Accidents - Log splitters - 50+ years old - Year 2009 - Finger

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,668
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Date: 12/12/2009	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT STATES SMASHED L INDEX FINGER IN A LOG SPLITTER ON STREET. DX. CONT/ LAC L #2 FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/03/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
INJURED THUMB USING WOOD SPLITTER LAC THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/29/2009	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Log splitters
52 YO F CAME TO THE ED FOR A SPLINTER THAT IS STUCK IN HER LEFT MIDDLE FINGER, FB REMOVED FROM FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Log splitters
58 YO F CAME IN WITH A WOOD SPLINTER INBEDED IN HER FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/08/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT WAS AT HOME USING A LOG SPLITTER, GOT FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN LOG AND SPLITTER CAUISNG A LACERATION AND CONTUSION TO RT INDEX AND MIDDLE FING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/06/2009	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
FINGER FX-SMASHED FINGERS IN A LOG SPLITTER AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/05/2009	Age: 73 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Log splitters
AT HOME SMASHED FINGER WITH LOG SPLITTER AMPUTATION OF TIP OF INDEX FIN GER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/01/2009	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT CUT (R) PINKY FINGER WHILE SPLITTING WOOD, HAS PAIN & SWELLING DX ;# LAC (R) SMALL FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2009	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
54YFC WORKING WITH A LOG SPLITTER AND GOT CAUGHT CUTTING FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Log splitters
PT CAUGHT FIGNER BETWEEN A LOG SPLITTER AND A LOG AT HOME DX: TIP AMPUTATION RIGHT THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/21/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Log splitters
SMASHED FINGER USING LOG SPLITTER. DX FINGER AVULSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/20/2009	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Log splitters
PT CAUGHT (L) THUMB IN LOG SPLITTER, CRUSHING TIP OF (L) THUMB DX;# NONE STATED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2009	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
PATIENT GOT FINGER CAUGHT IN WOOD SPLITTER AT HOME. DX; OPEN FRACTURE TO 5TH FINGER, LEFT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/15/2009	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Log splitters
PT WAS SPLITTING WOOD WHEN HE CAUGHT TIP OF LEFT FIFTH FINGER BETWEEN L OG AND BLUNT PLATE AT END OF WOOD SPLITTER. AMPUTATION TIP L 5TH FINGE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2009	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Log splitters
PT CRUSHED (R) INDEX FINGER IN A WOOD SPLITTER DX;* NONE STATED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2009	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Log splitters
59 Y/O M FOREIGN BODY IN THUMB, PT HAD WOOD SPLINTER AND PULLED IT OUT SWOLLEN & PAINFUL. DX FB OF THUMB, CELLULITUS THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
SUSTAINED LAC TO R 3RD FINGER WHILE SPLITTING WOOD DX LAC R MIDDLE FINGER *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2009	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT HIT (L) THUMB W/ WOOD SPLITTER, NAIL HANGING OFF THUMB DX;# LAC (L) THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/29/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
SMASHED FINGER WITH LOG SPLITTER. DX FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2009	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT SUST LAC TO FINGER SPLITTING WOOD#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2009	Age: 62 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
CRUSHED FINGER WITH WOOD SPLITTER. DX THUMB FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/13/2009	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
PT'S FINGER WAS CRUSHED IN LOG SPLITTER. DX: R INDEX LAC 8 CM, FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/10/2009	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
THUMB INJURY FROM WOOD SPLITTER. DX-LEFT THUMB LACERATION 3 CM,LEFT THU MB AVULSION FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/02/2009	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Log splitters
FINGER INJURY FROM SPLITTING WOOD. DX-LEFT 4TH FINGER AVULSION LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Log splitters
69 YO M CHRUSH INJURY TO FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN LOG AND SPLITTER*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2009	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
CAUGHT THUMB IN HYDRAULIC WOOD SPLITTER AT HOME. DX: FRACTURE, LACERAT ION THUMB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2009	Age: 73 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
FINGERS SMASHED IN WOODSPLITTER/ LT 4TH DISTAL PHALANX FX, LT 4TH FINGE R LAC, POSSIBLE LT FDP TENDON DAMAGE PIP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2009	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Log splitters
USING LOG SPLITTER AND CAUGHT L MIDDLE FINGER IN IT DX- CRUSH INJ TO F INGER LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2009	Age: 59 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Log splitters
MASHED FINGER USING WOOD SPLITTER AT HOME. DX CRUSH INJURY FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2009	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
PT WITH FRACTURED FINGER FROM LOG SPLITTER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2009	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
PT INJURED FINGER WHILE USING A LOG SPLITTER. DX: RIGHT SMALL FINGER FRACTURE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2009	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT INJURED FINGER IN A LOG SPLITTER. DX: LEFT INDEX FINGER LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2009	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Log splitters
PT WAS USING WOOD SPLITTER AND DIDN'T MOVE HAND IN TIME, HYDRAULIC SPLI TTER CAMER DOWN AND AMPUTATED L 5TH DIGIT @ 2ND KNUCKLE. DX. AMPUTATION
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 05/29/2009	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
PT CHOPPING SOME WOOD WHEN PIECE OF WOOD FELL CAUSING THE LOG SPLITTER TO HIT PT ON FINGERS/HAND. D:5TH DIGIT FX, CRUSH INJURY, FINGER LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2009	Age: 77 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
CRUSHED FINGER WITH WOOD SPLITTER OPEN FRACTURE TO FINGER #
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/23/2009	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
ACC GOT HAND CAUGHT IN A LOG SPLITTER CUTTING FINGER >>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
CAUGHT DISTAL PHALANX IN LOG SPLITTER; CUT THROUGH NAIL BED; CRUSHED TH UMB TIP. DX: OPEN FX,PARTIAL AVULSION TIP LT THUMB,LOSS OF NAIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2009	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT. LACERATED FINGER WHILE LOG SPLITTING. DX: LACERATION R INDEX FINGER 1 LAYER CLOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2009	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
PT.CRUSHED FINGER ON LOG SPLITTER AT HOME DX: CRUSH INJURY, OPEN FX R 5TH FINGER, LACERATION R 5TH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2009	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
CRUSHED FINGER IN WOOD SPLITTER/ FX LT 3RD DISTAL PHALANX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2009	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
65YOM USING A WOOD SPLITTER TODAY ,THUMB SOME HOW GOT CAUGHT OR STUCK BY PIECE OF DEBRIS;RT THUMB LACERATION,1-CM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/24/2009	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
54Y/O,M,GOT FINGER SMASHED BETWEEN WOOD & LOG SPLITTER, COMMINUTED DISP LACED FX MIDDLE PHALANX L 4TH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
57 Y/O GOT FINGER CAUGHT IN LOG SPLITTER. DX-LAC. RIGHT INDEX FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2009	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Log splitters
INJURED FINGER ON WOOD SPLITTER CRUSH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/06/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
ACCIDENTALLY CUT FINGER AFTER HAND GOT CAUGHT INTO A LOG SPLITTER >>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/25/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT WITH LAC TO FINGER FROM A WOOD SPLITTER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2009	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
FINGER LAC-CUT ON LOG SPLITTER-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2009	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
70 YO M LACERATION TO FINGER CUT ON LOG SPLITTER*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/09/2009	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
68 YOM CUT FINGER USEING WOOD SPLITTER AT HOME LACERATION FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/06/2009	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
PT WITH FRACTURE TO LEFT LONG FINGER AFTER GETTING IT SMASHED IN WOOD S PLITTER. DX FRACTURE LEFT LONG FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2009	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Log splitters
PT LACERATED R THUMB W/LOG SPLITTER. DX. ELOPED AFTER TRIAGE.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 01/10/2009	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Log splitters
WAS USING WOOD SPLITER TODAY WHEN WOOD GOT STUCK, WHILE REMOVING THE WO OD IT SPRANG BACK HITTING PT'S FINGER>>FX/LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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