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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 759
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2006 | Age: 32 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| C/O PT STATES WAS CUTTING WOOD WITH A AXE AND INJURED BACK DX LOWER TRUNK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/26/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PATIENT CHOPPING WOOD WITH AX AND NOW EXPERIENCING PAIN IN LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2006 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PATIENT CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE AND SLIPPED AND FELL RESULTING IN ACUTE THORACIC CONTUSION TO LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| 42 Y/O M INJURED LOWER BACK WHILE CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE AT HOME. DX;L BACK STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE AND HAS LOW BACK PAIN LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2006 | Age: 27 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| 27YOM WAS SPLITTING WOOD ACUTE MYOFASCIAL STRAIN LUMBAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2006 | Age: 31 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: Other |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| LOW BACK PAIN/31YOM WAS SPLITTING FIREWOOD THIS AFTERNOON AT HOME WITH AXE. THEN PT C/O BACK PAIN. NO FIRE OR FIRE DEPT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2006 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE AND DEVELOPED LOW BACK PAIN LOW BACK SPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAQS UISNG AN AXE TO CUT UP A TREE AND BACK BEGAN TO H URT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2006 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CHOPPING AND DRAGGING WOOD 3 DAYS AGO, HAS LOWER BACK PAIN. DX: LOW BA CK STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT REACHED FOR AXE AND TWISTED. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2006 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE AT HOME, HAS BACK PAIN. DX: LOW BACK STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2006 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS USING AN AXE TO CHOP WOOD AND BACK BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT TWISTED BACK WHEN AXE CAME LOOSE WHILE CHOPPING WOOD. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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