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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,171
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2010 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Computers |
| 34 YOF INJURED HAND PLAYING ***. DX: R HAND CONT/SPRAIN. DX: R HAND CONT/SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/28/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 35YOF INJURED HAND PLAYING WITH *** LAST NIGHT. DX. HAND CONTUSION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2010 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 2 YOF DX HEAD CONTUSION - CLOSING LAPTOP ON HAND AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2010 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| HAND CT-53YOF MOVING A COMPUTER AND SMASHED FINGERS WITH THE MONITOR AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2010 | Age: 20 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: Computers, Knives |
| DX LAC HAND, R (REPAIRED): 20YOM FULL THICKNESS LAC TO BASE OF R THUMB: W CUT'G NEW VIDEO GAME CONTAINER W CLEAN KNIFE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2010 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 13 YO F FELL PLAYING ON *** AT HOME. DX HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2010 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Computers |
| 47 Y/O FEMALE WAS UPSET & PUNCHED A COMPUTER MONITOR INJURING HAND AT HOME DX: SPRAINED RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Computers |
| 42YOM USING HIS COMPUTER WHEN A CURRENT CONVERTER OVERHEATED AND HE TOU CHED IT SUSTAINED A THERMAL BURN TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2010 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| DX CONTU R HAD: 31YOM C/O PN IN 4 4TH KNUCKLE X 3D FOLLOW' PUNCH' A CONTROLLER ON HIS PSE; ABRASION & MILD SWELL' BELOW 4TH DIGIT @ KNCKL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Computers |
| 17 YO F, C/O RIGHT HAND NUMBNESS 7 FOREARM PAIN AFTER SPENDING 5 HOURS WRITING PAPER ON COMPUTER, DX CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 22YOF ON HER COMPUTER AND DEVELOPED HAND NUMBNESS PARESTHESIAS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2010 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| 14YOF, TRIPPED&FEL @ HOME CUTTING HAND ON *** >>LAC >>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2010 | Age: 21 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: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| DX HAND INJ: 21YOM SUSTAINED SWELL' & PN ON DORSUM L HAND AFTER DROP' COMPUTER ON IT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 22 YO M, C/O RIGHT HAND PAIN 3 DAYS THAT STARTED AFTER PLAYING ***,DX H AND PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2010 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Computers |
| FRACTURE HAND - 57 YO MALE CO PAIN AND SWELLING OF THE RIGHT HAND SUSTA INED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A COMPUTER TOWER AT HOME TODAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2010 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| 25YOM LAC HAND ON *** GAME |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/14/2010 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| L HAND CONT/38YOF WAS PLAYING *** GAME AT HOME AND WAS HIT ON HER L HAN D WITH THE CONTROL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2010 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| 25 YOM CUT HAND ON COMPUTER FAN. DX: L HAND LAC 2.5 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2010 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| PLAYING PAC MAN GAME WITH A JOYSTICK. HAND PAIN, RIGHT. 23 YOF* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2010 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers, Fans |
| 13 YO WM HIT CEILING FAN WITH HAND WHILE PLAYING VIDEO GAME AT HOME LACERATION WITH CONTUSION RT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 27 YOF DX CONTUSION OF HAND - COMPUTER FELL ON MY HAND AS PER PT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2010 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 66 YR OLD MALE AT COMPUTER WHEN BOTH HANDS STARTING TINGLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 22YOM RT HAND / WRIST PAIN AFTER USING PUNCHING MACHINE AT BAR DX: HAND INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2010 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Computers |
| 45YOM-MC FXS-FELL WHILE CARRYING A COMPUTER THAT LANDED ON HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2010 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Computers |
| 57 YR OLD FEMALE TRYING TOTYPE ON COMPUTER,HAND STIFFENED AND TIGHT,:PA RESTHESIA NOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2010 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 45YOF,RIGHT HAND PAIN & SWELLING DOES ALOT OF WORK ON COMPUTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2010 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Computers |
| 29YOF-MC FX-PUNCHED A COMPUTER IN ANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Computers |
| PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. STRAIN LEFT HAND AND THUMB. 27 YOF* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2010 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 21YOM AT A BAR PLAYING AN ARCADE GAME- REQUIRES PLAYER TO PUNCH A PUNCH ING BAG TO MEASURE FORCE HIT THE METAL PART OF MACHINE CONTUSION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| ACUTE RT HAND CONTUSION: 22YOF PUNCHED *** TONIGHT, HURT HER RT HAND HER RT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Computers |
| 27YOM WITH SPASMS IN HANDS AFTER WORKING ON COMPUTER DX: NEUROPATHY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2010 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Computers |
| CARPAL TUNNEL RT HAND-51YOF C/O PAIN, TINGLING AND NUMBNESS TO RT HAND AND WRIST AFTER USING COMPUTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2010 | Age: 42 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: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| DX UPPER EXTREMITY NUMBNESS: 42YOM C/O R HAND NUMBNESS/TINGL' X LAST OC, W TYP'G ON LAPTOP YTDY IN AWKWARD POS & FELT NUMB IN R RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2010 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 84YOM PLAYING A COMPUTER GAME FOR OVER AN HOUR AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN HA ND USING THE MOUSE HAND PAIN POSSIBLE MI |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/26/2010 | Age: 26 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: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| A 26 YOM WAS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES FOR 3 HOURS, TO ER WITH HAND PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2010 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 77YOF DEVELOPED TREMORS WHILE PLAYING SOLITAIRE ON COMPUTER TREMORS OF HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2010 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| 71YOF MECHANICAL FALL & CUT HAND ON A CPU DX: HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2010 | Age: 58 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: Computers |
| 58 YOM HAND LAC, CUT HIS HAND ON A PIECE OF METAL FROM A COMPUTER 4 CM LAC, 7 SUTURES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2010 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 43 YOF SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF A HAND WHILE PLAYING AN ELECTRONIC GAME AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2010 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| 28YOM HAS RT HAND INJ AFTER PLAYING PUNCHING BAG GAME AT BAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2010 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 20 Y/O/M PUNCHED A VIDEO GAME DX// RIGHT HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Computers |
| CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME LEFT HAND-42YOF C/O PN & TINGLING TO LEFT HAND A ND WRIST AFTER TYPING ALL DAY ON COMPUTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2010 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers, Knives |
| HAND LAC-32YOM-TAKING APART *** WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING HAND-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2010 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| DX BIL HAND TINGL'G, UNCLEAR ETIOLGY/HEADACHE: 29YOF C/O HA, & BIL HAND NUMB-NESS ONSET W TYPING @ COMPUTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2010 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Computers |
| 3YOM SUSTAINED CONTUSION TO HAND WHEN HE HIT IT ON A VIDEO GAME CONSOLE * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2010 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Computers |
| RT HAND STR. 28 YOF DROPPED COMPUTER ONTO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2010 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Asian |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Computers |
| 24 Y/O/M PUNCHED A COMPUTER SCREEN AT HOME AND INJURED HAND DX/ RIGHT HAND SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2010 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Computers |
| MC FX-14YOF-GOT HIT WHILE PLAYING A VIDEO GAME W/A BROTHER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2010 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Computers |
| HAND STR. 19 YOM STRAINED HAND WHEN FALLING OVER A VIDEO GAME SYSTEM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2010 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Computers |
| PT HAD HAND PX AFTER PLAYING VIDEO GAME. DX: L HAND TENDONITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2010 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Computers |
| 62 YOM CUT HAND ON COMPUTER PRINTER. DX: R HAND LAC 1 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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