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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,947
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Gasoline |
| PT TRYING TO START HIS LAWNMOWER AND POURED SOME GASOLINE ON THE CYLIND ERS AND IT CAUGHT FIRE SUSTAINED A THERMAL BURN TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT RECEIVED BURN TO LOWER LEG WHEN LAWN MOWER BLEW UP AND CAUGHT HIS LOWER LEG ON FIRE. FIRE DEPT DID NOT ATTEND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| WAS MOWING THE LAWN WHEN A SMALL PIECE OF STEEL WIRE KICKED UP BY THE M OWER CUTTING PT'S LEG>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| FOREIGN BODY LEG - 45 YO FEMALE PRESENTS WITH INJURY TO LEFT LOWER LEG - WAS MOWING LAWN & A TREE BRANCH FLEW OUT & IMPALED ON LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 22 YO MALE, ROCK EJECTED FROM MOWER WHILE MOWING LAWNLEG LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS HIT WITH A PC OF METAL THAT PROJECTED OUT OF LAWN MOWER AT HOME DX: LACERATION LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| CELLULITIS OF RIGHT LOWER LEG - LAWN MOWER LANDED ON LEG - FELL OVER TRAILER TRYING TO GET LAWN MOWER ONE WEEK AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| STATES WAS MOWING THIS AM WHEN SOMETHING FLEW UP AND HIT HIS LEG CUTTIN G IT. LACERATION TO RT LOWER LEG* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| DX LAC LEG: S/P LAC CAUSED BY A ROCK THAT WAS THROWN FROM LAWN MOWER W PT W CUTTING GRASS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LOWER LEG CUT WITH THROWN GLASS WHILE MOWING LAWN LAC RT LOWER LEG * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| FB TO L LEG MOWING YARD DX; LLL LAC W/FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LACERATION TO R LOWER ELG FROM 'SOMETHING' SHOOTING OUT OF A LAWN MOWER # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT MOWING LAWN; ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT PT IN LEG DX: LOWER LEG CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT BURNED LOWER LEG ON LAWN MOWERBURN LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LACERATION WITH CONTUSION TO RIGHT LOWER LEG - PROJECTILE FROM LAWN MOWER HIT LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LACERATION TO RIGHT LOWER LEG - CUTTING GRASS, ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT HIM ON LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| CUTTING HER LAWN, LASTER FOUND LYING SUPINE ON THE FRONT YARD, STATUS P OST SYNCOPAL EPISODE WITH A FALL & ABRSION TO THE LEG>> SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| ROCK FROM LAWN MOWER HIT PT'S LEG. DX: L LEG LAC 3 CM, L TIBIAL SPIRAL FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 48 YO MALE HAD BLADE ON LAWN MOWER BREAK OFF WHILE MOWING LAWN AND CUTL OWER LEG - LACERATION LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| 14 YO MALE HAD ROCK HIT LEG WHILE MOWING LAWN LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT WAS USING LAWNMOWER O HIS YARD WHEN A FOREIGN OBJECT WAS THROWN FROM MOWER INTO HIS LEG. DX-LAC. AND FOREIGN LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| MOWING LAWN LOWER LEG TOUCHED LAWN MOWER 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURN TO LOW ER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HIT IN THE BACK OF THE LEG WITH A LARGE PIECE OF METAL THROWN BY A LAWN MOWER LACERATION LOWER LEG # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LEFT LOWER LEG LAC, PT WAS MOWING GRASS WHEN A PIECE OF TREE BARK FLEW OUT OF MOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| TIB/ FIB CT-HIT W/A ROCK THROWN FROM LAWN MOWER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| SHIN CT-MOWING LAWN-ROCK FLEW UP HITTING LEG-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| PT MOWING LAWN AT HOME AND WIRE KICKED UP AND CUT LEG DX// ABRASION LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Insect induced injuries |
| MOWING THE LAWN, STUNG BY BEE. DX BEE STING WITH LOCAL REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Fences or fence posts |
| TRAPPED BETWEEN LAWN TRACTOR AND BARB WIRE FENCE LEFT LEG PUNCTURE WOUND # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HIT IN LEG BY OBJECT TROWN FROM LAWNMOWER LACERATION LEG # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT WAS BURNED BY LAWNMOWER, BURN TO LOWER LEG 2 DAYS AGO,NOW RED AND PEELING. DX PARTIAL THICKNESS THERMAL BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LOWER LEG LAC-OBJECT FLEW FROM UNDER LAWN MOWER CUTTING LEG-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT STANDING OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL WHEN A LAWN MOWER WENT BY AND SOMETHIN G SHOT OUT FROM UNDER IT STRUCK IN LOWER LEG CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LACERATION LOWER LEG - 39 YO MALE WAS MOWING HIS LAWN AND A ROCK SHOT U P HITTING HIME IN RIGHT MEDIAL LOWER CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PATIENT WAS MOWING HER YARD, OBJECT FLEW AND HIT HER LEG. DX-LARGE HEMATOMA LEFT LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| FB;P.W. L CALF/42YOM STS AT HOME WAS MOWING LAWN WHEN LOOSE WIRE "HARPOONED" L CALF. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LOWER LEG LAC-WOODEN FB FLEW UP HITTING LEG WHILE MOWING LAWN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HIT BY LAWNMOWER DISCHARGE LAC LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| LEGS HURT AFTER MOWING GRASS RIGHT LEG PAIN # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers, Wire |
| PT WITH LAC TO LEG FROM PIECE OF WIRE THAT SHOT OUT OF LAWN MOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT MOWING LAWN 4 DAYS AGO INJURED LEG DX// ABRASION LEFT LOWER LEG CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| PT TWISTED KNEE WHILE STARTING LAWN MOWER DX: RT LEG MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| HIT WITH OBJECT PROJECTILE FROM LAWN MOWER LACERATION LOWER LEG WITH FOREIGN BODY # |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| GETTING OFF LAWN MOWER AND FELT A POP IN R CALF. DX R CALF MUSCLE RUPTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power lawn mowers |
| REPORTS GETTING HIT WITH ?SOMTHING ONTO SHIN WHILE MOWING THE LAWN TODA Y>> LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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