Accidents - Other unpowered garden tools - Year 2008 - Head

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,398
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	525
6-15 years old:	614
16-25 years old:	117
26-50 years old:	419
50+ years old:	720

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/09/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SCALP CONT. BLUNT FORCE FROM RAKE. STEPPED ON THE HEAD OF A RAKE WHICH SNAPPED BACK & HT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/16/2008	Age: 84 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RAKING LEAVES, FELL BACKWARDS ONTO DRIVEWAY. LAC TO BACK OF HEAD. FALL SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/05/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
HEAD LAC-FELL ON DRIVEWAY WHILE RAKING LEAVES-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/31/2008	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves
A SHOVEL FELL FROM A SHELF IN HIS GARAGE HITTING HEAD, NO LOC >>SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2008	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SCALP LACERATION.PT WAS SHOVELING AND FELL LACERATING SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/18/2008	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
HIT IN HEAD WITH SHOVEL LAC HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/04/2008	Age: 64 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
HIT WITH RAKE, DX; SCALP LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2008	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN HEAD WITH A SHOVEL AT SCHOOL. DX-CONTUSION HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/30/2008	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
9 Y/O HIT WITH HOE ON TOP OF HEAD BY SIBLING ACCIDENTALLY AT HOME. DX-LAC. SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/27/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL AT HOME DX/ SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2008	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK ONTO THE BACK OF HEAD WITH A GARDEN SHOVEL BY BROTH ER>>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/16/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
A SCYTHE FELL STRIKING PT IN HEAD. DX: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, SCALP ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2008	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
6 YOM WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH A HOE CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/07/2008	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS PLAYING WITH A FRIEND WHEN HE ACCID. STRUCK HIM IN R SIDE OF HEA D W/ A SHOVEL. NO LOC. DX CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/07/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX 1CM SCALP LAC: FOP REPORTS THAT PT W STANDING NEAR HIS BROTHER WHO W RAK'G LEAVES--BRO THREW RAKE STRUCK'G PT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/12/2008	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT GOT CUT WITH POST HOLE DIGGER. DX; 10 CM LACERATION TO SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/02/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PLAYING OUTSIDE AT HOME, HIT ON HEAD WITH RAKE BY BROTHER; SCALP LA C.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT ON THE HEAD BY A SHOVEL BY 4 Y/O COUSIN. DX-LAC. SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/27/2008	Age: 75 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Stairs or steps
FOOT STUCK ON SHOVEL IN GARDEN, FELL BACKWARDS, HIT STEPS. DX; CLOSED HEAD INJURY, WRIST AND CHEST CONTUSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL. NO LOC DX: HEAD LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2008	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT STRUCK HEAD ON METAL POST DRIVER AT HOME. DX: SCALP HEMATOMA, TONGUE ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
5 YOF WAS PLAYING WITH BROTHER WHO HAD A RAKE, THE RAKE FELL HITTING PT ON THE HEAD CAUSING A LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2008	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
AT HOME HIT HEAD WITH POST HOLE DRIVER DX LACERATION SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/19/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT HAD A POST HOLE DIGGER AND AS HE LIFTED IT HE DROPPED IT ON TO HIS H EAD. DX: 5 CM SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT PLAYING WITH A SHOVEL AND SWUNG IT AROUND STRUCK SELF IN THE HEAD SU STAINED A SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2008	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
HEAD LAC, PT FELL OVER A SHOVEL HITTING HEAD IN FLOWER GARDEN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS @ HOME PLAYING WITH ANOTHER 5 YEAR OLD WHEN A METAL SHOVEL WAS THROWN HITTING PT TO HEAD. DX SCALP LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2008	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS HIT IN HEAD W/SHOVEL. DX: SCALP LAC 1 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2008	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT RAKING LEAVES WHEN TRIPPED OVER ROCK AND FELL. HIT HEAD ON OTHER ROC K. D: CHI, LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/25/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
LACERATION TO HEAD, FELL BACKWARDS ONTO GARDEN HOE. DX-LACERATION SCALP, CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/23/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings
SCALP LAC. WITH REPAIR: DIGGING OUT ROOTS WITH A PICK, HIT PICK OFF THE PORCH, BOUNCED OFF PORCH, HIT IN HEAD, 2.5 CM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2008	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT THREW SHOVEL AND HIT HEAD. DX: SCALP LAC 2.5 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/10/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CUT HEAD WITH SHOVEL;DX LACERATED HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/07/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
HEAD INJURY FORM HIT WITH HANDLE OF SHOVEL. DX-ACUTE HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2008	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT HIT ON HEAD WITH HOE LAC HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
STEP ON RAKE, HIT FACE DX: CONCUSSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/2008	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SCALP LAC, PT WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH A SHOVEL WHEN PLAYING WITH FRIENDS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2008	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT PLAYING AT HOME WITH A FRIEND AND ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL LACERATION SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2008	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT USING A SHOVEL TO DIG A STUMP OUT OF THE GROUND THE SHOVEL SNAPED BA CK HITTING PT IN HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/27/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
IRON GARDEN TOOL FELL ONTO PT'S HEAD. DX: SCALP LAC 3 CM/CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/27/2008	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT PLAYING WITH A FRIEND AND ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH THE HANDL E OF A GARDEN TOOL LACERATION SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2008	Age: 89 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT C/O TRIPPED WHILE USING GARDEN TOOL. DX LAC SCALP CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/22/2008	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
C.H.I.: HEMATOMA FOREHEAD: WALKING IN YARD AT HOME, STEPPED ON A SHOVEL STRUCK WITH SHOVEL RT FOREHEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/22/2008	Age: 83 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CHI, PT FELL OVER SHOVEL WHEN DOING YARD WORK
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/21/2008	Age: 89 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT RAKING LEAVES IN HIS YARD AT HOME AND FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING HEAD S USTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2008	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT HIT ON HEAD WITH RAKE LAC HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PULLED A POST HO;E DIGGER DOWN/CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT SIDE OF HEAD AFTER SISTER HIT PT WITH YARD R AKE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/18/2008	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX SCALP LAC/POST CONCUSSIVE SYNDROME: ACC HIT HEAD WITH FENCE POST DIGGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/17/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT W/LAC TO BACK OF HEAD W/A RAKE. DX. LAC HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/05/2008	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX C0NCUSSION: SUSTAINED ACCIDENTAL TRAUMA TO HEAD WITH END OF SHOVEL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT RECEIVED LACERATION TO HEAD WHEN PLAYING OUTSIDE RUNNING AND FELL ONTO SHOVEL NEIGHBOR WAS USING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2008	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT PLAYING WITH HIS BROTHER WHEN HE WAS ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL SUSTAINED A SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/21/2008	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX SCALP LAC, SCALP CONTU: GASH ON TOP OF HEAD, HIT HEAD WITH A SHOVEL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2008	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT FELL AND CUT HEAD W/SHOVEL, NO LOC; PARIEAL SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/20/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BROTHER HIT PT IN HEAD WITH GARDEN TOOL DX: SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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