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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 292
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/09/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT CHOPPING WOOD WITH AN AXE AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN TREATED FOR CHES T PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CHEST WALL INJURY FROM CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE, HIT BY METAL FRAGMENT DX-LACERATION CHEST, FOREIGN BODY CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| PT WAS CUTTING WOOD DAY PRIOR TO ER VISIT WITH AXE. PT WAS TWISTING AN D SWINGING AXE NOW HAS PAIN IN RIBS. DX: RIB STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CHOPPING WOOD FOR CAMPFIRE YESTERDAY, DX: CHEST PAIN 2ND TO MUSCULOSKE LETAL STRAIN & CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT HAD BACK PX CHOPPING WOOD W/AXE. DX: THORACIC STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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