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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,981
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/11/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Sprayers, Footwear |
| PT WAS DOING SOME PRESSURE WASHING USING VERY HOT WATER, PT GOT DISTRACTED & SPRAYED OVER FOOT WATER GOT IN BOOT DX: SCALD BURN FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT USING A PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND STRAINED RIGHT SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 66YO WHITE MALE STS R RIB PX AFTER TRIED OPENING UP A PUMP SPRAYER FELT POP,DX CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Sprayers, Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING HIS DRIVEWAY AND STRUCK LEFT FIFTH TOE AGAINST A GARBAGE CAN FRACTURED TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| HAD BEEN USING A POWER WASHER FOR SEVERAL HOURS. INJURED FINGER. CONTUS ION, RIGHT RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers |
| LEFT SHOULDER STR. PT STRAINED SHOULDER WHEN USING A POWER SPRAYER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PRESSURE KICKED BACK WHILE CRANKING IT STRAIN RT FOREARM * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| DX LAC/ABRASION TO FOREHEAD/FACE/EAR/ DM KNOWN CONDITION: W PRESSURE WASH'G HIS DECK W NORMAL TAP H2O W WIFE W SHE TURNED & SPRAYED PTS FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT USING A PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND STREAM OF WATER FROM WASHER CUT HAND. DX. R HAND LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING AND PAINTING HIS 3 STORY HOUSE. DX: UPPER LEG STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PUNCTURE WOUND TO HAND WAND FROM PRESSURE WASHER HIT HANDE AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT FELL OFF ROOF WHILE PRESSURE WASHING HOUSE. DX: L FRONTAL LOBE HEMORRHAGE, L2-L3 TP FX, L 7/8 RIB FX, FACIAL & BILAT KNEE ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/16/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WAS USING PRESSURE WASHER WHEN HOSE SPLIT AND HIT HIM. DX: HIGH PRESSURE INJECTION INJURY LAC R THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT USING A PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME YESTERDAY AND STRUCK LEFT LOWER LEG WHICH CAUSED A WOUND THAT GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WAS USING A PRESSURE WASHER FILLED WITH PLAIN WATER TO WASH HOUSE & BLEW A HOLE IN HAND DX: LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WITH CONTUSION TO FACE FROM DROPPING A PRESSURE WASHER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT CUT FOOT ON POWER WASHER AT HOME TODAY DX// RIGHT FOOT LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| HAND LAC-HIT W/ PRESSURIZED WATER STREAM FROM PRESSURE WASHER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 68 YO M 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO HAND BURNT ON MUFFLER OF POWER WASHER AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT HAND AFTER PUTTING HAND IN FRONT OF WATER ST REAM FROM PRESSURE WASHER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT CUT OF THE HAND ON HIGH PRESSURE HOSE AT CAR WASH LACERATION LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 66 YOM LACERATED LEFT HAND WHILE USING A PRESSURE WASHER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Sprayers, Built-in swimming pools |
| 76 YO M CONCUSSION PT WAS ADMITTED, FELL ONTO CONCRETE WHILE POWER WASHING THE SWIMMING POOL AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/13/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 78 YOM WAS USING PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND SUSTAINED SMALL PUNCTURE W OUNDS TO LEFT HAND AND SOME ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2008 | Age: 59 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: Sprayers |
| PT USING PRESSURE WASHER-HIT HAND-LEFT HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers, Swimming pools |
| PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING HIS NEIGHBORS POOL AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN LEFT E LBOW STRAINED ELOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Sprayers |
| WASHED HOUSE TODAY USING SPECIAL WASH WHICH SPALSHED IN EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 51 YO FEMALE WAS POWER WASHING HOUSE AND GOT ELECTRIC SHOCK ELECTRICAL BURN FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| LAC FROM HIGH PRESSURE WASHER HOSE/ LAC LT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT FELL WHILE PRESSURE WASHING AND HIGH PRESSURE WATER HIT CALF. DX: HIGH PRESSURE INJURY L CALF, R/O COMPARTMENT SYNDROME. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/21/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PTS WRIST HIT BY A HI-POWER WATER JET AT CAR WASH WHILE WASHING CAR WRIST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| AT HOME PT LIFTED A POWERWASHER,HURT ARM,C/O BRUISING TO R MID-UPPER ARM, DX CONTUSION ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY SPRAYED HAND WITH INDUSTRIAL PRESSURE WASHER, DX HAND I NJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers |
| DX CHEST PAIN, R/O ACS: ONSET OF FLEETING SSCP W/ ASSOCITED SOB YTDY AFTERNOON WHILE PRESSURE WASHING DRIVEWAY |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 05/12/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT INJ FINGE WITH PRESSURE WASHER CONTUSION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 59 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: Sprayers, Furniture |
| L THUMB LAC/59YOM AT FRIENDS HOUSE WAS USING A POWER WASHER TO WASH FUR NITURE ABOUT 20 MIN AGO AND L THUMB WAS CUT BY THE STREAM OF WATER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Sprayers |
| TRYING TO FIX PRESSURE WASHER, FAN ON WASHER CUT FINGER. DX-FRACTURE DISTAL FINGERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PATIENT HURT WHEN PRESSURE WASHER KNOCKED HER DOWN AT HOME DX: LARGE HEMATOMA TO LT LOWER CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| USING PRESSURE IN HIS DRIVEWAY WASHING THE DRIVEWAY WHEN WATER SPLASHED IN EYE. DX-ABRASION CORNEA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| CUT HAND ON PRESSURE WASHER. DX EXTENSIVE HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/08/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT LEAVING THE THERAPIST OFFICE AND TRIPPED OVER THE HOSE OF A POWER WA SHER SUSTAINED A CONTUSION SHOULDER AND CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| PT WAS LIFTING SOME HEAVY LANAI WINDOWS AT HOME AND USING A HEAVY POWER WASHER AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/20/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WAS DOING ALOT OF POWER WASHING OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS STRAINED SHO ULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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