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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,173
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/22/2004 | Age: 41 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT CHIPPING METAL YESTERDAY WHEN A METAL FRAGMENT CAME OFF WEDGE AND LO DGED IN CALF. D: FOREIGN BODY, LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2004 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CHOPPING WOOD W/ A METAL WEDGE RIGHT LOWER LEG PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 08/15/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PUNCTURE WOUND - 42 YOM ACCIDENTALLY STABBED HIS LEFT LOWER LEG ON A PI TCH FORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2004 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT LEG WITH A SHOVEL DX: R LOWER LEG ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 16YOFC HIT IN LOWER LEG WITH A PITCHFORK/PUNCTURE WOUNDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2004 | Age: 27 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: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HER RT LWR LEG WAS PUNCTURED WITH A PITCHFORK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2004 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS RAKING IN HER YARD WHEN SHE BENT OVER AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER LEG THAT SHOT UP TO HER HIM. DX. DVT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/13/2004 | Age: 10 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT'S RIGHT CALF CUT WITH SCYTHE AT NOON. MORE SUPERFICIAL CUTS IN ADDITION TO DEEP CENTRAL CUT. DX: LAC LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT SELF IN LEG WITH RAKE DX: PUNCTURE TO LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2004 | Age: 24 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: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A PICK AXE TO CUT WOOD WHEN SHE CAUSED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO HER RT SHIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT FELL ON PITCH FORK. DX: PW R LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2004 | Age: 75 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 75 YOF WAS WORKING IN GARDEN; DROPPED GARDENING SHEERS WHICH STRUCK LEF T LOWER LEG. LACERATION, LEFT LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/23/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 41 YOWM ACCIDENTALLY "JABBED " HIMSELF W/ A PITCHFORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Farm/ranch | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WALKED INTO PITCH FORK LAYING ON GROUND C/O LEFT LOWER LEG WOUND LEF T LOWER LEG PUCNTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FELL ON PITCHFORK CLEANING HER CHICKEN HOUSE LACERATION TO RIGHT CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2004 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT LOWER LEG AFTER FALLING ON A RAKE LA CERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2004 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CUT TO LOWER LEG HIT ON EDGE OF SHOVEL DX: LACERATION TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2004 | Age: 11 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LAC TO LEG WHEN STRUCK ON A SHOVEL AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2004 | Age: 38 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| TRIP OVER SHOVEL LEG CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2004 | Age: 65 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: Hematoma |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LOWER LEG HEMATOMA-DIGGING UP A SHRUB-HIT LEG W/*** SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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