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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 98
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/12/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes, Clotheslines or clothes drying racks |
| 35 YOWM WAS USING AN AXE TO BREAK UP CONCRETE WHEN THE AXE BECAME CAUGH T IN A CLOTHES LINE AND "RECOILD BACK ON PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes, Ceilings and walls |
| SCALP LACERATION- HEAD INJURY- SUSTAINED WHEN HE FLUNG A PICK AXE OV ER HIS SHOULDER , HIT THE CEILING AND FELL ON HIS HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| HIT SELF WITH AXE DX. HEAD CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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