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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,265
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2008 | Age: 53 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 |
| 53 YOM C/O LOWER BACK PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 84 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 RAKING LEAVES AT HOME AND FELL FRACTURED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 81 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 |
| PT AT HOME SHOVELING INJ L SIDE/ DX STRAIN L SIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2008 | Age: 52 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 |
| BACK PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HURT BACK RAKING LEAVES. DX- LUMBAR SPINE STRAIN # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2008 | 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 |
| RIGHT HIP STR. PT STRAINED HIP WHEN RAKING LEAVES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2008 | Age: 54 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 |
| PT WITH BACK STRAIN FROM RAKING LEAVES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2008 | Age: 52 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-SINCE RAKING LEAVES-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT AT HOME RAKING LEAVES FELL INJ L HIP/ DX L HIP STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2008 | Age: 83 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 |
| PT HAS LOW BACK PAIN FROM RAKING LEAVES DX- BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2008 | Age: 53 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 BACK BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2008 | Age: 57 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 |
| PATIENT HURT BACK WHILE RAKING LEAVES WITH RAKE AT HOME DX: ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN WITH SPASMS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2008 | Age: 85 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 RAKING LEAVES FELL AND INJURED HIP DX/ LEFT HIP FX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| STRAIN LOW BACK - 51 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH WORSENING LOW BACK PAIN AFTE R RAKING LEAVES AT HOME TODAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 99 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 |
| RIGHT HIP FX. PT FELL WHEN RAKING LEAVES AND FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/05/2008 | Age: 86 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, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| LEFT HIP FX. PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND STEPPED OFF DECK |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/04/2008 | Age: 55 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 |
| RIGHT HIP STR. PT STRAINED HIP WHEN FALLING OVER A SHOVEL LAYING IN LE AVES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2008 | Age: 77 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 |
| RIGHT HIP FX. PT FELL WHEN RAKING LEAVES INJURING HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 63 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 STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN RAKING LEAVES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 75 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF THE BUTTOCK BY FALLING WHILE PULLING A HOES . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | Age: 53 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 |
| 53 YOM WAS DOING YARD WORK AND SHOVELING DIRT AND HAS BACK PAIN BACK INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2008 | Age: 77 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 |
| 77 Y/O SHOVELED GRAVEL, HAD ONSET ABDOMINAL PAIN. DX-STRAIN ABD WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2008 | Age: 51 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 |
| BACK STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN RAKING LEAVES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| 64 YO FEMALE BENT DOWN TO PICK UP A RAKE AND HURT BACK LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2008 | Age: 62 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 RAKING DIRT AT HOME AND THE RAKE GOT CAUGHT ON A TREE ROOT PULLED LO WER BACK LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 80 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 |
| LUMBAR STRAIN-LIFTING & SHOVELING GRAVEL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 64 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 |
| RAKING LEAVES IN YARD, BENT OVER HURT LOW BACK. DX LEFT AMA |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 51 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 |
| LOW BACK PAIN AFTER HOEING TOMATOES LOW BACK PAIN * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 67 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 |
| WAS SHOVELING GRAVEL AT HOME. LOW BACK SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2008 | Age: 75 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 |
| PT DOING EXTENSIVE GARDENING WITH A SHOVEL STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2008 | Age: 65 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 |
| HERNIATED DISK/65YOM STS INJURED BACK 13 DAYS AGO WHILE SHOVELING AT HO ME. CONTINUES TO HAVE PAIN. |
| 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: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HAS BEEN DOING A LOT OF YARD WORK (RAKING / LIFTING) LOW BACK PAIN WITH SPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 66 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 |
| HIP FX-TRIPPED ON SHOVEL IN YARD-FELLL ON HIP-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX COMP FX L4/OSTEOPENIA: USING RAZOR CLAM GUN TO DIG FOR CLAMS AND FELTPOP IN BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 71 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, Riding power lawn mowers |
| BACK STR. PT HAD BEEN SHOVELING AND RIDING A LAWN MOWER AND STRAINED BA CK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 56 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 |
| LOW BACK STR/56YOM DEVELOPED BACK PAIN RAKING LEAVES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 53 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 |
| LOW BACK PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAFS IN YARD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 78 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 STRAINED LOWER TRUNK RAKING YARD AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| LOW BACK PAIN SINCE RAKING 2 DAYS PRIOR LEFT SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RASH FOR 10 DAYS - OUTSIDE RAKING 2 WEEKS PRIOR ? POISON IVY DERMATITIS TO GROIN AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 85 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 |
| PATIENT RAKED YARD HER YESTERDAY, C/O LOW BACK PAIN. DX-STRAIN LOW BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 70 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, Fertilizers |
| 70 YO M LUMBAR STRAIN PT HAD BEEN SHOVELING MULCH YESTERDAY* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2008 | Age: 52 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 |
| PT WAS RAKING & DOING YARD WORK & DEVELOPED BACK PAIN DX: ACUTE LEFT SIDE SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2008 | Age: 59 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT AT HOME DOING RAKING IN YARD INJ BACK R LEG PAIN/ DX LOWER BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 53 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: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| BACK SPASM/53YOF WAS RAKING LEAVES AND NOW HAS BACK ACHE ON L SIDE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2008 | Age: 63 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 |
| PT RAKING LEAVSE YESTERDAY AWOKE WITH PAIN IN LOWER BACK STRAINED BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 57 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 |
| LBP AFTER RAKING YARD DX; LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2008 | Age: 53 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: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Buckets or pails |
| EXAC. OF CHRONIC BACK PIAN: USING SHOVEL & CARRYING BUCKETS OF GRAVEL TO MOVE "6 TONS OF IT" PAIN BUTTOCKS TO BACK, PT IS UNEMPLOYED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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