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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 594
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2002 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| 67 Y/O W/F TRIPPED OVER STEPPING STONE FRACTURED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2002 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| PATIENT CUT HAND GETTING MAIL OUT OF MAILBOX AT HOME. DX: LACERATION LEFT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| 54YOM WAS DISASSEMBLING WINDMILL IN HIS YARD & CUT PALM ON BLADE DX: LAC R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| PT. CUT HAND ON A YARD ORNAMENT (WINDMILL) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2002 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| 89-YOM SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF HIS HAND FROM A MAILBOX AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2002 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment, Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers |
| PT STATES SHE WAS IN HER YARD ATTEMPTING TO STEP OVER A HOSE, WHEN SHE FELL ONTO THE LANDSCAPING EDGING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| RT HAND LACERATION.PT PUNCHED A MAILBOX AND LACERATED HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| DX RIGHT HAND ABRASION: HIT HAND ON YARD ORNAMENT, ACCIDENTALLY, AT HO ME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2002 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| 71 YOF WAS PUTTING UP A BIRD HOUSE; PIECE SLIPPED AND CUT HER RIGHT HA ND. LACERATION, RIGHT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2002 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Decorative yard equipment |
| WENT TO MAILBOX AT HOME AND FELL HITTING HAND ON MAILBOX. LACERATION T O HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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