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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 571
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/22/2004 | Age: 41 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT CHIPPING METAL YESTERDAY WHEN A METAL FRAGMENT CAME OFF WEDGE AND LO DGED IN CALF. D: FOREIGN BODY, LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PUNCTURE WOUND - 42 YOM ACCIDENTALLY STABBED HIS LEFT LOWER LEG ON A PI TCH FORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2004 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT LEG WITH A SHOVEL DX: R LOWER LEG ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2004 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HER RT LWR LEG WAS PUNCTURED WITH A PITCHFORK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2004 | Age: 41 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 41 YOWM ACCIDENTALLY "JABBED " HIMSELF W/ A PITCHFORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Farm/ranch | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WALKED INTO PITCH FORK LAYING ON GROUND C/O LEFT LOWER LEG WOUND LEF T LOWER LEG PUCNTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FELL ON PITCHFORK CLEANING HER CHICKEN HOUSE LACERATION TO RIGHT CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2004 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CUT TO LOWER LEG HIT ON EDGE OF SHOVEL DX: LACERATION TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2004 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| TRIP OVER SHOVEL LEG CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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