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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 488
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/17/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT TRIPPED OVER SPRINKLER INJUIRG CALF C/OPAIN DX STRAINED CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT TRIPPED ON HOSE INJURING LOWER LEG DX" LOWER LEG ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2002 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT TRIPPED OVER SPRINKLER CUTTING LOWER LEG DX: LAC LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2002 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| 78-YOM SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF HIS LOWER LEG AS A RESULT OF FALLING OV ER THE GARDEN HOSE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT TRIPPED ON SPRINKLER CUTTING LOWER LEG DX LAC LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2002 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| R FIBULAR FRACTURES - FELL WHEN FEET BECAME TANGLED IN GARDEN HOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2002 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT TRIPPED ON HOSE CUTTING LOWER LEG DX LAC LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2002 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| RT LOWER LEG LACERATION.PT LACERATED LEG ON A GARDEN HOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| HIT LEG ON A WATER HOSE ON SATURDAY. DX LEFT LOWER LEG PAIN AND PTLEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2002 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| R LEG CONT/62YOWM HAD R LOWER LEG CAUGHT IN GARDEN HOSE CAUSING CONTUSI ON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2002 | Age: 93 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| TRIPPED ON HOSE & FELL IN YARDDX: SKIN TEAR AVULSION RT. LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2002 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT WORKING IN HER GARDEN AT HOME STRUCK RIGHT LOWER LEG AGAINST A SPRIN KLER HEAD HEMATOMA LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2002 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT TRIPPED OVER HOSE WHILE CLEANING YARD C/O PAIN TO LOWER LEG DX; LOWER LEG ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT FELL HITTING LOWER LEG ON SPRINKLER CUTTING C/O BLEEDING DX: LAC LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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