Accidents - Snow throwers/blowers - Years 1997-2010 - Upper Trunk

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,890
See also: Lethal accidents, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 2003:	154
Year 2004:	43
Year 2005:	264
Year 2006:	86
Year 2007:	284
Year 2008:	432
Year 2009:	197
Year 2010:	426

Accidents - Age:

16-25 years old:	43
26-50 years old:	566
50+ years old:	1,280

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/27/2010	Age: 64 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
64YOM-CHEST PAIN-WHILE USING A SNOW BLOWER-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/27/2010	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
66YOM,C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF RT SIDED CHEST PAIN AFTER OPERATING SNOWBLOWE R>>CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/26/2010	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: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
54YOM, EXCERBATED CHRONIC BACK PAIN WHILE LIFTING A SNOW BLOWER >>MS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2010	Age: 79 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
RT RIB FXS X2.79YOM WAS USING A SNOW BLOWER AND FELL ON IT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/27/2010	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
68YOM DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN AFTER USING SNOW BLOWER AT HOME CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2010	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
67 YR OLD MALE SNOWBLOWING SNOW OFF SIDEWALK AND DEVELOPED CHEST DISCOM FORT AND BURNING --ADMIT FOR CHEST PAIN TO R./O MI
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/15/2010	Age: 34 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
34YOF TRIED TO PULL UP SNOW BLOWER FROM BASEMENT AND HEARD A CRACK DX: THORACIC STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2010	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
57YOM CHEST PAIN + MI, DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE PUSHING HIS SNOWBLOWE R AT HOME TRANSFERED FOR HEART CATH*
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 02/07/2010	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
30YOM PNEUMOTHORAX BECAME SHORT OF BREATH WHILE USING A SNOWBLOWER HIS TORY OF PNEUMOTHORAX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2010	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
A 44 YOM TO ER WITH C/ O OF CHEST PAIN, STATES PULLED RIPCORD ON SNOWBL OWER 100 X'S, CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2010	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
47YOM, C/O THORACIC BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING A HEAVY SNOW PLOW >>MS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/2010	Age: 36 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
36YOF, BELTED DRIVER, SLID DOWN A SNOWY HILL&GOT T-BOEND ONTO THE PASS SIDE OF THE MV BY A SNOWPLOW, NO ABD, C/O BACK PAIN>>MS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2009	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
80 YOM SPRAINED HIS CHEST WALL WHILE SNOW BLOWING AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/28/2009	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PUCHED AND LIFTED SNOWBLOWER AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN,HYPERTENSIVE URGE NCY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/20/2009	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PULLING @ SOMETHING WHEN " THE THING BROKE"&FELL BACKWARDS HITTING CHES T WALL AGAINST THE SNOWBLOWER>>RIB FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2009	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
SNOW BLOWING THE DRIVEWAY&SUDDENLY FELT A POP IN THE BACK&FELL TO KNEE >>BACK MUSCLE STRAINS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/14/2009	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PICKED UP SNOW BLOWER & NOW HAS MID TO UPPER BACK PAIN. ACUTE MYOFASCI AL THORACIC STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/30/2009	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
HAS UPPER BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING A SNOWBLOWER----DX; NS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2008	Age: 72 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
FELL WHILE USING SNOWBLOWER T-11 WEDGE FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2008	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT SUSTAINED AN MI WHILE SNOW BLOWING AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 12/20/2008	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT HAD CHEST PAIN AFTER SNOW BLOWING AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2008	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT WAS AT HOME USING A SNOW BLOWER , CAUISNG CHEST PRESSURE, SOB AND PALPITATIONS DX SUPRAVENTRRICULAR TACHYCARDIA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2008	Age: 83 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
SUDDEN ONSET OF SUBSTERNAL CHEST PAIN RADIATING TO THE JAW WHILE STARTI NG A SNOW BLOWER>>CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2008	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
SNOWBLOWING - POSTERIOR BILATERAL CHEST PAIN MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN POSTERIOR THORAX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT FELL WHILE USING SNOW BLOWER - FX RIBS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2007	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
CHEST PAIN-AFTER USING SNOW BLOWER-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/03/2007	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT HAD CHEST PAIN AFTER SNOW BLOWING AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/14/2007	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
FELL AGAINST HANDLE OF SNOWBLOWER/ XYPHOID FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2007	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
CHEST PAIN-STARTED AFTER USING SNOW BLOWER-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2007	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Snow throwers/blowers, Plants, trees and shrubs
36 YOM USING SNOWBLOWER LAST NIGHT STRUCK TREE STUMP - CONTUSION TO CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/14/2007	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
USING A SNOWBLOWER AND FELT A "POP". DX CHEST WALL STRAIN#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/03/2006	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
TRIPPED AND FELL OVER SNOWBLOWER AT HOME HITTING R SIDE OF RIBS DX CONTUSIONS R RIBS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/24/2006	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Snow throwers/blowers, Motor vehicles or parts
FELL ATTEMPTING TO GET A SNOW BLOWER OFF A TRUCK " CHEST WALL CONTS"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2005	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
MUSCULAR CHEST PAIN - CHEST PAIN AFTER USING SNOWBLOWER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2005	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT WAS USING SNOW BLOWER AND MACHINE WAS PUSHING AGAINST PT'S CHEST CONTUSION TO CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2005	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
CHEST WALL PAIN-WHILE PULLING STARTER CORD ON SNOW BLOWER-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/07/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT SUST CONTUSION TO RIBS SNOW BLOWER HIT PT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2005	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
CARDIAC ARREST: BLOWING SNOW AT HOME, CAME INTO HOUSE THEN COLLAPSED SQUAD CALLED, ASYSTOLE ON ARRIVAL, EXPIRED
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 01/15/2005	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
SLIPPED AND HIT CHEST ON SNOWBLOWER HANDLE CONTUSING IT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/13/2004	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
PT FELL WHILE SNOWBLOWING LANDING ON CHEST C/O RIB PAIN RIB FRACTURES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/12/2003	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
FELL ONTO SNOWBLOWER PREVIOUS DAY RIB FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/22/2003	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
60 YOM FELL WHILE USING A SNOW BLOWER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/02/2003	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Snow throwers/blowers
CHEST WALL STRAIN.PT WAS PULLING ON CORD OF A NEW SNOW BLOWER AND INJUR ED CHEST WALL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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