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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,115
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/21/2009 | Age: 19 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| ACC GOT RT INDEX FINGER CAUGHT INTO HEDGE TRIMMER WHILE TRIMMING THE HE DGES>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| LEFT EAR INJURY ; OLDER BROTHER WAS PLAYING AROUND WITH PT AND STUCK SO ME *** STRING IN HIS EAR. D: TYMPANIC MEMBRANE TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PATIENT WAS SHOCKED WITH 220 VOLTS AT AT HOME WHILE ***.DX-ELECTRICAL S HOCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT *** & A ROCK FLEW IN (R) EYE DX;# F.B. REMOVAL (R) EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2009 | 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| ACUTE ALLERGIC CONTACT DERMATITIS: HAS BEEN OUT ***, RASH (3)DAYS FACE, EYES SWOLLEN, ARMS/LEGS, @ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| RIGHT GROIN STR. PT STRAINED GROIN WHEN SLIPPING IN WET GRASS WHEN WEED WACKING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2009 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| EYE FB-DEBRIS IN EYE WHILE ***-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| *** AT HOME, STEPPED IN A HOLE, HEARD KNEE POP AND FELL.DX-SPRAIN RIGHT KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FB TO EYE, PT WAS USING *** AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2009 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| BURNING,ITCHING ON FOREHEAD AFTER WEEDEATING DERMATITIS * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| LAC LWR LEG W/ *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2009 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| GOT TOO HOT *** HIS YARD FOR 6 HOURS, HEADACHE 7 VOMITING,DIZZINESS. DX -HEAT EXHAUSTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS STUNG ON ARM BY BEES WHILE *** AT HOMEDX: BEE STINGS TO LEFT FOR EARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FELL OFF OF ROCK USING *** AT HOME INJURING KNEE. DX: INTERNALDERANGEM ENT KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2009 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE *** AT HOME. DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| RHUS DERMATITIS:17YOM WAS WEED TRIMMING 2 DAYS AGO, NOW HAS BLISTERY RASH TO ARMS & CHEST, ITCHY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT CUT R HAND ON *** AT HOME. DX. LAC R HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT USING A *** AT HOME WHEN AN UNKNOWN OBJECT STRUCK HIM IN THELIP LACE RATION LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HAND LAC, PT CUT HAND WHEN USING A ***. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2009 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS *** AND HIT ANKLE DX: CONTUSION TO LEFT ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| NONSPECIFIC DERMATITIS: POSS. CONTACT DERMATITIS; 22YOF DEVELOPED RASH, FOREARM, YESTERDAY WAS *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS USING A *** YESTERDAY AT HOME NOW HAS PAIN AND WATERY TO HIS RIG HT EYE DX RIGHT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 22Y/O,M,SORE EYE SINCE WEED-WHAKING, THINKS GRASS OR WEED WAS IN EYE, C ONJUNCTIVITIS OD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2009 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT *** AT HOME AND A ROCK HIT HIM IN THE EYEDX/ RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRAS ION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS WEED EATING AND PIECE OF METAL HIT PT IN CHEEK FOREIGN BODY C HEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| WAS STANDING TOO CLOSE TO *** AND WAS HIT ON THE EAR RIGHT TIPANIC PERF ORATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| LT HAND INJURY: WORKING ON ***, CLUTCH POPPED OPEN, INJURED 5TH DIGIT, AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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