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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 777
See also: Lethal accidents, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/01/2010 | Age: 55 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 55YOM WEEKWACKING HIS YARD AT HOME AND DEVELOPED NAUSEA AND VOMITING MUSCLE CRAMPS HEAT EXHAUSTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2010 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 56YOBM STATES WENT TO CHURCH & DID *** FOR OVER AN HOUR, CAME HO ME ATE & LAYED DOWN, WOKE UP W/NAUSEATED. DX. SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2010 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 87YOF WITH SHORTNESS OF BREATH, SWELLING IN THROAT, S/P TAKING NEW MEDF ROM PCP. ALSO *** 2 DAYS AGO. DX: ALL RXN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/12/2009 | Age: 62 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| CARDIAC ARREST:FOUND BY SON ASIDE ***,APPARENTLY HAD BEEN ***,SON ADVIS ED HIM NOT TO DO STRENOUS ACTIVITY,HEART ATTACK 1 YR AG |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 57 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| SUFFERED HEAT EXHAUSTION WHILE USING A *** AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2006 | 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| WAS USING WEED EATER AND SUSTAINED HEAT EXHAUSTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| *** THIS AM, SYNCOPE DX: HEAT EXHAUSTION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/22/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| USING ***, BECAME DIZZY, FELL + ETOH DX ETOH ABUSE, HYPONATREMIA DX ETOH ABUSE, HYPONATREMIA |
| Disposition: Not recorded |
| Date: 07/14/2003 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT STATES HE PASSED OUT IN YARD WHILE USING *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2003 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT. WAS OUT IN YARD *** AND PASSED OUT. DX. SYNCOPE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/24/2003 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 83 Y.O. W MALE W/SYNCOPAL EPISODE. PT HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE WHILE USING A *** OUTSIDE @ HOME. PT ADM. E927 |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | 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: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HEAT EXHAUSTION - DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHEN USING *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT. HAD 2 WITNESSED SYNCOPAL EPISODED THIS MORNING WHILE OUTSIDE TRYING TO GET *** STARTED. DX. FAINTED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2000 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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