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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 506
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/23/2009 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF THE FOREHEAD BY STRIKING SELF WITH AXES HA NDLE WHILE CAMPING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2009 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT WAS BUSTING WOOD WITH AXE AT HOME WHEN HE GOT HIT BETWEEN THE EYES. DX. SUBCUTANEOUS HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2009 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL WHILE CARRYING AN AXE. DX: MINIMALLY DISPLACED FX NASAL BONES, MICROCYTIC ANEMIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2009 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT WAS STANDIN BEHIND HER BROHTER WHO WAS CUTTING A TREE WITH AN AXE HE SWUNK THE AXE HIT HER IN FACE LACERATION FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| FACE LAC-HATCHETING WOOD-HIT FACE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2009 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes, Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| PT WAS CHOPPING WOOD, AX GOT CAUGHT IN CLOTHES LINE & FELL, CAUSED LACERATION ABOVE EYEBROW DX: LACERATION REPAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| EYEBROW LAC, PT WAS USING AN AXE TO CHOP WOOD AND INJURED FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2009 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT HIT SELF IN FOREHEAD WITH HANDLE OF AXE AT HOME DX// FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2009 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT WAS DIGGING HOLE WITH AXE AND HIT EYE LACERATION EYEBROW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2009 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes, Ceilings and walls |
| PT KNOCKED AN AXE OFF THE WALL WHILE CLEANING GARAGE. DX: FOREHEAD LAC 3 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2009 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| OPEN NASAL FX/58YOM AT HOME WAS CHOPPING WOOD AND HATCHET BOUNCED BACK AND BLUNT END HIT NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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