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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,266
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
Date: 11/29/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WORKING ON CAR WRENCH SLIPPED HIT HAND DX BROKEN HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/10/2002 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT WORKING ON THE WHEELWELL OF HIS CAR AT HOME WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED SUSTAINED A CONTUSION TO RIGHT HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/10/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Vises or workshop clamps |
CONTUS R HAND; WRENCEH SLIPPED & HAND HIT WALL PER MD, SLIPPED OFF VISE PER RN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/09/2002 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
CONTUSION HAND - 36 YOM USING A WRENCH AND IT SLIPPED, C/O PAIN RIGHT H AND AND ALSO WRIST |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/26/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT MECHANICWORK ON MOTORCYCLE AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND CUT RT HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/02/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT WAS WORKING ON HIS ENGINE AND SCRAPED HAND WHILE WORKING WITH A WRENCH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/29/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
CHANGING FLAT TIRE ON CAR HAND SLIPPED OFF WRENCH HIT PAVEMENT DX CONTUSION TO HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/22/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
LAC R HAND; WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE HE WAS WORKING ON HIS CAR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/18/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT STATES THE HANDLE FROM A WRENCH SPUN & STRUCK HIM IN HAND WHILE HE WAS WORKING ON HIS TRUCK |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/15/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT HIT WITH A WRENCH THAT BROKE; RT METACARPAL FX |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/06/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
CUT HAND WITH A PLIER DX: HAND LAC |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/01/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Lawn mowers |
PT WAS WORKING ON A LAWN MOWER WHEN WRENCH SLIPPED CUTTING HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/26/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
LT HAND PUNCTURE WOUND-INJURED ON ALLEN WRENCH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/26/2002 | Age: 32 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
RT HAND LAC-AT HOME-WORKING ON HIS CAR-DROPPED WRENCH & CUT HAND ON CAR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/23/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PATIENT WAS WORKING ON HIS TRUCK, WRENCH SLIPPED CUTTING HIS HAND. DX-2.5CM LACERATION LEFT HAND, FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/16/2002 | Age: 67 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT LACERATED HAND ON METAL PLIERS |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/01/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
LEFT HAND CONTUSION.PT WAS USING A RATCHET AND IT SLIPPED AND FELL ON H AND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/21/2002 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
HAD PLIERS IN HIS HAND, WASP WAS STINGING OTHER HAND, HIT WASP AND SCRA TCHED SELF WITH PLIERS. NOW WITH SWOLLEN HAND. CELLULITIS L HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/18/2002 | Age: 68 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Lawn mowers |
DX LACERATION LEFT HAND: SLIPPED WHILE WORKING ON LAWN MOWER AT HOME, DROPPED RATCHET ONTO HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WORKING ON MOTORCYCLE YESTERDAY, WRENCH SLIPPED OFF AND HE HIT THE TOP OF HIS RIGHT HAND ON FOOT PEG. DX FRACTURE RIGHT HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 45 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
45-YOM SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF HIS HAND AS A RESULT OF STRIKING HIS H AND WITH A WRENCH AT HOME. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 39 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
FLAP LAC R HAND;ABRAS R HAND/39YOM USING WRENCH AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND STRUCK HAND. HAS MULT LAC'S. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/12/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT SUST CONTUSION TO HAND WHILE USING WRENCH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/11/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
RT HAND CONTUSION.PT HAD A WRENCH SLIP AND INJURE HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/06/2002 | Age: 22 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WORKING ON CAR, WRENCH SLIPPED, HAND STRUCK CAR DX: LACERATION TO HAN D |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/24/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WORKING ON CAR WITH WRENCH WHEN IT SLIPPED HITTING RIGHT HAND ON CARALT ERNATOR DX: FRACTURED 5TH METACARPAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/22/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WORKING ON TRACTOR AT HOME, WRENCH SLIPPEDCUTTING HAND ON TRACTOR. DX; LACERATION HAND. FARM TRACTOR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/21/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WRENCH SLIPPED DX. HAND CONT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/14/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PATIENT CUT HIS LEFT HAND ON A WRENCE WHILE AT AN AUCTION.DX-2 CM LACER ATION PALM. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/28/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
25 Y.O. W MALE W/FX HAND. PT WAS WORKING ON HIS CAR & WRENCH SLIPPED @H OME. E9179 |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/27/2002 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WORKING ON CAR AND WRENCH AND GEAR KNOW CRUSHED HAND. DX. LAC L HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/27/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WAS WORKING ON A TRUCK AT HOME AND WRENCH KICKED BACK AND HIT HIS RTHAN D. 2CM HAND LACERATION. DO NOT CONTACT PT. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/25/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PATIENT CUT HIS HAND ON THE CAR WHEN THE WRENCH SLIPPED WHILE WORKINGON HIS CAR AT HOME. DX-LACERATION LEFT HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/21/2002 | Age: 72 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
HAND LAC FROM WRENCH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/09/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT WORKING ON CAR, WRENCH SLIPPED & INJURED RT HAND. CLOSED FX DISTAL R T 5TH METACARPAL@ |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/22/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WORKING ON CAR-WRENCH SLIPPED AND HIT HAND CONTUSION HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/15/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
RT HAND FRACTURE.PT WAS USING A WRENCH ON CAR AND WRENCH SLIPPED AND HA ND WENT CRASHING INTO CAR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/05/2002 | 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
LT HAND LAC-AT SISTER'S HOUSE-WORKING ON CAR-PLIERS SLIPPED AND CUT HAN D |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/03/2002 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT USING A PAIR OF PLIERS AT HOME FORCEFULLY WHEN HE CAUGHT THE SKIN IN HIS LEFT HAND PUNCTURE WOUND HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/30/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WHILE USING A WRENCH TO FIX A CAR ENGINE THE WRENCH SLIPPED AND HE STRUCK HIS HAND ON THE ENGINE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/28/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
CONTUSION HAND - VICTIM INJURED AT HOME WHILE REPAIRING HIS CAR - HIT R IGHT HAND WITH A WRENCH |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/27/2002 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
HIT BACK OF RIGHT HAND WITH WRENCH HE WAS WORKING WITH, CUT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/26/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
WRENCH SLIPPED DX. HAND CONT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/16/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PT'S HAND SLIPPED W/WRENCH. DX: L HAND LAC 6 CM. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/05/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
HIT SELF ON RIGHT HAND WITH A WRENCH HE WAS USING, CONTUSION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/01/2002 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Garage doors |
PT WAS HIT W/WRENCH WHILE INSTALLING GARAGE DOOR. DX: CONT R HAND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/08/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Crushing |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PIPE CUTTING MACHINE CRUSHED RT. HAND DX: CRUSH INJURY W/ LACERATION RT. HAND |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
LAC LT HAND--18 YOM FELL WHILE WALKING INTO BAR. A TOOL(WRENCH) HE WAS USING GOUGED INTO HIS SKIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/15/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
PAIN TO R HAND.TWISTING WRENCH,HIT HAND.DX BOXER'S FX |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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