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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 311
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/10/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 48 Y/O MALE STATES WAS USING A BUFFER 2 DAYS AGO AND INJURED BACK DX: LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2010 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 28 YOM WAS WORKING ON HIS TRUCK AND GRINDER WENT ACROSS HIS ABDOMEN LAST WEEK. DX: CELLULITIS ANTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2010 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| LOW BACK PAIN: 45YOM TWISTED BACK TODAY WHEN BUFFING HIS SEMI TRUCK ABOVE HEAD @ FRIEND'S HOUSE USING A BUFFER, LOWER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS USING A GRINDER; WHEEL OF GRINDER BROKE OFF STRIKING PT IN HIP DX: HIP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2009 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Day wear |
| GRINDING METAL, SHIRT GOT CAUGHT IN GRINDER, PULLED HIM IN AND CUT ABD. DX ABD LACERATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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