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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,325
See also: Other years, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/21/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| LACERATION POPLITEAL FOSSA L KNEE - LACERATED KNEE ON *** TINE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 08/17/2003 | Age: 93 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT CUT ON TILLER; LAC HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| LEFT SHOULDER PAIN. PT INJURED SHOULDER WHEN LIFTING A TILLER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2003 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| FELL AND CUT EAR ON ROTARY TILLER AT HOME. DX; LACERATION EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2003 | Age: 41 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: Power tillers or cultivators |
| 41 YO M INJURED FINGER ON TILLER FX FINGER UNSPEC OPEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT. WAS OPERATING TILLER IN GARDEN, C/O PAIN IN UPPER BACK. DX ACUTE M YOFASCIAL STRAIN DORSAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2003 | Age: 46 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT WAS STARTING A *** WHEN HIS RT RING FINGER GOT SMASHED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| 25 YOM WAS INJURED PULLING THE CORD TO START A TILLER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2003 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PATIENT WAS PULLING STARTING A TILLER AND SUSTAINED A FRACTURE DISTAL RADIUS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2003 | Age: 55 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: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT SUSTAINED LACERATION TOLEG WHILE TILLING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators, Log splitters |
| PT COMPLAINT OF BACK PAIN WITH HEAVY LABOR USING WOOD SPLITTER AND ROTA TILLER, ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2003 | Age: 13 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: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF HIS LOWER LEG FROM THE SHIELD OF THE TILLE R AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT SUSTAINED BURNS OF HIS FINGERS FROM TOUCHING A MOFFLER OF A TILLER A T HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: 25 - 50% Body | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| 48 YOF WORKING WITH TILLER STRAIN MULTIPLE SITES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2003 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT GOT FINGERS STUCK IN A TILLER DX: 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/19/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| LAC L SIDE OF BACK/AT HOME, 5YOM FELL OFF BACK BUMPER OF TRUCK AND LAND ED ON BLADE OF ***. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2003 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| NECK PAIN NOTED AFTER GARDEN TILLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| RT HAND FRACTURE.PT WAS USING A *** IN BACKYARD AND WENT TO PUSHDOG OUT OF THE WAY AND HAND GOT CAUGHT IN ONE OF THE TINES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2003 | 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: Power tillers or cultivators |
| C/O LT LEG PAIN, WEAK AND DIAPHORETIC AFTER TILLING GARDEN TODAY/ NEAR SYNCOPE, MUSCULAR LEG PAIN |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 04/27/2003 | 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: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| ANXIETY - HAD ANXIETY ATTACK WHEN USING *** IN GARDEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2003 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT STATES HE WAS LIFTING A TILLER INTO HIS TRUCK AND DEVELOPED ABDOMINAL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2003 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| PT FELL ON TILLER BLADE; LAC LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2003 | Age: 37 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: Power tillers or cultivators |
| 37YOM-CURSH INJURY LEFT MIDDLE FINGER-REMOVING ROTO TILLER-WHILE WORKIN G AT HOME-INJURED FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2003 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| TOUCHED TILLER MUFFLER DX. HAND BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2003 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power tillers or cultivators |
| USING *** YEASTERDAY AND INJURED SHOULDER. DX. SHOULDER INJURY, CAPSULA R INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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