Accidents - Other unpowered garden tools - Year 2008 - Finger

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,388
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	19
6-15 years old:	310
16-25 years old:	163
26-50 years old:	1,077
50+ years old:	816

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/30/2008	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT HIT HAND ON SHOVEL DX: FINGER FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2008	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Dislocation
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DISLOCATED FINGER WHEN RAKING YARD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
STATES WAS SHOVELING DIRT WIEN STUCK FINGER ON THORN. HAS POSSIBLE RET AINED FB. CELLULITIS L INDEX FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2008	Age: 77 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Not Spec
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Clothing accessories
77 YOF RAKING LEAVES AND HAD A HOLE IN GLOVE WHEN DONE SHE NOTICED FINGER WAS RED AND PAINFUL - FROSTBITE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT CLEANING OUT MANURE FROM HORSE PENS AND USING PLASTIC HANDLED RAKE. NOW W/ FINGER PAIN, SWELLING. D:POSS. FINGER CONTUSION, POSS. CELLULITI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2008	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT CUT RT HAND ON A RAKE WHILE GARDENING THIS MORNING. DX-RIGHT 4TH FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/15/2008	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
44 YOM SUSTAINED PUNCTURE WOUND FROM RAKE OPEN FRACTURE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/08/2008	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
56 YOM LACERATED LEFT INDEX FINGER ON A FOLDING GARDEN TOOL WITH BLADE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/07/2008	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK FINGER WITH A PICKAX DURING FIELD TRIP >>CONTS/ABRS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2008	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
LAC TO FINGER WHEN USING A RAKE AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2008	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT CUT LEFT 4TH DIGIT WHILE USING GARDEN SHEERS. DX-LT 4TH DIGIT LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS PLAYING WITH A GARDEN TOOL AND CUT LEFT 4TH FINGER. D: LACERAT ION LEFT 4TH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2008	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CUT FINGER USING SCYTHE 1.5 CM FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2008	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
7 YO F LACERATION TO FINGER AFTER IT WAS HIT WITH A SHOVEL*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2008	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT SUS FINGER NAIL AVULSION WHILE USING A SHOVEL%
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2008	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS HIT IN FINGER W/SHOVEL BY BROTHER. DX: L LONG FINGER SUBUNGUAL HEMATOMA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RIGHT FINGER INJURY; PT CUT FINGER WITH A SHOVEL. D: PARTIALLY AMPUTA TED TIP OF 3RD RIGHT DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/19/2008	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS RAKING LEAVES & GOT A SPLINTER IN FINGER DX: FOREIGN BODY RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/11/2008	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
LAC L THUMB CUT THUMB WITH GARDEN SHEAR AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT USING A PAIR OF MANUAL GARDEN SHEARS AND CUT LEFT THUMB LACERATION FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2008	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
L MID FING LAC/22YOM AT HOME CUT FINGER USING GARDEN SCISSORS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2008	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
69Y/O,M,CUT FINGER ON SCYTHE, LAC. L 5TH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/30/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
WALKED IN WITH DEPUTY, STATES HE CUT HIS LEFT THUMB WIITH A SHOVEL TODA Y. LACERATION TO LEFT THUMB*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/27/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PLAYING WITH PAIR OF GARDEN SHEARS, AT HOME, & CUT END OF MIDDLE FINGER DX: LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/16/2008	Age: 34 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
34 YO FEMALE CUT FINGER ON A RUSTY GARDEN TOOL FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/11/2008	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS AT HOME USING A SHOVEL, JAMMED FNGER ON A HANDLE CAUSING A RT 5TH FINGER SPRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2008	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT AT HOME LAC L INDEX FINGER ON A TROWEL/ DX 3CM DEEP LAC L INDEX FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/22/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT SPRAINED A FINGER WHILE SHOVELING SOD AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/22/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX ACUTE ARTHROPATHY/GOUT/POSS CELLULITIS, R THUMB: 2D H/O SUDDEN ONSET R THUMB PAIN. STATES DID YARD WORK USING HAND TOOLS X 2 D BEFORE SX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2008	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Plants, trees and shrubs
ACCIDENTALLY CUT FINGER WITH HAND ?SCIKLE CUTTING FLOWERS >>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
43Y/O,M,CUT FINGER ON ***WEL WHILE GARDENING, INFECTED LAC. L INDEXFING ER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/29/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT HURT WHEN CUT BY A RAKE AT HOME DX: LACERATION LT MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/17/2008	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT STATES STEPSON HIT HIM ON RIGHT HAND WITH SHOVEL, CUT TO SMALL FINGER, DX: 4.5 CM LAC TO RT SMALL FINGER & FRACTURE TO METACARPAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WITH THUMB PAIN. WAS DIGGING DITCHES ON SUNDAY. D: FELON.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Benches
61 YO M CRUSH INJURY AND LACERATION TO FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN A DIGGING IRON AND METAL BENCH*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2008	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT CUT RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER ON A SHOVEL, LACERATION TO RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/08/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
INJURE FINGER ON SHOVEL DX: FINGER LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2008	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS WORKING OUTSIDE WHEN A RAKE HIT HIM IN THE L HAND INJURING HIS L THUMB. HAS PAIN AND SWELLING. DX L THUMB FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/23/2008	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BENT FINGER BACKWARD ACCIDENTALLY WHILE SHOVELING OUTSIDE >> FX/SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/18/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
45YOM WAS HOME DOING YARD WORK,FELL OFF A WALL,LANDED ON A METAL RAKE;FINGER INJURY,RIGHT INDEX FINGER,FALL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2008	Age: 17 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT LAC FINGER WITH A GARDEN TOOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/2008	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT SHOVEL BROKE AT HOME AND INJURED FINGER DX// LAC RIGHT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/14/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT LACERATED THUMB WITH A SHOVEL. DX: RIGHT THUMB LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/22/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Log splitters
SPLITTING WOOD, HIT HAND WHILE HOLDING WEDGE DX FINGER TIP CRUSH INJURY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

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