	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
CHI - 59 YOM WAS MOST LIKELY MOWING GRASS AND CORD TO MOWER GOT CAUGHT AROUND DECK CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND HIT HIS HEAD, POSSIBLY SEIZURE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/13/2005	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT FELL WHILE MOWING LAWN AND HIT SIDE OF HEAD ON GROUND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2005	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT WAS MOWING THE LAWN WHEN FELT DIZZY&LIGHTHEDED THEN PASSED OUT SUSTA INED" SYNCOPE"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2004	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT. WAS MOWING HIS LAWN, RAN INTO A TREE LIMB, CUT HIS HEAD LACERATION HEAD 10 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/25/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT STATES HE WAS MOWING THE LAWN WHEN SOMETHING FLEW UP AND HIT HIM IN THE HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/14/2002	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Power lawn mowers
PT AT HOME WHEN A PIECE OF WOOD SHOT OUT FROM UNDER THE LAWN MOWER STRU CK HER IN THE HEAD CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2001	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/07/2001	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2001	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2000	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 04/18/2000	Age: 75 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/28/1999	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: Power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

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