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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 790
See also: Lethal accidents, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/12/2009 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| 77YOM OUTDOORS BLOWING SNOW FROM SIDEWALK, COLLAPSED & WAS BROUGHT TO E R UNRESPONSIVE DX: CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION, UNSUCCESSFUL |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 01/04/2009 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK WHILE STARTING SNOWBLOWER, FELL AND INJURED BACK/ ELECTRICAL SHOCK, LUMBAR SPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| 19 YOM HAS CHEST PAIN AFTER TUNING UP SNOW BLOWER AND EXPOSED TO FUMES - ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers, Carbon monoxide poisonings |
| IN GARAGE FOR 45 MIN RUNNING SNOWBLOWER TO BURN OFF GAS AND DEVELOPED CO POISONING--TRANSF TO HYPERBARIC CHAMBER,DIZZY,WEAK |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 02/10/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A SNOW BLOWER, HAD A SCOPLE EVENT, DIGANOSIS SYCOPLE EVENT, POST TRAMA FALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| CAME INSIDE JUST AFTER SNOWBLOWING CARDIAC ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 12/14/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers, Tablet or capsule drugs |
| BIB EMS RTS BEING STRUCK BY A SNOW BLOW, ABO, BAC=0.140, ALSO ON *** , INR FD TO BE 4.14>> ETOH INTOX/ELEVATED INR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2007 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| ONSET OF CHEST PAIN , WAS SNOWBLOWING 1 1/2 HOURS PRIOR/ ACUTE CORONAR Y SYNDROME |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/02/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| 41 YOM DEVELOPED WEAKNESS AND SOB WHILE USING SNOWBLOWER -HYPERTENSION, HYPOKALEMIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2007 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| PT SUFFERED SYNCOPE EPISODE WHILE USING A SNOW BLOWER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/15/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| FOUND FACE DOWN IN THE SNOW, HAD BEEN SNOWBLOWING/ CPR UNSUCCESSFUL |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| OUTSIDE SNOWBLOWING AND COLLAPSED AND HAD A STROKE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers, Clothing accessories |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK - 22 YOM WAS OPERATING A GAS POWERED SNOW BLOWER AND P UT HIS WET, GLOVED RIGHT HAND ON THE ELECTRICAL SWITCH, WAS SHOCKED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2005 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| SYNCOPE VISO-VAGAL ATTACK - PATIENT HAD BEEN SNOWBLOWING - HE HAD COLD HANDS AND THEN HAD A SYNCOPAL EPISODE - LOST CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2004 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| PT WAS USING SNOWBLOWER AND BECAME LIGHTHEADED AND PASSED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/21/2003 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Snow throwers/blowers |
| ACUTE ASTHMA EXACERBATION-BREATHING DIFFICULTY STARTED WHILE USING A SNOW BLOWER-HE INHALED EXHAUST FUMES-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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