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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,349
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/11/2002 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LUMBAR STRAIN - 73 YOM C/O LBP AFTER RAKING LEAVES A FEW DAYS AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RAKING LEAVES IN YARD AND DEVELOPED SEVERE BACK PAIN EXACERBATING HIS S CIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 53 Y.O. B FEMALE W/BACK STRAIN. PT INJ WHILE RAKING LEAVES IN HER YARD. E927 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2002 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 60 Y.O. B MALE W/BACK PAIN. PT STS PAIN BEGAN WHILE RAKING LEAVES W/A R AKE @ HOME. E927 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 52 YOWM STATES HE INJURED BACK IN THE SACRUM AREA AFTER SPENDING 6 HOUR S SHOVELING AND CARRYING COAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2002 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND INJURED BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| INGUINAL HERNIA - 59 YOM PRESENTS WITH ACUTE ONSET PAINFUL LUMP RIGHT G ROIN THAT STARTED WHILE RAKING LEAVES |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/17/2002 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| WHILE RAKING LEAVES, HURT LOW BACK DX: ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2002 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RAKING LEAVES AND FELL-HIP POPPED OUT-DX-R HIP FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/13/2002 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FX R HIP/84YOF WAS RAKING LEAVES, TRIPPED AND FELL ON R KNEE & TWISTED INJURING R HIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/12/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| BACK / SHOULDER PAIN SINCE RAKING LEAVES DX: ACUTE BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT WAS USING A SHOVEL IN HIS DAD'S YARD SUSTAINING LOW BACK PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2002 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 84 YOMC RAKING LEAVES AND WENT TO TURN AROUNG AND FELL DOWN/ FRACTURE R. HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/01/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FELL ON RAKE DX. RECTAL PERFORATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/21/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX;LOW BACK STRAIN. PATIENT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND HAS BACK PX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| REPORTS SHOVELING IN YARD AND FELT SOMETHING "POP" IN BACK. DX. ACUTE MYOFASCIAL STRAIN LUMBAR, DEGENERATIVE C4-L5. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2002 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LUMBAR PAIN. PT WAS DIGGING HOLES WITH A SHOVEL IN GARDEN AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2002 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RT HIP AND WRIST FRACTURE.PT WAS USING A RAKE ON YARD AND TRIPPED OVER RAKE AND FELL AND INJURED HIP AND WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/02/2002 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LOW BACK PAIN-AFTER SHOVELING IN HIS YARD AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LEFT HIP STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING AND HIP BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT, WHO HAD MVA 5 DAYS AGO, HAS INCREASED BACK PAIN WHEN RAKING YARD. D: SCIATICA, UTI. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2002 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Fertilizers and other chemicals for outdoor use |
| PT SHOVELING MULCH AT HOME ON 7-13 CONTINUED BACK PAIN STRAINED LOWER B ACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2002 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LOW BACK PAIN W/L SCIATICA/71YOM C/O PAIN THAT STARTED AFTER WORKING W/ PICK AXE. OTHER COMMENT STS BEGAN AFTER SHOVELING DIRT.3RD COM NO INJ. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Fertilizers |
| LUMBAR STRAIN-AFTER SHOVELING MULCH-ALSO HAD FALLEN ON HER NKNEES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2002 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE - WAS DIGGING HOLES WITH POST HOLE DIGGER AND FEL T A POP IN LOWER BACK, CRAWLED TO SOFA WHERE EMS PICKED HIM UP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/11/2002 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Wheelbarrows or lawn carts |
| SHOVELING AT HOME, ABRUPT LEFT LOW BACK PAIN, EARLIER PICKED UP WHEELBA RROW. ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN WITH MUSCLE SPASMS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| BACK PAIN. PT INJURED BACK WHEN SHOVELING IN GARDEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2002 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT USING RAKE AT HOME, FELL FX RT HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/24/2002 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| USING PICKAXE TO PLANT HEDGE AT HOME AND SPRAINED BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2002 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LUMBAR STRAIN-PAIN AFTER HE SHOVELED GRAVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT COMPLAINT OF HIP PAIN AFTER RAKING, R HIP PAIN MILD DJD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2002 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LEFT HIP DIS. PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND BENT OVER INJURING HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS RAKING AND PULLED BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2002 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT STATES WAS RAKING HER YARD & HAD SUDDEN ONSET OF PAIN IN BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 58 YOM WAS USING A YARD RAKE TO CLEAN UP THE YARD. DEVELOPED LOW BACK P AIN. LOWER BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| TICK BITE - WAS BITTEN BY A TICK WHILE RAKING LEAVES OUTSIDE HOME IN TH E YARD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| USING SHOVEL TO DIG GRAVE FOR DOG - MUSCULAR LUMBAR PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2002 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| C/O LOW BACK PAIN AFTER DIGGING W/ SHOVEL LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2002 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HAD INCREASED PX WHILE SHOVELING. DX: LOW BACK PX, LUMBAR RADICULOPATHY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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