Accidents - Other unpowered garden tools - Year 2002 - Upper Trunk

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,135
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	68
16-25 years old:	152
26-50 years old:	532
50+ years old:	382

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 11/12/2002	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
63 YO MALE DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE RAKING LEAVES CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/08/2002	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX:CHEST MUSCLE SPRAIN AFTER SHOVELING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2002	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS SHOVELING DIRT. DX: THORACIC STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2002	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS SHOVELING GRAVEL. DX: DORSAL STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2002	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT HIT CHEST W/SHOVEL WHILE SHOVELING. DX: CHEST CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/18/2002	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT COMPLAINT OF CHEST PAIN ARM PAIN WITH HEAVY LIFTING, CHEST WALL PAIN MUSCLE STRAIN, SHOVELING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/15/2002	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT WITH BACK PAIN X 3 WEEKS SINCE RAKING THE YARD. D:THORACIC STRA IN, BACK PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/06/2002	Age: 65 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
LOWER CHEST WALL STRAIN-SINCE SHE SHOVELED A LARGE AMOUNT OF DIRT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/25/2002	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT USING A SHOVEL TO DIG AT HOME ACCIDENTLY STRUCK SELF IN THE CHEST CO NTUSION RIBS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/06/2002	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT HURT CHEST WHILE DIGGING HOLE WITH SHOVEL. DX: STRAIN TO CHES T WALL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/22/2002	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PAIN WHILE SHOVELING DIRT DX. CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/16/2002	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SHOVELED HEAVY DIRTCHEST WALL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/2002	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CHEST PAIN-WHILE SHOVELING DIRT-LOCALE NOT STATED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2002	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT. WAS RAKING HIS YARD AND FELL ON THE RAKEPUNCTURE WOUND UPPER BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2002	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Fertilizers
BACK STRAIN-AFTER SHOVELING MULCH @ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2002	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
32 YOM WAS USING UNPOWERED POST HOLE DIGER; DEVELOPED PAIN IN UPPER TRU NK. STRAIN, UPPER THORACIC REGION OF BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2002	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
LT RIB PAIN. FELL AND LANDED ON SHOVEL DX: CHEST WALL CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/24/2002	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RAKING LEAVES AND BURNING THEM IN HER YARD WHEN SHE HAD A SEIZURE AND F ELL INTO THE FIRE BURNING 2% OF BODY ON HER SIDE;DAUGHTER PULLED HER O
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/19/2002	Age: 83 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
HOEING WEED IN GARDEN AT HOME, BEGAN HAVING CHST PAIN. DX: ACUTE MI.
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 04/18/2002	Age: 43 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: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT DIGGING HOLES WITH POST HOLE DIGGER. NOW HAVING BACK PAIN. D: THORACIC STRAIN, LOW BAC PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/16/2002	Age: 67 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT COMPLAINT OF CHEST PAIN RAKING LEAVES, MUSCULOSKELETAL CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/15/2002	Age: 43 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: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
THORACIC/LUMBAR STRAIN-AT HOME-LIFTING A "LAWN ROLLER"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/21/2002	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT LIFTING AND SHOVELING ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE TREE FROM GROUND, CHEST W ALL CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/20/2002	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CHEST PAIN. PT WAS DOING YARD WORK WITH SHOVEL AND DEVELOPED PAIN INCHE ST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/15/2002	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
STRAIN CHEST - VICTIM WAS RAKING LEAVES IN HIS YARD AND HAD ONSET OF LE FT CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/12/2002	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PAIN WITH BREATHING BEGAN WHILE RAKING LAWN AT HOME. DX: PNEUMOTHORAX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2002	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT HAS BACK/SHOULDER PAIN AFTER DIGGING WITH PICK YESTERDAY. D: MUSCLE INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/15/2002	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CHEST CT-FELL IN HER YARD WHILE WORKING-CHEST HIT A SHOVEL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2002	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Tableware and accessories
RAKING OUTSIDE AT HOME, DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE DOING DISHES. DX: C HEST WALL PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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