Accidents - Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers - 16-25 years old - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,862
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Eyeball:	1,869	Finger:	512
Upper Leg:	245	Hand:	86
Lower Trunk:	73	Lower Leg:	59
Lower Arm:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/29/2006	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: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
FOREIGN BODY EYE - 17 YO MALE CO PAIN, 0PHOTOPHOBIA, IRRITATION & WATER Y DISCHARGE - GOT METAL FB IN LEFT EYE WHEN GRINDING METAL YESTERDAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/26/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING, GOT SOMETHING IN R EYE DX: FB REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2006	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL AND SOME FLEW IN EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/22/2006	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN EYE WHILE USING A GRINDER DX: FB RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2006	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
FINGER LAC, PT INJURED FINGER ON FATHER'S GRINDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2006	Age: 21 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT IN ART CLASS POLISHING A STEEL SCULPTURE ON A POLISHER WHEN IT GOT AWAY FROM PT & PUNCTURED SHIN. D:PUNCTURE WOUND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2006	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL AT HOME AND GOT INTO EYE FOREIGN BODY RIGHT CORNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2006	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT FINGER ON SPINNING WORKSHOP GRINDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2006	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT RECEIVED A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE WHILE GRINDING. DX: CORNEAL SCRATCH FROM METAL SLIVER NOW OUT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/05/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF A FINGER FROM A GRINDER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/30/2006	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS USING A GRINDER IN SHOP CLASS AT SCHOOL AND CUT FINGER DX: SUPERFICIAL LACERATION TO LEFT MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2006	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LAC ARM USING A GRINDER AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/05/2006	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDER KICKED BACK AND FX HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT RECEIVEDMETAL IN EYE WHEN USING GRINDER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2006	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CONJUNCTIVAL FOREIGN BODY: AT FRIEND'S GRINDING METAL, GOT SOMETHING IN (L) EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT TO THIGH WHILE USING GRINDER AT HOME DX: LEG LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
ABRASION TO THE EYE FROM GRINDING METAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
LEFT INDEX FINGER LAC, PT CUT FINGER WHEN USING A GRINDER, LWOT.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 08/20/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING METAL AT HOME YESTERDAY AND HAS FB IN EYE DX// FB RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/13/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
CUT FINGER ON GRINDER/ LAC LIF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/07/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Metal or plastic molding sets
PT USING A GRINDER GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE FB RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Eye protection devices
GRINDING METAL AT HOME AND WEARING SAFETY GOGGLES AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
USING GRINDING WHEEL WHILE WORKING UNDER A CAR - NO SAFETY GLASSES IMMBEDDED METALLIC FB CORNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/17/2006	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
RT LEG LACERATION-DROPPED A GRINDER & CUT RT THIGH. SUS A 4CM & 1.5 CM LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/17/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL FB LT EYE REMOVED BY PT PTA/ LT EYE PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/2006	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT HIT THUMB ON GRINDER. DX: R THUMB DEEP AVULSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/13/2006	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
RT RING FINGERTIP AVULSION.PT INJURED FINGERTIP WHILE USING A GRINDER .
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/13/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING CONCRETE COLUMNS AT HOME WHEN SOMETHING GOT INTO EYE ON SUN DAY. CONTINUED PAIN. D: CORNEAL IRRITATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT C/O ABDOMEN PAIN. PT CUT ABDOMEN ON GRINDER. DX ABRASION ABDOMEN WAL L.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PAIN TO EYE GOT HIT WITH METAL WHILE USING GRINDER DX: CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL WITHOUT EYE PROTECTION YESTERDAY AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
USING A GRINDER AT HOME,GRITTY FB TO L EYE# OTHER GRINDER CODES EXPIRED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING @ HOME GOT FB IN EYES FX FB BOTH EYES CONJUNCTIVITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2006	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CUT FINGER ON GRINDER.DX: L INDEX LAC 2 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WS GRINDING PIECE F METAL - DX CORNEAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2006	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT CUT BY GRINDER; LAC FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL AT HOME, GOT FB IN EYE. DX: FB EYE WITH RESIDUE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/18/2006	Age: 25 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL AT HOME FB RT CORNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/27/2006	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PATIENT WAS GRINDING SOME METAL & FELT SOMETHING GO INTO HIS RT EYE. DX - CORNEAL ABRASION, LOWER EYELID SCLERAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
C/O RT EYE PAIN, HAS BEEN GRINDING METAL/ FB RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/20/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT USING GRINDER ON METAL AT HOME AND GOT METAL SHAVING IN EYE, HAS PAI N. DX: FB CORNEA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/20/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
DX LEFT INDEX FINGER LACERATION: USING METAL GRINDER AT HOME, GOT FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
F.B. EYE - GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHEN GRINDING
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 03/09/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING METAL WHEN GOT FOREIGN BODY IN EYE. D: FOREIGN BODY AND RUS T RING, EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2006	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT WAS USING A GRINDER AND IT SLIPPED LACERATING HIS RIGHT HAND. DX: LACERATION RIGHT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2006	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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts
WAS GRINDING METAL WITH AN ANGLE GRINDER UNDER CAR AND SOMETHING WENT INTO EYE DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/08/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
PT GRINDING WOOD AT SCHOOL WHEN HAND GOT CAUGHT IN GRINDER. D: SKIN AVU LSION, THUMB, INDEX FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/07/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL EYE FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/05/2006	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
GRINDING METAL AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2006	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
25YMC LOWERING A GRINDER WHILE IN USE AND IT STRUCK THIGH LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2006	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
AT WK SHOP IN SCHOOL, FINGER CAUGHT IN METAL GRINDER " LAC''
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
USING A GRINDER PIECE OF METAL IN EYE F'BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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