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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,474
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME AND MISSED HIS TARGET SUSTAINED A LACERA TION TO LEFT HAND WITH THE DRILL BIT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2006 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| 50 YOM DROPPED HAND DRILL ON R HAND FX R RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT CUT BASE OF LEFT THUMB WITH ELECTRIC DRILL BIT, PUNCTURE WOUND OF LEFT THUMB, CLEANED AND DRESSED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| SPRAIN & CONTUS R THUMB; @ HOME DOING BATHROOM REPAIR, USING DRILL WHIC H TURNED OUTWARD, FLEW OUT OF HAND HYPEREXTENDING THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| 32 YOM, USING A POWER DRILL YESTERDAY WHEN IT SLIPPED OND THE DRILL BIT WENT INTO THE TIP OF HIS FINGER DX: PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT WAS USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME INTO METAL AND A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO RIGHT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT WAS VISITING BOYFRIEND AT WORK AND GOT HIT IN HEAD WITH POWER DRILL LACERATION FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PUNCTURE WOUND FOREARM FROM A DRILL BIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT LAC LT HAND USING A POWER DRILL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, House repair or construction materials |
| 28 Y/O M INJURED (L) WRIST WHILE DRILLING PIECE OF METAL WITH DRILL AT HOME DX: LACERATION (L) WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2006 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PUNCTURE FINGER - PATIENT PRESENTS WITH PUNCTURE TO LEFT INDEX FINGER - HAD BEEN USING CORDLESS POWER DRILL AND ACCIDENT HIT FINGER WITH DRILL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2006 | 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: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| C/O PT STATES ACCIDENTLY HAD DRILL BIT GO THROUGH ARM DX LT LOWER ARM PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL; AND THE BIT WENT INTO RIGHT LOWER ARM PW ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2006 | 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: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT WAS DIGGING A HOLE WITH A GAS AUGER. NOT WORK RELATED -UNEMPLOYED D X. RIB STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2006 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| HAND LAC-CUT ON AUGER HANDLE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| FRACTURE HAND - 42 YOM WAS DRILLING AND DRILL BILL GRABBED AND STOPPED SPINNING BUT DRILL KEPT MOVING, C/O PAIN RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PORTABLE DRILL BATTERY FELL AND HIT PT IN HEAD DX: HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, Batteries |
| PT STATES PT DROPPED BATTERY FROM PORTABLE DRILL CAUSING PAIN DX:SUB ACUTE MENTAL STATUS FLARE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| ACCIDENTLY DRILLED INTO LT HAND WHILE WORKING ON HOUSE DX: PUNCTURE WOUND LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2006 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, Day wear |
| PT WAS USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME 10 DAYS AGO AND IT CAUGHT ON HER PAN TS WHICH CAUSED AN ABRASION AND IT GOT INFECTED CELLULITIS TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| CUT HAND ON A POWER DRILL. DX. L DISTAL PHALANX FX. L THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| SPRAIN WRIST - 31 YOM WAS USING A POWER DRILL WHEN IT KICKED BACK CAUSI NG INJURY TO LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| HAND PUNCTURE WOUND-HIT HAND W/A AN ELECTRIC DRILL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories, Alcohol |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL WHILE INTOXICATED SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT UPPER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT WAS TRYING TO REMOVE A DRILL BIT FROM AN ELECTRIC DRILL. DX. FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| USING CORDLESS DRILL TO DRILL METAL, METAL SLIPPED AND CUT HAND/ LAC LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2006 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL SUSTAINED A PW TO LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Portable power drills and accessories |
| PUNCTURE WOUND HAND - 42 YOM SUSTAINED A PUNTURE WOUND TO HIS RIGHT HAN D FROM A *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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