Accidents - Rotary power lawn mowers - 6-15 years old - Years 1997-2010

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,420
See also: Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1998:	168
Year 1999:	133
Year 2000:	145
Year 2003:	221
Year 2004:	208
Year 2005:	295
Year 2006:	146
Year 2007:	92
Year 2008:	381
Year 2009:	235
Year 2010:	392

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Finger:	990	Toe:	371
Lower Leg:	215	Face:	209
Knee:	151	Eyeball:	136
Upper Trunk:	135	Hand:	115
Wrist:	73	Shoulder:	16
Foot:	6

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 09/03/2010	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
12YOM CAUGHT FINGER IN LAWN MOWER PULL START CORD/ PARTIAL AMP RT 4TH DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 08/17/2010	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
14YOM WAS TRYING TO START A PULL LAWN MOWER, GOT THUMB CAUGHT CAUSING A SPRAIN TO LT THUMB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2010	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers, Footwear
15YOM WAS AT HOME, WAS MOWING THE LAWN WITH A WALK BEHIND WHILE WEARING SHOES, GOT FOOT UNDER MOWER CAUSING A LACERATION TO TO GREAT TOE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/21/2010	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
12YOF WEARING SHORTS AND WAS MOWING GRASS WITH A WALK BEHIND POWER LAWN MOWER IN HIGH GRASS AND DEVELOPED A RASH TO LOWER LEGS CONTACT DERMATI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2010	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
6YOF BURN HAND ON LAWN MOWER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/26/2010	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
13 YO M MOWING YARD AT HOME, PULLED ON MOWER, HURT CHEST. DX CHEST WALL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/10/2010	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
13YOM MOWING LAWN, TILTED MOWER TO TURN IT, CAME DOWN ON FOOT; 2ND TOE FX., AVULSED TISSUE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2010	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers, Footwear
13YOM LACERATION/OPEN FRACTURE TOE CUTTING GRASS DOWN HILL SLIPPED CATC HING TOE UNDER MOWER CUT THROUGH TENNIS SHOE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/17/2010	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
14YOM STR SHLDR STARTING LAWN MOWER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/20/2009	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
MOVING WHEEL ON LAWN MOWER INJURED FINGER LAC FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/09/2009	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT WAS MOWING GRASS WITH A PUSH MOWER WHEN A ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT HER I N THE NOSE BLEEDING DX CONTUSION TO NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2009	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PULL STRING ON LAWN MOWER HIT PT IN FACE. DX FACIAL LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/25/2009	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
12 YO M FRACTURED/PARTIAL AMPUTAION TO 3RD & 4TH FINGERS INJURED TRYING TO UNCLOG MOWER WHILE IT WAS STILL RUNNING*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2008	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT STATES THE LAWN MOWER GOT CLOGGED UP AND SHE REACHED DOWN TO REMOVE THE GRASS AND CUT HER FINGERS ON THE BLADE DX AVULISION RT MIDDLE AND R
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/28/2008	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers, Animal induced injury
CHASING NEW PUPPY,RAN IN FRONT OF GRANDMOTHER MOWING GRASS W/PUSH MOWER COULDN'T STOP MOWER RAN OVER LEGS;DEGLOVING KNEE/FOOT, OPEN FOOT FX/LAC
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/26/2008	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT FELL WHILE PUSHING GRANDPARENTS LAWN MOWER UP A HILL. RAN BACK OVER HIS R HAND. AVULSED SKIN ON DORSAL SURF. OF R HAND. DX R HAND AVULSION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/26/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
12 YO M APMUTATION TO FINGER AFTER REACHING INOT LAWN MOWER WHILE BLADE WAS IN MOTION*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/09/2008	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT MOWING-SOMETHING HIT LEG-LACERATION LEFT LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/15/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT HAS INJURY TO THUMB TRYING TO HOOK UP PLOW TO LAWN MOWER FX LT THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT STATES CHEST PAIN WHILE MOWING THE LAWN AT HOME CHEST WALL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/22/2007	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers, Footwear
PT HAD A OPEN TOE SHOE ON AND HIT TOE ONTO EXHAUST PIPE OF LAWNMOWER BURNED TOE NOW HAS A BLISTER WHICH POPPED. DX TOE BURN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/29/2007	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PATIENT MOWING HER LAWN PUSHING LAWN MOWER UP HILL FELL DOWN WITH MOWER RUNNING OVER FOOT, AMPUTATED 3-5TH TOES; AMPUTATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/06/2007	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
15 Y/O M SUS A RIGHT TOE INJURY X TODAY WHILE AT HOME. PT WAS CUTTING G RASS ON A HILL, SLIPPED AND FOOT INTO MOWER. DX OPEN FX OF TOE, TOE LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2007	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
CORNEAL ABRASION AFTER MOWING LAWN AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/19/2007	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers, Footwear
PATIENT MOWING GRASS WITH PUSH MOWER WHEN FOOT HIT THE BLADE, WAS WEARI NG RUBBER SHOES/BOOTS; 1ST/2ND TOE AMPUTATIONS, 3RD/4TH TOE LACS.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/03/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
CONTUSION THUMB WHEN CAUGHT BETWEEN BAR AND HANDLE OF LAWN MOWER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
POWER LAWN MOWER BLADE CAME OFF STRUCK PATIENT IN WRIST SPRAIN AND CONTUSION LT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/06/2005	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT WAS AT HOME WALKING BEHIND THE LAWN MOWER MOWING THE YARD WHEN IT KI CKED UP A STONE CAUSING A LACERATION TO HIS LWR LT LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/04/2005	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
7 YOM LACERATES FINGER ON LAWN MOWER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2005	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT WAS MOWING THE YARD AT HOME WITH A PUSH MOWER STRAINED KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2005	Age: 13 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: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT BURNT HAND ON THE HOT MUFFLER OF LAWN MOWER SUSTAINED " 2ND DEGREE BURN, HAND"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/03/2005	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
PT MOWING GRASS AT HOME PIECE OF TIN HIT LEG LACERATION LT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2004	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
FATHER WAS CUTTING GRASS AND SLUNG SOMETHING OUT FROM UNDER MOWER AND L ACERATED EYEBROW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/25/2004	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
13 YOM STUCK FINGER UNDER LAWN MOWER DECK WHILE BLADE WAS STILL SPINNIN G ALTHOUGH HE HAD TURNED OFF THE LAWN MOWER. LACERATION, RT. INDEX FING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/2004	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
L FOOT GOT UNDER BACK OF PUSH MOWER WHILE GOING UP HILL. DX OPEN FX L GREAT TOE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2004	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers, Footwear
MOWING GRASS WITH PUSH MOWER AT AUNT'S HOUSE, SLIPPED ON WET GRASS, FOO T W/SHOE ON WENT UNDER MOWER; GREAT TOE AMPUTATION, TOE LAC W/FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/05/2003	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
CUT TOE ON BLADE OF POWER PUSH LAWNMOWER/ OPEN FX RT GREAT TOE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2003	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
MOWING GRASS-CUT FINGER ON LAWNMOWER BLADE DX LACERATION RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/04/2003	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
CHILD TOUCHED THE TOP OF A LAWN MOWER ENGINE, ON THE SCREEN THAT COVERE S THE CRANKSHAFT,FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 05/22/2003	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
LACERATION FINGER - 7 YOM LACERATED HIS RIGHT THUMB WHEN HE PUT GRASS I NTO A ROTARY LAWN MOWER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/14/2000	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2000	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 08/30/1999	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/30/1999	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/21/1998	Age: 8 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: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/1998	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/09/1998	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/1998	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Rotary power lawn mowers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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