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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,300
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/01/2010 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 43YOM WAS USING PRUNING SHEARS WHEN HE ACCIDENTLY CUT LT HAND ON SHEARS;HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2010 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 67YOF PRUNING A PLUM TREE, DEVELOPED A RASH ON HER FOREARM DX. CONTACT DERMATITIS FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2010 | Age: 64 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 pruning or trimming equipment |
| LACERATION HAND - 64 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH CUT TO LEFT HAND - WAS PRUNI NG A TREE AT HOME AND THE POWER PRUINING SAW SLIPPED CUTTING HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 42YOF-HAND LAC-CUT ON ELECTRIC TRIMMER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2010 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 52 Y/O/F CUT HAND ON GARDENING SHEARS AT HOME DX/ RT HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2010 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 23 YOM HAND LAC, USING PRUNING SHEERS AND CUT HIS HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2010 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 14 YOM, LACERATION FINGER, PT. STATES WAS PRUNING PLANTS AT FRIENDS HOU SE, CUT TIP OF FINGER WITH PRUNING SHEARS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 42 Y/O W/M RECEIVED SNAKE BITE WHEN *** AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/16/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 17YOM HIT HEAD ON TREE LIMB WHILE TRIMMING TREE AT HOME CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2010 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION, OD: 61YOF SOMETHING IN EYE LAST PM AFTER WORKING IN YARD CUT' IVY. WOKE W/ FB SENSATION & SOME EDEMA OF R UPPER EYELID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2010 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 82YOM CUT L5TH FINGER ON PRUNING SHEERS AT HOME DX- AVULSION INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2010 | Age: 56 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 pruning or trimming equipment |
| 56YOM,LACERATION TO LEFT HAND S/P ACCIDENTALLY CUT HAND W/ PRUNERS WHILE WORKING IN HIS YARD @ HOME,NO OTHER INJURIES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2010 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| R LEG LAC/39YOM STS AT HOME CUT R UPPER LEG WITH POWER SHEARS AT ABOUT 12:30P. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2010 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 87 YOM-HAND INJURY FROM STRING TRIMMER @ HOME DX HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2010 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 52YO WHITE MALE USING POWER TRIMMER AT HOME CUT R INDEX FINGER DX R LONG FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2010 | 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 pruning or trimming equipment |
| LEFT INDEX FINGER LAC.59YOM WAS USING PRUNING SHEARS AND LACERATED FING ER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 22YOM WAS PRUNING A TREE, BRANCH BROKE TRAPPING HIM BETWEEN TREE TRUNK & BRANCH (100 LBS) C/O LOWER ABD PAIN. DX - CRUSH INJURY ABD/BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/15/2010 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 55YOM,1CM LACERATION TO LEFT 5TH FINGER S/P CUT FINGER WITH HEDGE TRIMMERS,LACERATION REPAIRED WITH 2 SUTURES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2010 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| INSECT BITE FOREHEAD - 75 YO FEMALE WAS PRUINING A FLOWER BUSH AT HOME AND WAS STUNG BY AN INSECT - PRESENTS WITH FOREHEAD SWELLLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2010 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 25 YOM WAS USING A YARD TRIMMER AT HOME AND ACCIDENTALLY CUT THUMB. LAC ERATION, LEFT THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2010 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| TRAUMA RT.EYE.55YOM.PT.REFERS WHILE USING TRIMMER,A PIECE ROCK FELL ON EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 35YOM TRIPPED AND FELL IN GARAGE HITTING R INDEX FINGER ON GARDENING SH EARS HAS LAC TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| A 17 YOM WAS ELECTROCUTED IN THE HAND WHILE PRUNING BRANCHES. DX: ELECTROCUTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2010 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 60 YOM PRESENT TO ER HE WAS TRIMMING A TREE YESTERDAY AND FELT SOMETHIN G IN HIS RT EYE- DX- CONTUSION AND ABRASION TO EYEBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2010 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 7YOM; PT WAS HELPING GRANDPA SHARPEN SOME PRUNING SHEARS, CUT THUMB. D : FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2010 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power pruning or trimming equipment |
| 49 Y/O/M CUT FINGER WITH ELECTRIC TRIMMER AT HOME WHILE CUTTING BUSHES DX/ RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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