Accidents - Plants, trees and shrubs - Years 1997-2010 - Lower Leg

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,052
See also: Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 2006:	675
Year 2007:	890
Year 2008:	487

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	6
6-15 years old:	451
16-25 years old:	324
26-50 years old:	833
50+ years old:	437

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 11/03/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Exercise
SLIPPED ON LEAVES WHILE HIKING. DX FIBULA FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/21/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools
CHOPPING DOWN A TREE AND THE TREE HIT HIS LOWER LEG. DX CONTUSION L SHIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/19/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Adhesives
PT FELL OUT OF TREE AT GRANDPARENTS HOUSE, NOW W/LAC TO SHIN, PT STATES GRANDFATHER PUT * ON WOUND, * REMOVED; SHIN LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/17/2008	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Hand saws
PT WITH CELLULITIS TO LEG, WAS CUTTING A TREE BRANCH WITH A HAND SAW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2008	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, All-terrain vehicles
11 YO MALE HIT A TREE WHILE RIDING *** FRACTURE TIBIA FRACTURE TIBIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/28/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws
CUTTING DOWN A SMALL TREE NEAR A FENCE CHAINSAW GOT CAUGHT IN FENCE AND KICKED BACK. DX LEG LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2008	Age: 21 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: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Containers
PT STATES A BRANCH FELL OFF TREE, HIT STREETLIGHT, BOUNCED OFF AND HIT PTS LEG WHILE HE WAS SITTING ON A CRATE, CONTUSION TO LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/27/2008	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Exercise
PT, WHO HAD BEEN HIKING, BRUSHED UP AGAINST BARREL CACTUS WITH SIN. D:P UNCTURE WOUND, LEG, POSSIBLE RETAINED FOREIGN BODY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/07/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Horseback riding
PT WAS HIT UNDER KNEE WITH TREE BRANCH WHILE RIDING HORSE C/O PAIN & BRUISING TO LT LOWER LEG. DX - LT LEG CONTUSION, CELLULITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools
TIBIA FX-CUTTING DOWN A TREE-TREE FELL ON PT-PT PINNED UNDER TREE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/08/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Exercise
PT WAS HIKING AND FELL INTO CHOLLA CACTUS. CACTUS NEEDLES IN LOWER LEG. D: CACTUS NEEDLE INJURY (ABRASIONS)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2008	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Snow boarding
PT WITH FRACTURED LEG, WAS SNOWBOARDING, HIT A TREE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/22/2007	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Knives
39 YOM WAS CUTTING BRANCHES OFF A CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN THE KNIFE SLIP- PED CUT HIS RT LOWER LEG. DX-LACERATION TO RT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2007	Age: 51 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Exercise
SCRATCHED LLE ONTO A TREE WHILE HIKING >> LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/04/2007	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, House repair or construction materials
PT TRIPPED OVER A BUSH & FELL INTO CINDER BLOCK INJURING CALF DX DEEP LACERATION TO RIGHT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2007	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Day wear
PT WAS BURNING A TREE STUMP AND HOT AMBERS BURNED THRU PT PANTS DX 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO LEFT LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2007	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Fences or fence posts
PT WAS CLIMBING A TREE AND SCRAPPED LEG ON A GATE. D: ABRASION RIGHT LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/27/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Bicycles or accessories
PT WAS RIDING BIKE AND HIT A TREE DX; AB RT LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2007	Age: 8 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: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Bicycles or accessories
PT X TODAY WHILE ON A BIKE WRECKED INTO A TREE SUS LEG INJURY.DX. CLOSE D FX OF THE RIGHT FIBULA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/28/2007	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Power lawn mowers
LAC TO LEG WHENS TRUCK ON A TREE WHEN CUTTING GRASS WITH A POWERED LAWN MOWER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2007	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Rope or string
PT WAS SWINGING ON A ROPE YESTERDAY AND LEFT LEG HIT A TREE BRANCH -PT STILL HAS PAIN TO LEG. D: CELLULITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2007	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Lawn mowers
PT CUTTING HIS GRASS AND STRUCK A SMALL BUSH WITH RIGHT LOWER LEG AND S USTAINED A LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2007	Age: 60 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: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools
SUSPECT L TIBIA FX; L KNEE EFFUSION:L TIBIA ABRA'S: CUTTING DOWN TREE AT SON'S HOUSE, TREE HIT SHIN AND L KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2007	Age: 47 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: Foreign Body
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment
PT TRIMMING TREES WHEN GOT MESQUITE THORN IN LOWER LEG S/P STEPPING ON A BRANCH. D:FOREIGN BODY, LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/08/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Treehouses or playhouses
PATIENT IN A TREE AND LOST FOOTING HIT LEG ON BRANCH, OR FOOT WENT THRU HOLE IN A TREE HOUSE CAUSING 4" LAC W/VISIBLE BONE; LOWER LEG LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2007	Age: 23 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: Foreign Body
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Telephones or telephone accessories
PT RAN THROUGH GARDEN TO ANSWER PHONE AND RAN INTO CACTUS. D:FOREIGN BO DIES, CALF, ABRASIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/23/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
THORN IN LEG; STATES IN YARD PLAYING PAINTBALL, SAT BY TREE WITH THORNS -DID'NT REALIZE IT TILL ONE STUCK IN LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2007	Age: 11 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Go-carts
PT RIDING GO CART AT HOME AND INJURED LEG ON A TREE BRANCH DX// LAC LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2007	Age: 25 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: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools
RT LEG CONTUSION: XRAY TIB/FIB, CUTTING DOWN TREES AT HOME, GOT LEG STUCK BETWEEN; TOP OF TREE HAD TO BE CUT OFF TO GET LEG OUT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/05/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Bicycles or accessories
17 YOM WAS RIDING BIKE ON SIDEWALK AND BRUSHED AGAINST A BUSH GETTING A THORN IN RIGHT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2007	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: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools
PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE CUTTING DOWN A TREE BRANCH FELL HITTING PT/DX CO NTUSIONS ABRASIONS LEG AND BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/18/2007	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Sleds
SLEDDING DOWN HILL AND HIT TREE. DX FX TIBIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2007	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment
PT WAS TRIMMING SOME TREES AT HOME WHEN A LIMB FELL ON HIM. DX. TIB/ FI B FX.
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 11/04/2006	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Day wear
PATIENT WENT UP A TREE TO GET HIS FATHER WHO HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED AND HIS PANTS LEG CAUGHT ON FIRE BURNING HIM. DX-1ST & 2ND DEG.-LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2006	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Ladders
PUNCTURE WOUND RT LOWER LEG-C/O PAIN AND ABSCESS TO RT LOWER LEG WHERE HE WAS STUCK BY A ROSE BUSH WHILE ON LADDER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2006	Age: 46 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment
PT TRIMMING TREE AT SISTER'S HOUSE WHEN TREE SPLIT AND LACERATED LOWER LEG. D: LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/23/2006	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Ladders
PT WAS PICKING PEACHES FROM A TREE AND FELL DOWN 2 STEPS OF LADDER DX: ACUTE TIB / FIB FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2006	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Mopeds or power-assisted cycles
WHILE RIDING MOPED , HIT TREE AND FELL OFF DX; TIBIA FX
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 07/13/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chains
PULLING TREE ROOT WITH CHAIN, CHAIN BROKE HITTING PATIENT. DC-CONTUSION LOWER LEG, HAND ABRASIONS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2006	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Two-wheeled, powered, off-road vehicles
PT IN WOODS WHILE RIDING DIRT BIKE HIT LEG ON A TREE DX LAC L LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2006	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws
LOWER LEG LAC-CUTTING DOWN A TREE-HIT LEG W/A CHAIN SAW-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2006	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Two-wheeled, powered, off-road vehicles
LEG STRUCK A TREE WHILE RIDING DIRTBIKE DX: L LOWER LEG LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2006	Age: 55 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Lawn mowers
R LEG LAC/55YOM BACKED INTO A BUSH WITH LAWN MOWER AND SUSTAINED LAC R LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2006	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Mountain or all-terrain bicycles or accessories
UNHELMETED DRIVER OF MOUNTAIN BIKE THAT STRUCK A TREE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/25/2006	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Sleds
SLEDDING IN CANYON SUST INJ TO R LEG WHEN HIT TREE DX R TIBIAL PLATEAU FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/30/2006	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Fences or fence posts
PT. WAS CLIMBING A TREE AND FELL AND HIT HER LOWER LEG ON A FENCE DIAGNOSIS; DERMATITIS LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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