Accidents - Other unpowered garden tools - 50+ years old - Year 2009 - Upper Trunk

Back to NEISS Data Home, Hospital Data.

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,617
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/17/2009	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
78YOM DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE RAKING LEAVES CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 12/13/2009	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT C/O UPPER BACK PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES. DX: ACUTE UPPER BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/2009	Age: 86 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RAKING LEAVES 2 DAS AGO, FELL ONTO LT SIDE; YEST HELPING SOMEONE MOVE T HINGS & EXACERBATED INJURY. DX: CONTUSION LT RIBS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/17/2009	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
82YOF RIB PAIN FELL WHILE RAKING LEAVES AT HOME*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/15/2009	Age: 70 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
C/O GRADUAL ONSET OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH ASSOC WITH WHEEZING WHILE RAKI NG WET LEAVES>>ASTHMA EXCERBATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2009	Age: 75 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
75YOF WAS HOME RAKING LEAVES DEVELOPED PAIN FROM MID THORACIC TO BASE OF HEAD;NECK AND BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/09/2009	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT HAS UPPER BACK PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES DX;# THORACIC BACK STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2009	Age: 65 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
MUSCULOSKELETAL CHEST PAIN: POSSIBLE PNEUMONIA; PAIN IN THE RT CHEST, GOING ON SINCE THIS MORNING, RAKED LEAVES YESTERDAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/24/2009	Age: 59 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Televisions
HAS CHEST PAIN WHILE RAKING LEAVES AND AGAIN WHILE WATCHING TV CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/12/2009	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
C/O MID STERNAL CHEST PAIN AFTER SHOVELING GRASS & DIRT. SOB, CLAMY DX:CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/27/2009	Age: 72 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CARDIAC CHEST PAIN-STARTED AFTER SHOVELING DIRT & LANDSCAPING-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/10/2009	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SHOVELING GRAVEL AND HURT BACK. DX BACK STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2009	Age: 59 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BEGAN HAVING CHEST PAIN WHILE RAKING LEAVES AT HOME. DX: ACUTE CHEST P AIN, ANGINA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/20/2009	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT C/O CHEST PAIN WHICH BEGAN WHILE RAKING BACK YARD. _ETOH. ALSO HAS S UICIDE IDEATION. DX:CHEST/FLANK PAIN, SI, ETOH INTOXICATION. OBSERVATIO
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 07/14/2009	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
53 YO F STRAINED CHEST WALL DEVELOPED PAIN WHILE SHOVELING*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS WORKING OUTSIDE LAYING A WALKWAY, SHOVELING, ETC. DX. CHEST WAL L PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2009	Age: 76 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
76YOF,DOING YARDWORK, GARDENING WITH SPADE , BENT OVER STRAIN BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/22/2009	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
R CHEST WALL PAIN/54YOM LEANED ON SHOVEL 2 DAYS AGO TO LIFT A PIECE OF SIDEWALK AND FELT A POP IN R SIDE OF CHEST.FEELS SOB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/03/2009	Age: 56 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
56 YOF DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE RAKEING YARD CHEAST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/02/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS HIT BY SHOVEL WHILE DIGGING A HOLE. DX: BLUNT CHEST TRAUMA, L LUNG ABSCESS/BULLA.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/10/2009	Age: 89 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
5D AGO, FELL WHILE GARDENING VS RAKING&NOW WITH RIB PAIN >>CONTS/SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/01/2009	Age: 76 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
76Y/O,F,PAIN R UPPER BACK SINCE SHOVELING STONES, BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/25/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BACK STRAIN-FELL WHILE RAKING LEAVES-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2009	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RAKING LEAVES AT HOME AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN,ADMITTED TO RULE OUT HAV EING AN MI
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/02/2009	Age: 94 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS RAKING HER YARD AT HOME AND FELL SUSTAINED A COMPRESSION FRACTU RE TO UPPER BACK
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/28/2009	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
FELL LAST NIGHT AND LANDED ON SHOVEL HANDEL//RIB FX X3
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2009	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX PULMONARY EMBOLUS PE/DVT DEEP NENOUS THROMBOSIS/PLEURISY: P/W LS BACK PN W DEEP BREATHS. MILDLY AFFECTED BY MV'MT. H/O GARDEN'G W SPADE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/08/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT C/O CHEST PAIN, SX ONSET WHILE PT WAS SHOVELING A COMPOST PILE. CHE ST PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/06/2009	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT STATES A RAKE FELL ONTO PT'S CHEST DX; CHEST WALL CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/27/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF RAPID HEART BEATS WHILE RAKING THE LEAVES >>PALPITATION/AFIB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2009	Age: 72 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX BACK PAIN: C/O THORACIS BACK PAIN THAT STARTED AFTER DO'G YARD WORK YTDY. RAK'G & CUT'G BUSHES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/19/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX UNSTABLE ANGINA USA: BROUGHT OVER F FAMILY MED CLINIC F CH PN. C/O A HA & UPPER BACK PIAN THAT STARTED APPROX 9 DA AGO WHN HE W SHOVEL'G
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/17/2009	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS OUTSIDE WORKING WITH A FRIEND SHOVELING AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAI N AND NEAR SYNCOPE ADMITTED FOR CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/16/2009	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
70YO BLACK MALE AT HOME OUTSIDE RAKING THE YARD,DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN DX CHEST PAIN - DOUBT CARDIAC ETIOLOGY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Back to the top

Hospital-data.com does not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of any information on this site. Use at your own risk. This data has been compiled from multiple government and commercial sources. Additional information about prescription drugs is coming up.