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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 597
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2003 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| FX RT HAND-SUS INJ TO RT HAND AFTER DROPPIG A POWER TOOL ON IT AT HOME. C/O PAIN AND SWELLING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools, Heavy-duty workshop staplers |
| 19 Y M PUT 1 1/2 INCH STAPLE INTO HIS THIGH WITH POWER STAPLER DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVED FROM UPPER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| DX: PATIENT USEING SCREWGUN LOST CONTROL OF GUN AND TWISTED HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2003 | 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: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT C/O LEFT EYE PAIN DESCRIBED WORKING YEST CUTTING SOME WOOD AT HOME W ITH A POWER TOO FELT SOMETHING GO IN EYE LEFT CORNEAL EYE ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2003 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| RT INDEX FINGER ABRASION.PT WAS USING A VARNISHER AND INJURED FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| USING MOTORIZED WRENCH MACHINE AT HOME, TWISTED ARM AROUND, CRACKING IN R SHOULDER. DX SPRAINED R SHOULDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| HURT WITH A CLAW HAMMER. DX-L MIDDLE FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| LUMBAR STRAIN - 22 YOM C/O LOWER BACK PAIN AFTER USING A JACK HAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| FB SENSATION X 4 DAYS POSSIBLY METAL, HAD BEEN USING A PLASMA CUTTER/ RB RT EYE REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT USED JACK HAMMER AT FRIEND'S LAST WEEK AND IT FELL ON HIS HAND. DX: R HAND/WRIST CONT/HEMATOMA/ECCHYMOSIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2003 | Age: 22 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: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| CUT SELF ON FINGER WITH A POCKET TOOL DX FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT AT MOTHER'S HOUSE AND A JACKHAMMER FELL ON PT'S RT ANKLE DX: CONTUSI ON RT ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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