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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 159
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 01/27/2008 | Age: 24 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| SUST'D CUT TO LEG WHILE GRINDING METAL @ HOM, ?MECH >> LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING AN ELECTRIC HANDHELD GRINDER WHEN IT SLIPPED NAD INJURED LEG A ND ARM. D:LACERATION, SHIN, FOREARM ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PATIENT WORKING ON CAR USING POWER GRINDER, SLIPPED OUT OF HAND HTTING LOWER LEG; LEG LAC. |
| 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 |
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