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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,100
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/09/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HAD PX WHILE RAKING WET LEAVES 5 DAYS AGO. DX: L FOREARM STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2004 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FELL WHILE RAKING LEAVES DX: R FOREARM & HAND CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2004 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS - SEVERE ARM PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2004 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT RAKING LEAVES & FELT ARM GET STUCK. DX: STRAIN MUSCLE FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2004 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 59YOF AT HOME FELL WHILE RAKING LEAVES INJ WRIST DX/FX BB R FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2004 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT. SAYS RAKING LEAVES TUESDAY, PAIN ENTIRE R ARM. DX. MYOFASCIAL STRA IN, TENOSYNOVITIS, OVERUSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FOREARM CT-HIT ARM ON A SHOVEL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2004 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FOREARM STRAIN-@ HOME-SINCE RAKING LEAVES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Drinking glasses |
| TRIPPED OVER RAKE AND FELL ON BROKEN GLASS LAC TO LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2004 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| INSECT BITES/86YOF C/O INSICET BITES FOR 3 DAYS SINCE OUTSIDE RAKING LE AVES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2004 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT WAS PLAYING IN YARD WITH BROTHERS WHEN HE TRIPPED OVER A RAKE DX; BUCKLE FRACTURE OF THE R DISTAL RADIUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Hatchets or axes |
| PT WITH ARM PAIN. USED SHOVEL AND AXE TO DIG UP STUMP IN YARD ON SATURD AY. D: MUSCLE SPASM/STRAIN, ARM, RADICULOPATHY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Other manual workshop tools |
| PT WAS USING GARDEN SHEARS, INJURIED HER FOREARM SUSTAINED " PUNCTURE WOUND TO LT FOREARM" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2004 | 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 Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT-LOST BALANCE AND PT'S RIGHT FOREARM LANDED ON SHOVEL CAUSING A PUNCT URE WOUND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 9 YR OLD MALE WAS HIT WITH RAKE LAC FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2004 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PIECE OF METAL FROM GARDEN WEDGE IN GARDEN FLEW OFF CUTTING LEFT FOREAR M LEFT FOREARM LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2004 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FOREARM CT-HIT ARM W/ SHOVEL HANDLE-@ YOUTH DETENTION CENTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| USED SHOVEL TO LIFT BUNCH OF HEAVY BRICKS. RT FOREARM HEMATOMA (2ND TO LIGAMENTOUS SPRAIN) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CONTUSION TO ARM WHEN STRUCK BY A SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| STATES WAS WORKING IN THE YARD AND WAS SHOVELING AND PLANTING A TREE C/O NECK AND NUMBNESS TO RT HAND. PARESTHESIA RT ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2004 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RAKING LEAVES FOR MANY HOURS C/O ARM PAIN DX: R FOREARM & WRIST SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Hammers |
| USING WEDGE AND SLEDGE HAMMER TO CUT WOOD SOMETHING CUT FOREARM DX LAC TO FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS USING SHOVEL AND FX ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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