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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 412
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/24/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Log splitters |
| PT MASHED R HAND IN WOOD SPLITTER AT HOME, BLISTER TO R THUMB. DX. CON T R HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Log splitters |
| PT WAS AT HOME, GOT HAND CAUGHT IN A LOG SPLITTER CAUSING A CONTUSION TO LT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Log splitters |
| PT CUT HAND WHILE CUTTING WOOD WITH A WOOD SPLITTER DX: HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Log splitters |
| PT BURNED HAND ON LOG SPLITTER AT HOME DX// BURN LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Log splitters |
| PT INJURED HAND WITH A LOG SPLITTER. DX: LEFT HAND OPEN MID-SHAFT FRACTURE OF THE 2ND AND 3RD METACARPALS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Log splitters |
| PT GOT LEFT GLOVED HAND CAUGHT IN A WOOD SPLITTER @ HOME DX; LEFT HAND CRUSH INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Log splitters |
| PT WAS HELPING DAD W/WOOD SPLITTER AND HAND WAS CRUSHED. DX: R HAND CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Log splitters |
| LEFT HAND CRUSHING. PT WAS USING A WOOD SPLITTER AND INJURED HAND AT HO ME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2008 | Age: 59 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: Log splitters |
| DX HAND LAC: HAND LAC WHILE CHOPPING WOOD AT HOME, THE WOOD SPLITTER STRUCK HIS L HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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