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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 664
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Ductwork for heating or cooling systems |
| 25 YOM CUT LEFT HAND WHILE CHANGING VENT TUBING ON CLOTHES DRYER LACERATION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| HAND BURN-REACHING INTO A DRYER-HIT HEATING ELEMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Clothing |
| 30 Y/O HIT HAND ON CLOTHES DRYER ATTEMPTING TO TAKE CLOTHES OUT AT HOME DX-FX RIGHT METACARPA,. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 48 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: Clothes dryers |
| PT WORKING ON THE MOTOR OF A CLOTHES DRYER AT HOME AND SUSTAINED A HAN D LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| LACERATED HAND ON A CLOTHES DRYER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| RT HAND FX.PT WAS MOVING A DRYER AND DROPPED IT ON HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | 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: Clothes dryers |
| PT STATES ACCIDENTLY BUMPED HAND ON THE DRYER DX RT HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | 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: Clothes dryers |
| PT GRABBED BELT ON ELECTRIC DRYER MOTOR-COTUSION LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Clothing |
| PT PUTTING CLOTHES IN A CLOTHES DRYER AND STRAINED LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers, Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT WORKING ON A DRYER WHEN GOT SHOCK FROM ELECTRICAL WIRE AND JERKED HA ND BACK CUTTING IT ON SHEET METAL. D: HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT HAD LAC ON R HAND FROM LINT TRAP ON DRYER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| STATES WAS MOVING A CLOTHES DRYER SHE DROPPED THE DRYER ON HER HAND. CONTUSION TO HAND.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT WAS MOVING A OLD CLOTHES DRYER AT HOME AND INJURED HAND DX: LACERATION LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT JAMMED FINGER AGAINST CLOTHES DRYER & PULLED THEM BACK INTO PLACE NOW HAS HAND PAIN DX: MUSCLE STRAIN RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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