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Accidents - Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers - Year 2005

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,606
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:
Finger:782Eyeball:689
Hand:394Lower Leg:218
Face:204Lower Arm:83
Lower Trunk:68Upper Trunk:66
Wrist:66Knee:15
Mouth:15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records


Date: 12/24/2005Age: 42 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
WORKING ON SON'S CAR WITH A POWER GRINDER AND IT SLIPPED AND TOOK SKIN OFF FINGER AVULSION FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/18/2005Age: 28 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
RT EYE FB-WHILE GRINDING METAL-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/14/2005Age: 31 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Ladders
PT. WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER CARRYING A GRINDER, TRIPPED AND FELL AND THE GRINDER CUT HIS HAND. DIAGNOSIS; LAC. HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/03/2005Age: 32 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FaceDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT C/O FACE LAC.PT WAS WORKING WITH METAL GRINDER AND METAL FLEW UP INT O FACE. DX COM FACIAL LAC NASAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/01/2005Age: 1 monthsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
WHILE VICTIM WAS GRINDING WHEEL LOVES AT HOME A PC OF METATL FLEW META N EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/30/2005Age: 15 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT. WAS WORKING ON HIS RACE CAR USING A GRINDER, GOT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE DIAGNOSIS; EMBEDDED FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/24/2005Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT SUSTAINED LACERATION TO FINGER FROM ELECTRIC GRINDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/24/2005Age: 16 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT CUT BY SAW; LAC FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/20/2005Age: 43 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Avulsion
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT. INJURED L. 2ND KNUCKLE WHILE USING GRINDER. DX. AVULSION L. 2ND FIN GER. /KNUCKLE.#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/19/2005Age: 15 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Fracture
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
HIT HAND ONTO A POLE LAST PM " FX"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/17/2005Age: 48 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower ArmDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
INJURED SELF WITH PORTABLE GRINDER DX. FOREARM LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/16/2005Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: MouthDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
POWER GRINDER KICKED UP AND HIT PT'S LIP. DX: LOWER LIP LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/13/2005Age: 52 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FaceDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WORKING UNDER HIS CAR WITH A POWER GRINDER WHEN THE GRINDER KICKED B ACK STRIKING NOSE LACERATION FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/11/2005Age: 24 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT. WAS USING ELECTRIC GRINDER AT HOME, THINKS HE MAY HAVE SOMETHING IN HIS EYE. DIAGNOSIS; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/11/2005Age: 21 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower LegDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WORKING ON CAR WITH A GRINDER, IT JAMMED AND HIT PT RT LOWER LEG, LA C LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/08/2005Age: 24 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A POWER GRINDER AT HOME DOING SOME RECONSTRUCTION WORK IN THE BATHROOM SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/02/2005Age: 76 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS USING A POWER GRINDER SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/12/2005Age: 34 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PATIENT WAS USING A GRINDER AND CAUGHT HIS L HAND WITH IT. DX; L HAND MULTIPLE LACERATIONS, WITH REPAIR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/25/2005Age: 67 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
WAS USING A GRINDER TO GRIND METAL; PIECE OF METAL CUT HIS FINGER. LACE RATION, LEFT RING FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/19/2005Age: 29 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT GRINDING MUFFLER ON CAR AND A FB GOT INTO EYE, HAS PAIN. DX: FB IN E YE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/24/2005Age: 21 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, All-terrain vehicles
PT WAS USING A POWER GRINDER ON THE FOOTPEDAL OF A THREE WHEELED ATV WH EN SOMETHING FLEW INTO RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/17/2005Age: 75 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower LegDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A GRINDER AT HOME, IT KICKED BACK, LAC LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/16/2005Age: 45 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower TrunkDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
4 CM LACERATION 0F ABDOMEN REPAIRED: GRINDING AND GRINDING WHEEL CAME OFF AND HIT HIM IN ABDOMEN THIS AM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/15/2005Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FaceDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
2 CM FOREHEAD LACERATION: LAST NIGHT WAS USING CAR BUFFER, BUFFING OUT SEMI-TRUCK, BUFFER CAME BACK AND STRUCK FOREHEAD, NOT COMP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/14/2005Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower ArmDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
LACERATION ARM 3 CM; SMALL RETAINED FOREIGN BODY: CUTTING DISC ON *** G RINDER, DISC BROKE, CUT R FOREARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/14/2005Age: 36 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A GRINDER ON METAL AT HOME AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN RIGHT E YE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/08/2005Age: 36 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Screwdrivers
CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY O.S.: USING HAND HELD ELECTRIC GRINDER GRINDING SCREWDRIVER, SOMETHING FLEW INTO L EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/06/2005Age: 30 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: KneeDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
DROPPED A GRINDER DX. KNEE LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/30/2005Age: 47 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A POWER GRINDER AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/11/2005Age: 30 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WORKING ON HIS CAR AND CAUGHT L FINGER IN GRINDER DX: LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/07/2005Age: 24 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A POWER GRINDER, RAN IT OVER LT HAND, ABRASIONS LT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/31/2005Age: 32 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING POWER GRINDER AT HOME AND CUT LEFT INDEX FINGER C/O PAINLEFT I NDEX FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/12/2005Age: 46 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: WristDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING GRINDER WHEN IT KICKED BACK AND CUT WRIST AT HOME 5CM LAC LT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/07/2005Age: 15 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower LegDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Surfing
PT WORKING ON A SURF BOARD WITH A PORTABLE POWER GRINDER AND STRUCK SEL F IN THE RIGHT LOWER LEG LACERATION LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/03/2005Age: 19 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING METAL ON A HOUSEBOAT, SUBSTAINED A PIECE IN EYE. DX. FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/27/2005Age: 16 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Tables
PT WAS IN WOOD SHOP AND WOOD CAME OFF GRINDER HIT TABLE THEN PT'S HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/26/2005Age: 19 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT AT HOME HURT R THUMB ON GRINDER DX LAC THUMB 1CM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/18/2005Age: 73 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT. WAS USING A GRINDER AT HIS HOME, IT KICKED BACK AND HIT HIM IN THE CHEST. LACERATION CHEST WITH ARTERIAL BLEED, 6 CM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/17/2005Age: 43 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT WAS GRINDING WITH POWER BLADE AND FOREIGN BODY FLEW INTO EYE AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/11/2005Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING POWER GRINDER AT HOME AND GOT SOME METAL IN RT EYE C/O PAIN BU RNING REDNESS AND FB SENSATION CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/01/2005Age: 48 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PATIENT WAS IN HIS SHOP, GRINDING ON SOME METAL, THE GRINDER SLIPPED AN D CUT HIS FINGER. DX; 2.5 CM LACERATION TO L FOURTH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/17/2005Age: 41 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A POWER GRINDER SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/15/2005Age: 63 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
PT USING A POWER GRINDER AT HOME SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT INDEX F INGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/01/2005Age: 57 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
57 YO WM USING GRINDER AT HOME HIT HAND TO GRINDING WHEEL LT INDEX FINGER EXTENSION TENDON AVULSION LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/27/2005Age: 37 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower LegDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
CUT LOWER LEG WITH PORTABLE POWER GRINDER WHILE CUTTING BOLTS AT HOME. DX: LACERATION LOWER LEG, HISTORY OF SELF MUTILATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/16/2005Age: 57 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
LACERATION HAND WITH LACERATION TO RING FINGER WITH POSSIBLE TENDONLACE RATION, USING *** GRINDER AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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