Accidents - Other unpowered garden tools - 50+ years old - Years 1997-2010 - All Of Body

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,219
See also: Lethal accidents, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1998:	67
Year 1999:	415
Year 2000:	156
Year 2001:	66
Year 2002:	134
Year 2003:	105
Year 2004:	296
Year 2005:	38
Year 2006:	132
Year 2007:	31
Year 2008:	363
Year 2009:	228
Year 2010:	182

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 10/21/2010	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
63YOM WAS SHOVELING GRAVEL IN HIS YARD AT HOME AND WENT INTO CARDIAC A RREST
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/04/2010	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
64YOF WA WORKING IN YARD, TRIPPED AND FELL INJURING HER LT EAR WITH A GARDEN TOOL, WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST ON WAY TO HOSP DX:PULMONARY EDEMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/29/2010	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: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX NSTEMI/CHEST PN/SYNCOPE: 58YOM FELT LT-HEAED W RAK' LAWN T-1; RING' IN EARS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/17/2010	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
73 YR OLD MALE IN YARD RAKING AND LATER HAD NEAR SYNCOPAL EPISODE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/22/2010	Age: 89 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
89YOM OUTSIDE RAKING LEAVES AND DEVELOEPD SEVERE WEAKNESS AND ALMOST PA SSED OUT ADMITTED FOR WEAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/31/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
FD BY POLICE RAKING LEAVES UNDER THE RAIN IN HER PJ'S S/P ETOH BINGE DR INKING>>ETOH=0.212 INTOX/PSYCH EVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2009	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS WORKING IN HER YARD SHOVELING ROCK AND OVEREXERTED SELF NAUSEA A ND CHEST PAIN HEAT EXHAUSTION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/15/2009	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT RAKING LEAVES IN HER YARD AT HOME IN THE HOT SUN AND PASSED OUT TREA TED FOR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/22/2009	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT SHOVELING AT HOME DEVELOPED SHORTNESS OF BREATH PT TAKES * AND INR FOUND TO BE HIGH DX// * TOXICITY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2008	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
82 YO M CARDIAC ARREST COLLAPSED WHILE RAKING LEAVES AT HOME*
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 11/24/2008	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
USING A PICK AXE DIGGING A HOLE AT HOME, BECAME WEAK ALL OVER WITH FING ERS TINGLING, HAS PRE SYNCOPE SYNDROME.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/18/2008	Age: 89 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BROUGHT IN FOR EVALUATION AFTER FOUND OUTSIDE WITH ALTERED MENTAL STATU S WHILE RAKING THE LEAVES>>DEHYDRATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/14/2008	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX PRESYNCOPE: BECAME SOB & DIZZY W RAK'G LEAVES THIS A.M.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/09/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
C/O GRADUAL ONSET OF BOD HIVES IN ASSOCIATION WIT FACIAL&LIP SWELLING A FTER RAKING LEAVES TODAY>> ALLERGIC REACTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2008	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DIZZINESS RESOLVED/80YOM STS WAS RAKING LEAVES&BECAME DIZZY AND FELL BA CKWARDS AGAINST HOUSE HITTING HEAD. DENIES LOC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/17/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BECAME WEAK WHILE RAKING WEAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/29/2008	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS DIGGING IN HIS YARD WITH A SHOVEL AFTER 6 HOURS OF DIGGING THE HOLE HE PASSED OUT SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2007	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Electric Shock
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Electrical wire or wiring systems
HAD ELECTRIC SHOCK WHEN THE RAKE HE WAS USING CAME IN TOUCH WIHT POWER LINE. DX-ELECTRICAL SHOCK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/27/2007	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SHOVELING OUTSIDE AT HOME,FELT DIZZY"NEARLY PASSED OUT" NEAR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/08/2006	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS DIGGING TRENCH WITH SHOVEL BECAME HOT AND HAD ONSET OF VOMITING HEAT EXHAUSTION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/31/2006	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Liquid drugs
WHILE HOEING GARDEN @ HOME, PASSED OUT DX HYPOGLYCEMIA, NEAR SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/03/2005	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT. WAS RAKING LEAVES AND BENDING OVER T PICK SOMETHING UP, FELT DIZZY. DX. SYNCOPE.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/22/2004	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
WHILE SHOVELING IN GARDEN DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN DX: CHEST PAIN, MILD CHF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/28/2004	Age: 60 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
STEPPED ON RAKE AND HIT BY HANDLE/ POST TRAUMATIC VERTIGO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2004	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT DIGGING IN HIS YARD AT HOME WITH A SHOVEL FOR THREE HOURS GOT HOT DI ZZY AND PASSED OUT HEAT EXHAUSTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2004	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
WEAKNESS-SINCE RAKING LEAVES-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/2004	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
OUT SHOVELING SNOW WHEN LEGS GOT WEAK AT HOME. DX: HYPOGLYCEMIC REACTI ON.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2003	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
HYPOTHERMIA, ACCIDENTAL - 70 YOM WAS OUTSIDE RAKING THE LEAVES, HX PARK INSONS, SLIPPED ON MUD AND FELL INTO FISH POND, WATER UP TO NECK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2003	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
WORKING IN YARD THIS AM RAKING LEAVES. DX. SYNCOPE.
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 10/27/2003	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
ALTERED MENTAL STATUS-FOUND LAYING IN THE STREET-RAKING LEAVES
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/08/2003	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
OVERHEATED WHILE RAKING DX. HEAT EXHAUSTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2003	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
ATRIAL FIBRILATION-PALPITATIONS STARTED WHILE RAKING LEAVES-AT HOME
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 09/25/2002	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT SHOVELING DIRT IN HIS GARDEN AT HOME IN THE HOT SUN VOMITIED THEN PA SSED OUT HEAT EXHAUSTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2002	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
VERTIGO/68YOM 11 DAYS AGO WORKING OUTSIDE IN HOT WEATHER. DIGGING DITCH & CAME OUT OF DITCH, FELL BACK A COUPLE OF STEPS & HIT HEAD ON GROUND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2001	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/12/2000	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2000	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/24/2000	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/11/2000	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/24/1999	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/20/1999	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/18/1999	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/28/1999	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Beds
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/1999	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/05/1999	Age: 84 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/26/1999	Age: 89 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/12/1999	Age: 88 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 03/04/1998	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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