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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 727
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/03/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| 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 |
| GRINDER SPUN METAL PIECE AROUND AND INJURED HAND AT HOME. DX; ABRASIO N HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2003 | 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Lawn mowers |
| PT GRINDING ON A LAWN MOWER EARLIER IN THE DAY WHEN HE GOT A PIECE OF M ETAL IN RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2003 | 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS GRINDING METAL AT HOME TWO DAYS AGO GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2003 | 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| GRINDING ON CAR AT HOME WITHOUT PROTECTIVE GLASSES, GOT METAL IN EYE. DX: FB EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Lawn mowers |
| PATIENT CUT THUMB ON GRINDER WHILE SHARPENING LAWNMOWER BLADE. DX: FRACTURE LEFT THUMB & 3 INCH LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 06/16/2003 | 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 |
| PT USING A GRINDER AT HOMW WITHOUT ANY PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR GOT A PIECE O F METAL IN RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EEY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| AT WELDING SCHOOL, USING CUTTING WHEEL ON DYE GRINDER CUTTING METAL, WHEEL FLEW OFF AND HIT PATIENT IN NECK. DX LACERATION OF NECK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2003 | 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 "DREMMEL" GRINDING ON METAL GOT A METAL SHAVING IN RI GHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER WHEN A PIECE OF THE GRINDING WHEEL BROKE OFF A ND WETN INTO LOWER LEG FOREIGN BODY LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2003 | Age: 18 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 GOT FB IN LT EYE WHILE USING GRINDING WHEEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PRESENTING MULTIPLES LACERATION TO LT .FOREARM WITH A POLISH ACCIDEDNTA LLY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2003 | 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Knives |
| USING GRINDER TO SHARPEN KNIFE, GOT FB IN EYE . WEARING GOGGLES. DX: FB EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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