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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 618
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/17/2010 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 31YOM LOADING A BOARD INTO A CHIPPER WHEN THE CHIPPER KICKED IT BACK STRIKING CHIN;CHIN LACERATION AND CONTUSION 1CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2009 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PATIENT STATES WAS HIT BY SOMETHING THROWN FROM MULCHER ON FACE. DX: 2.5 CM LACERATION TO RIGHT CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT WITH LAC TO CHIN FROM FLYING WOOD COMING OUT OF A WOOD CHIPPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PT DX FACILA LACERATION - S/P DUE TO FALLING AT HOME,HEAD FALL ON SHREDDER PTA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2009 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| TRANSEFERRED TO HOSP BY A HELICOPTER AS FTR S/P RUN OVER BY A WOOD CHIP PER, INTUBATED FOR AIRWAY PORTECTION>>MULTI FACIAL BONE FX/LACS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/25/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| NOT W/COMP USING WOODCHIPPER FB IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2004 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| GOT HIT IN FACE WITH PIECE OF WOOD WHILE USING WOOD CHIPPER DX: LACERAT ION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2003 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| HIT FACE WITH BRANCH WHILE USING CHIPPER DX: CONTUSION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2002 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders, Eye protection devices |
| FACIAL LAC, PT WAS USING A WOOD CHIPPER WHEN WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND WAS HIT IN THE FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/1999 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/1998 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/1998 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/1998 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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