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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 785
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/23/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| WHILE GRINDING TRUCK PART PIECE OF METAL GOT INTO RT. EYE DX: FOREIGN BODY RT. EYE W/ CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT IS A RACE CAR DRIVER AND WAS USING A POWER GRINDER ON THE WHEELWHEEL OF HIS RACE CAR GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| SOMETHING FLEW UP FROM PORTABLE POWERED GRINDER DX. FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER AT HOME ON SOME METAL GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2002 | 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS USING POWER ANGLE GRINDER W/4" DISK BLADED CHAINSAW ATTATCHMENT & IT HIT HAND. DX: INDEX LAC 5.5 CM W/TENDON, #3 LAC 5 CM, #4 LAC 2 C |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 20 YO WM - DX" AVULSION LACERATION L THUMB - ELECTRICAL GRINDER BRUSHED THE TIP OF DIGIT REMOVING SKIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER AGAINST SOME METAL GOT A PIECE IN LEFT EYE FOR EIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| C/O FB TO LT EYE. WAS GRINDING METAL WITHOUT SAFETY GLASSES. DX; FB LTE YE-RESOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LEFT HAND LACERATION.PT WAS USING A GRINDING WHEEL IN SCHOOL AND LACERA TED HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| SOMETHING FLEW UP FROM POWER GRINDER DX. CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2002 | 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: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LACERATION LEFT INDEX FINGER, CUT FINGER ON AN ANGLE GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT SCHOOL DURING SHOP AND WAS USING GRINDER AND CUT HIS RIGHT TH UMB. D: LACERATION TO RIGHT THUMB / S/P REPAIRED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 8CM LAC LT KNEE, WHEN THE GRINDING WHEEL HE WAS HOLDING SLIPPED & TOUCH ED THE SOFT TISSUE ABOVE LT KNEE CAP@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2002 | Age: 22 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| # 22YOM RT HAND CUTS/ABRASIONS FROM GRINDER DX-CONTUSION RT HAND/LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| GRINDING METAL 2 DAYS AGO AND NOW HAS PIECE OF METAL IN EYE DX FOREIGN BODY IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS INJURED USING A GRINDER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| HIT FINGER WITH GRINDER DX. FINGER ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| GRINDING METAL AT SCHOOL, GOT FB IN EYE. DX: FB EYE REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| CAUGHT FINGER ON GRINDER/SKIN AND PARTIAL NAIL AVULSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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