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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 950
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT CAUGHT FINGER IN A LEAF MULCHER AT HOME DX: FRACTURED LEFT RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT W/LAC TO R FA, PT CUT ARM ON WOOD CHIPPER TODAY. DX. LAC R FA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT STANDING ON THE SIDE OF A WOOD SHREDDER AND A PIECE THE SIZE OF A BA SEBALL STRUCK HIM IN THE HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT CAUGHT HAND IN WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME DX/ RIGHT HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| FOREARM CT-HIT W/A TREE BRANCH WHILE "CHIPPING" LIMBS-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders, Motor vehicles or parts |
| HIP LAC-LOST BALANCE & FELL WHILE TAKING A WOOD CHIPPER FROM CAR-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | 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: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| YESTERDAY WAS RAKING LEAVES, TODAY AWOKE WITH SHARP LEFT SIDED CHEST WA LL PAIN >>MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 49 YO M STRAINED KNEE TWISTED WHILE STARTING HIS CHIPPER/SPREADER AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders, Beds or bedframes |
| PT WAS OUTSIDE YEST GRINDING IN HIS YARD, LAST NIGHT WHEN HE WENT TO BE D HE RUBBED HIS EYES AND FELT PARTICLE FALL IN EYE. DX. FB EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| WAS USING A WOOD CHIPPER AND PIECE OF WOOD GOT INTO (L) EYE DX- CORNE AL ABRA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders, Alcohol |
| PT WAS INTOXICATED WORKING WITH A WOOD CHIPPER IN HIS SHED AT HOM AND G OT HAND CAUGHT IN IT SUSTAINED EXTENSIVE FINGER AVULSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| LEFT 5TH FINGER LAC, PT CUT FINGER WHEN USING A CHIPPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| CLOSED HEAD INJURY - 18 YO MALE WAS STRUCK IN HEAD BEHIND RT EAR BY OBJ ECT THROWN FROM CHIPPER MACHINE 1/2 HR PTA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 62 YO MALE FELL AGAINST WOOD CHIPPER FRACTURE RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| RIGHT BICEP STR. PT STRAINED UPPER ARM WHEN LIFTING A CHIPPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT CUT FINGER ON A WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME DX// LAC RIGHT 3RD FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders, Tablet or capsule drugs |
| L HAND LAC/49YOM INJURED HAND AT HOME WHILE WORKING ON A WOOD CHIPPER T ONIGHT AT 7P. PT ON ***/*** AND UNABLE TO STOP BLEEDING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| HAND LAC, PT GOT HAND CAUGHT IN A WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME WHEN WORKING IN YARD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT WAS USING LEAF SHREDDER AND GOT FINGER CAUGHT AT HOME DX LACERATION LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| SUDDEN ONSET OF EYE FOREIGN BODY SESNATION STATUS POST USING WOODCHIPPE R>>CORNEAL ABRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2008 | 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: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders, Portable circular power saws |
| PT WAS USING A CIRCULAR SAW ON LIMPS WITH A WOODCHIPPER UNDERNEAT THE S AW AND AMPUTATED THUMB AND INDEX FINGER WENT INTO THE CHIPPER- AMP FING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/10/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| LAC TO L INDEX FINGER W/WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME DX; FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 51 YOM WAS USING A WOOD CHIPPER AND SUSTAINED AMPUTATION OF FINGERS RIG HT THUMB AND INDEX |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 01/09/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 45 Y/O M INJURED L 3RD FINGER WHILE USING WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME. DX; L 3RD FINGER FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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