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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 737
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2004 | 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| GRINDING BOLT ON GRINDING WHEEL @ HOME & LAC LT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| CAUGHT FINGER IN ELECTRIC GRINDER AT HOME. DX; OPEN TUFT FRACTURE FING ER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| FINGER AVULSION, FINGERS HIT ELECTRIC GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2004 | 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: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| DX RIGHT THUMB LACERATION: INJURED THUMB ON BLADE GRINDER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2004 | Age: 15 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 15 YOM USING GRINDER FX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2004 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT.INJ.L.2ND.FINGER AT HOME WHEN USING A POWER GRINDER. DX; LAC.L.INDEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2004 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT CUT LEFT THUMB ON A POWER GRINDER AT HOME LACERATION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2004 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| USING ELECTRIC GRINDER WHEN IT CAME UNPLUGGED; HE WENT TO PLUG IT BACK IN WHEN "IT GOT AWAY FROM ME" LACERATING FINGER, PLACE NOT STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2004 | Age: 32 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| CUT MIDDLE FINGER ON ANGLE GRINDER DX: LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2004 | Age: 39 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HE LACERATED HIT RT INDEX FINGER ON AN AIR GRINDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HE PUT HIS HAND INTO A POWER GRINDER CAUSING AN AVU LSION INJURY TO HIS LT THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2004 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| DEEP ABRASION HAND ON BENCH GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2004 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 38 YO BM - SPRAINED AT THUMB - RUNNING A BUFFER & INJURED THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| CUT THUMB WITH GRINDER AT HOME. DX; LACERATION THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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