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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,364
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT WAS USING POWER DRILLWHICH KICKED BACK. DX: FX R FOURTH METACARPAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2002 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT WAS USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME AND DRILL SLIPPED AND CUT HIS FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL ON A PIECE OF METAL WHEN A FLECK OF THE METAL WE NT INTO RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PUNCTURE WOUND - 43 YOM LEFT HAND PUNCTURE BY DRILL THAT FELL WITH DRIL L BIT PUNCTURING ALL THE WAY THROUGH HAND, DRILL WAS NOT ON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2002 | Age: 48 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: Power drills or accessories |
| 48 Y/O MALE WAS AT HOME WHEN HE PUNCTURED HIS LT THUMB WITH AT BIT DRIV ER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| USING POWER DRILL, TWISTED ARM QUITE FORCEFULLY/ SPRAIN LT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Doors |
| F.B. (L) EYEBALL, PT DRILLING IN A DOOR, SOME PARTICLES FLEW INTO HIS EYEBALL AT HOME, C/O PAIN, HX OF SUICIDAL/HOMICIDAL IDELATIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2002 | Age: 41 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: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| LAC THUMB ON A POWER DRILL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| DEEP CUT TO FINGER BY AN ELECTRIC DRILL MOTOR DISTAL INDEX FINGER NEAR AMPUTATION OPEN FX 3.5 CM LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT CUT HAND WITH ELECTRIC DRILL, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| GOT SMALL DRILL BIT STUCK IN THROAT DURING DENTAL WORK DX: GOREIGN BODY THROAT |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| LT 3RD FINGER PUNCTURE WOUND-USING ELECTRIC DRILL W/ SCEWDRIVER BIT- IT SLIPPED AND HIT FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| DRILLING IN A SCREW WITHAN ELECTRIC POWER DRILL AND DRILL SLIPPED AND WENT INTO NAILBED DX: PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Ladders |
| INJ.SCALP AT HOME WHEN POWER DRILL FELL OFF A LADDER & HIT HIS HEAD. DX ; 1CM.LAC.SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Day wear |
| CRUSH INJ L ANTERIOR THIGH/48YOM C/O L THIGH INJ/POWER DRILL CONSTRICTE D HIS PANTS TO THE POINT OF BLANCHING L THIGH. NOW CIRCULATION RETURNED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| ELECTRIC DRILL BIT HIT RIGHT FOREARM PUNCTURE WOUND RIGHT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT SMASHED LEFT HAND WITH A POWER DRILL AT HOME ON SATURDAY CONTUSION H AND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PUNCTURE (L) 2ND FINGER, PT SUST INJURY WITH AN ELECTRIC DRILL AT HOME, C/O PAIN & NUMBNESS DISTALLY, UNABLE TO CREATE A FULL GRIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Eyeglasses |
| USING DRILL AT HOME, BIT CAUGHT AND BATTERY FROM DRILL STRUCK HIM IN TH E EYELID, HE HAD GLASSES ON AT THE TIME. DX LACERATION LEFT EYELID. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| LAC (L) FOREARM ,PT STS SUST INJURY WITH A ELECTRIC DRILL AT HOME, C/O BLEEDING & PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| BURNED HAND ON DRILL BIT; 2ND DEGREE BURNS LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT USING POWER DRILL AT HOME, LAC RT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| DRILL 'TORQUED' IN HAND DX. THUMB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT CUT FINGER WITH A DRILL; LAC FINGER, FX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Eye protection devices |
| USING POWER DRILL, WEARING SAFETY GLASSES, FB STILL WENT INTO EYE DX. F B EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| FX HAND WHEN USING DRILL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME AND ACCIDENTALLY DRILLED THRU THUMB DX THUM MB NAIL ALVULSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| POWER DRILL TWISTED IN HAND DX. HAND FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2002 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| HIT FINGER WITH POWER DRILL DX: LACERATION TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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