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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 455
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hammers |
| PAIN WHILE HAMMERING DX. FOREARM STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2003 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PIECE OF STEEL CHIP FROM HAMMER STUCK IN L ARM DX: L ARM FOREIGN BODY REMOVED / PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT HAMMERING AT HOME, GOT PIECE OF WOOD CHIP INTO LT LOWER ARM, FB LOWE R ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PATIENT WAS HAMMERING WHILE AT GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE AND A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO HIS LOWER ARM. DX-FOREIGN BODY LOWER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY HIT ON FOREARM WITH 10 LB SLEDGEHAMMER 4 DAYS AGO WHILE WORKING AT HOME. D: FOREARM CONTUSION, NEUROPRAXIA, TENOSYNOVITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2003 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hammers |
| HIT WITH SLEDGE HAMMER DX - DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PIECE OF HAMMER BROKE OFF AND HIT PT'S ARM. DX: FB L ARM W/PW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2003 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT GOT PIECE OR STEEL IN LT FOREARM ARM WHILE HITTING IT WITH A HAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2003 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT SUST LACERATION TO FOREARM HIT WITH HAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2003 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| 27YOM USING A HAMMER ON BEARING AT HOME FB TO ARM DX FB ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hammers |
| WORKING ON HIS CAR WITH A HAMMER WHEN HE PUNCTURED HIS FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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