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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,155
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2010 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 77YOM WAS TRIMMING TREE TOP WHEN LADDER SLIP & HE FELL ONTO LT SIDE ABOUT 15 FT SUSTAINING A LT ABDOMINAL WALL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/01/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PARALUMBAR STRAIN S/P FALL: 48YOM TRIMMING TREES,HAD ROPE & HARNESS ON, SLIPPED, FELL 10 FT,CAUGHT BY HARNESS,HIT TREE W/R LEG,PAIN PARALUMBAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2010 | Age: 49 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: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 49YOM FELL WHILE TRIMMING TREES NOW HAVING PAIN DOWN LOWER BACK SCIATIC A |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2010 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 75YOF HAD BEEN PRUNING HER SHRUBS AT HOME, VBENT OVER AND COULDN'T STRAIGHTEN UP. DX. LOW BACK STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LOWER BACK PAIN TODAY AFTER TRIMMING BUSHES LUMBAR STRAIN 35YOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2010 | Age: 39 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 39YOM TRIMMING A TREE WHILE IN THE TREE AND FELL OUT STYRAINED LOWER BA CK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2010 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| CONTACT DERMATITIS: 31YOF C/O RASH FOR ALMOST A WEEK NOW, STARTED AFTER TRIMMING MOTHER'S HEDGES, ABDOMEN & LEGS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2010 | Age: 29 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| MUSCLE STR LOW BACK/29YOM ABOUT 20 MIN AGO WAS TRIMMING HEDGES AND FELT A SUDDEN POP L SIDE OF ABDOMEN. RADIATES L THIGH/L ABDOMEN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2010 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 24 Y/O FEMALE STATES WAS BENDING OVER CLIPPED GRASS WITH HEDGE TRIMMER & HAD SUDDEN BACK PAIN DX: ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2010 | Age: 86 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: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 86 YOM SPRAIN HIS ABDOMINAL WALL WHILE TRIMMING BUSHES AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2010 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LUMBAR STR. 51 YOM STRAINED BACK WHEN TRIMMING TREES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2010 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.74YOM WAS USING AN ELECTRIC EDGER ON YARD AND BACK BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2010 | Age: 28 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment, Ladders |
| 28YOM HELPING A NEIGHBOR TRIM TREES AND FELL TEN FEET OFF A LADDER AND SUSTAINED A CONTUSION TO BUTTOCKS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2010 | Age: 33 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: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 33YOM,STRAINED HIS HIP AFTER HE WAS CUTTING HIS GRASS ALSO HAS PAIN RADIATING TO HIS LOWER LEG,HX OF SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2010 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 43YOF STATES WAS TRIMMING TREE LIMBS DX LOWER TRUNK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2010 | 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: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 47 YOM-PT INJURED BACK MOVING BRUSH YESTERDAY WHILE TRIMMING HEDGE @ H OME DX LUMBOSACRAL STRAIN * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2010 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 30 YO M FELL 12 FEET OUT OF TREE WHILE TRIMMING PALM TREE. BACK AND HEE L PAIN. DX:LUMBOSACRAL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 42 YO F BENT OVER PICKED UP CLIPPERS, HURT BACK. DX LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2010 | Age: 71 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: Fracture |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 71 YO M FELL TRIMMING A TREE, HURT BACK. DX L4 FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/25/2010 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 57 YOM WAS TRIMMING A TREE AND THE BRANCH HIT LOW BACK AND PINNED HIM T O THE GROUND/ PAIN TO LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2010 | Age: 26 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Pruning or trimming equipment |
| 26YOM TRIMMING TREES YESTERDAY AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER BACK STRAINE D BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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