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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,406
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Eye protection devices |
| GRINDING METAL AT HOME, GOT FB IN EYE. DX; FB EYE REMOVED. HAD SAFETY GLASSES ON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/29/2005 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| HIT HAND WITH ELECTRIC GRINDER/HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/28/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Pipes |
| PT CUT LEG USING ELECTRIC GRINDER CUTTING PIPE AT HOME DX:THIGH LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2005 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 1.5CM FINGER LAC-CUT ON GRINDER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2005 | 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LAC RIF ON GRINDING WHEEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LAC R THUMB; GRINDING METAL @ HOME TRIPPED ON CORD OF GRINDER & HIT THU MB ON SAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT AT HOME USING A POWER GRINDER CAUGHT HAND WITH THE GRINDER DX 3CM DEEP LAC R INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2005 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Eyeglasses |
| FOREHEAD COMPLEX LAC-SHOWING PEOPLE HOW TO USE FLOOR BUFFER-FELL ON WAX ED FLOOR-EYEGLASSED BROKE-CUT FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Eye protection devices |
| GRINDING WITH GOGGLES ON YESTERDAY, NOW HAS FB IN EYE. DX; CORNEAL ABR ASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS USING A GRINDER AT HOME WHEN THE WHEEL CAME OFF STRIKING IN CHE ST LACERATION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| CUT HAND ON ELECTRIC GRINDER LAC. HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT C/O HAND LAC. PT CUT HAND ON GRINDER. DX LAC LFT HAND PARTIAL TENDO N LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Manual cleaning equipment |
| GOT SOMETHING IN EYE IN SHOP AT HOME WHILE SWEEPING OR GRINDING. DX: F B EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| USING A POWERED GRINDER AT HOME AND WHEEL BROKE & LACERATED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A POWER GRINDER WHEN HE LACERATED HIS LT WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| GOT HIT IN TESTICAL BY BUFFER DX: CONTUSION TO TESTICAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2005 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Eye protection devices |
| GOT METAL IN EYE AFTER GRINDING AT HOME WITH SAFETY EYEWEAR. DX: FB EY E. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| USING POWER GRINDER ON METAL AT HOME SUST LAC TO L HAND WHEN GRINDER KI CKED BACK DX LACERATION L HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2005 | Age: 67 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Fences or fence posts |
| LACERATION HAND 3 CM: PUTTING UP CHAIN LINK FENCE, CHANGED BLADE IN GRINDER, SWITCH WAS ON, GRINDER JUMPED, HIT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LACERATIONS OF BOTH FOREARMS: USING A GRINDER TO CUT EXHAUST PIPE ON AUTOMOBILE, SWITCH SHORTED,SHOCKED PT,GRINDER SLIPPED,CUT FOREARMS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WORKING ON HIS CAR WITH A POWER GRINDER WHEN HE FELT LIKE HE GOT A P IECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Lawn mowers |
| PT AT HOME USING POWER GRINDER TO SHARPEN LAWN MOWER BLADE BLADE HIT CH IN DX LAC R CHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2005 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING AN ELECTRIC GRINDER WHEN HE LACERATED HIS LT FOREA RM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2005 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| CUT WRIST ON A METAL POWER GRINDER LEFT WRIST LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WORKING WITH A POWER GRINDER AT HOME TODAY SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT FOURTH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| GRINDNG METAL AT HOME, GOT FB IN EYE. DX: FB EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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