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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 259
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/22/2008 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FX WRIST, PT WAS AT HOME, RAKING LEAVES WHEN FELL WHEN PLACING LEAVES I N TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LEFT WRIST FX.PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND FELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 65 YO F TENDONITIS TO WRIST AFTER RAKING AT HOME 2 DAYS AGO* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 65 YO MALE HAS WRIST PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES LEFT WRIST CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT USING A METAL SHOVEL DIGGING AND SUSTAINED A PW TO WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS RAKING YARD. DX: L WRIST SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| H/O CHRONIC WRIST PAIN, C/O EXCERBATED WRIST PAIN AFTER RAKING THE LEAV ES >> SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| TRIPPED OVER A RAKE/WRIST SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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