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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 307
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/27/2010 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers, Gutters, drainpipes, downspouts or run-off pipes |
| 57YOWM PT REPORTS PRESSURE WASHING THE HOUSE AND CLEANING THE GUTTERS THIS WEEKEND, NOW R KNEE PAIN W/LIMITED MOVEMENT. DX. SPRAIN R KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2010 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 51YOM, C/O KNEE PAIN AFTER FELL IN HIS YARD TRYING TO START POWER WASHE R>>SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2009 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| USING PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND FELL. DX KNEE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2007 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| STRUCK BY PRESSURE WASHER TO PRETIBIAL RT LOWER EXTREMITY LACERATION RT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT HAS HAD KNEE PX SINCE PRESSURE WASHING 3 DAYS AGO. DX: L KNEE STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2002 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Sprayers |
| FX PATELLA, TRIPPED OVER CURB WHILE WASHING CAR AT *** CAR WASH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2002 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Sprayers, Built-in swimming pools |
| PT PRESSURE WASHING HIS BUILT IN GROUND SWIMMING POOL AT HOME SLIPPED S TRAINED LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2000 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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