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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 494
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2006 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| PATIENT WAS CUTTING TREE FOR WOOD AT HOME. PEICE OF WOOD HIT HAND DX: LACERATION TO LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2006 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Other unpowered garden tools |
| 51 YO F WAS DIGGING CACTUS OUT OF POT AND HAND SLIPPED OFF SHOVEL INTO CACTUS. CACTUS NEEDLES IN HAND* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2006 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LACERATION HAND - 52 YOF WAS CUTTING FLOWERS AND LACERATED PALM OF LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2006 | Age: 74 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Fences or fence posts |
| PT WRKING IN GARDEN AT HOME,STUCK THUMB ON ROSE THORNE,BANGED HAND ON METAL GATE, DX CONTUSION HAND,PUNCTURE WOUND,POSS CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2006 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT TRIMMING A PALM TREE AT HOME AND SUSTAINED AN ABRASION TO LEFT HAND ON THE TREE GOT INFECTED CAME TO THE ED FOR CELLULITIS TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2006 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Nonelectric razors or shavers |
| PT CUTTING EGGPLANT OFF VINE WITH A RAZOR AND CUT HAND DX// LAC LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Saws |
| PT CUT HAND WITH A SAW WHILE CUTTING A TREE AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2006 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Riding power lawn mowers |
| PT STRUCK RIGHT HAND AGAINST A TREE WHILE RIDING ON RIDING MOWER AT HOME DX: FRACTURED RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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