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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 206
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/13/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| WHILE MOVING A DRYER, PATIENT GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT IN DRYER DOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2003 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| LEFT HAND CONTUSION.PT HAD A DRYER DOOR CLOSE ON HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT CUT TOP OF RIGHT HAND ON METAL DRYER R DORSUM OF HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2003 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| LAC TO HAND WHEN STRUCK ON CLOTHES DRYER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2003 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| 39 YO MALE GOT HAND CAUGHT IN DRYER HANDLE SPRAIN LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT TOUCHED BACK OF DRYER AND HAS HAND PX. DX: PT LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/12/2003 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Clothes dryers |
| PT STATES HE SMELLED SMOKE FROM DRYER, OPENED IT UP AND IT WAS A FIRE DX ELECTRIC BURN ON HAND NO FIRE DEPT WAS CALLED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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