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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 718
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT INJ RT HAND SHOVELING DIRST YESTERDAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT STS WAS SHOVELING DIRT AT HOME WEEK AGO,DEVELOPED BLISTERS TO PALM R HAND, C/O PAIN - DX R HAND CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PIECE OF *** FROM SHOVEL GOT STUCK IN PT'S HAND 2 DAYS AGO.DX: FB R HA ND W/CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Clothing accessories |
| PT INJURED HAND WHILE SHOVELING AND WAS WEARING GLOVES. DX: RIGHT HAND INFECTION WITH LYMPHANGITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Motor vehicles or parts |
| UNLOADING A SHOVEL AND RAKE OFF HIS TRUCK AND CUT HIS HAND DX L HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| WAS DIGGING A HOLE WITH A SHOVEL; INJURED HAND. CONTUSION, RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT INJ HAND WHILE TILING GARDEN DX: METACARPAL FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| FRACTURED HAND WHILE USING A KAISER BLADE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT DIGGING A HOLE WITH A PICK WHEN HIT A BOULDER. NOW WITH HAND/ARM NUM BNESS, TINGLING. D: NEUROPRAXIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 45YOM WAS HELPING FRIEND PUT UP A GREENHOUSE,WAS MOVING GARDEN TOOLS AROUND,BUMPING AND BANGING HAND;FAND FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS BENDING A METAL GARDEN TOOL AND IT BROKE IN HAND DX: HAND AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Alcohol |
| PT WAS DRINKING ALCOHOL WITH FRIENDS AND FELL OVER A SHOVEL SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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