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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,745
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| 42 YOM WAS WORKING ON SOME WOODWORK WITH A DRILL, WAS CHANGING A DRILL BIT, A WIRE LACERATED HIS FINGER. DX-OPEN FRACT OF LT INDEX FINGR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/05/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| USING A DRILL THAT SLIPPED & WENT THRU FINGER >>PW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2007 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT.INJ.L.THUMB AT HOME WHEN USING A POWER DRILL & HIT THUMB. DX; 1/2 CM .FLAP LAC.L.THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, House repair or construction materials |
| CUT FINGER USING DRILL TO CUT SHEET METAL LAC LT THUMB * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2007 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| DRILLING A SCREW, IT SLIPPED AND HIT FINGER HEMATOMA FINGER # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| DRILLING AND DRILL BIT WENT IN TO FINGER A LITTLE. DX LACERATION L FING ER# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| USING DRILL AND IT WENT THROUGH FINGER PUNCTURE WOUND TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2007 | Age: 56 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: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| 56 YO M PUNCTURE WOUND L INDEX FINGER PT WAS DRILLING METAL AND DRILL BIT BROKE AND PUNCTURED FINGER* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2007 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| CUT FINGER WITH DRILL AT FRIENDS HOUSE LAC FINGER * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| 53 YO MALE WAS USING HILTI GUN AND WHEN DRILLING IT SPUN OUT AND TWISTED FINGER - DISLOCATED FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| DX CLOSED RIGHT 4TH FINGER FRACTURE: INJURED WHILE USING HAND DRILL AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| 30 YOM STATES HE HAD A POWER DRILL AND PUT IT THROUGH HIS RIGHT RING FI NGER, CAN SEE WHERE DRILL CAME THROUGH ON THE OTHER SIDE, DX: PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| WHILE DRILLING DRILL BIT WENT THROUGH FINGER LACERATION LEFT 3RD FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| 44 Y/O M INJURED R MIDDLE FINGER WHEN DRILL BIT WENT THROUGH IT AT HOME . DX; PUNCTURE WOUND R MID FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2007 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT LOOSENING DRILL BIT, DRILL KICKED BACK CUTTING L RING FINGER - LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL A FEW DAYS AGO DRILLED SECOND INDEX FINGER SUSTA INED A PW WHICH GOT INFECTED TO THE ED FOR CELLULITIS TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/09/2007 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| DRILL BIT STUCK IN FINGER FB LT MID FINGER CH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT USING A POWER DRILL AND SUSTAINED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO RIGHT INDEX F INGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2007 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PATIENT LACERATED LEFT INDEX FINGER ON A DRILL BIT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2007 | Age: 24 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: Power drills or accessories |
| PT AT HOME USING A POWER DRILL BIT INJ 3RD L FINGER / DX 5CM LAC L 3RD FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| HIT ON DRILL THAT SLIPPED CONT L 4TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2007 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| USING DRILL & DRILL BIT BROKE & WENT THRU FINGER DX PUNCTURE WOUND FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT DRILLED THROUGH FINGER WHILE DRILLING METAL AT HOME TODAY DX/ PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| 32YOM WAS USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME,INADVERTENTLY DRILLED HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER;PUNCTURE WOUND OF LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2007 | Age: 16 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: Fracture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| 16 Y/O M SUS A LEFT THUMB INJURY WITH A POWER DRILL X TODAY. DX. FRACTU RE OF BASE OF THUMB, FINGER LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PATIENT PUNCTURED 3RD FINGER WITH SCREW WHILE DRILLING A PLAY STAGE AT SCHOOL, WENT THRU FINGER AND OUTSIDE; OPEN PUNCTURE WOUND TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT WAS USING A POWER DRILL AND BIT SLIPPED AND HIT FINGER AT HOME DX:LACERATION TO LEFT MIDDLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2007 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories, Motor vehicles or parts |
| LAC R INDEX FINGER; WAS @ HOME IN GARAGE WORKING ON CAR. DRILLING THROU GH PLASTIC & DRILL CAUGHT FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| DRILLING INTO THUMB, NOT WORK RELATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PUNCTURE L 2ND FINGER, PT GOT HURT W/A POWER DRILL, NO LOCATION, LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/12/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PATIENT USING POWER DRILL, RAN DRILL BIT THROUGH THUMB BY ACCIDENT; PUN CTURE WOUND TO THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| 45 YOM HAD LAC TO R INDEX FINGER FROM DRILL BIT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| USING POWER DRILL DXL SUPERFICIAL ABRASIONS & LAC RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT WAS USING A POWER DRILL AT HOME, BIT FLEW OFF AND GOT STUCK IN LT INDEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2007 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PT WAS CUT BY SPINNING METAL PLATE WHILE DRILLING. DX: R INDEX LAC 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2007 | Age: 51 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: Power drills or accessories |
| PT DRILLED FINGER ALL THE WAY THROUGH WHILE USING POWER DRILL, LACERATION TO LEFT MIDDLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2007 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Power drills or accessories |
| PUNCTURE R 4TH FINGER, PT GOT INJURY W/A DRILL AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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