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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,184
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT TOUCHED A HOT PRTESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND SUSTAINED A THERMAL BURN TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT CUT HAND WHEN WASHING HAND WITH A PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT USING A PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND STREAM OF WATER FROM WASHER CUT HAND. DX. R HAND LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT BURNED HAND ON EXHAUSE OF PRESSURE WASHER. DX: BURNS L HAND/FINGERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PUNCTURE WOUND TO HAND WAND FROM PRESSURE WASHER HIT HANDE AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT INJURED HAND WITH A PRESSURE WASHER. DX: RIGHT HAND PRESSURE WASHER INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WAS USING A PRESSURE WASHER FILLED WITH PLAIN WATER TO WASH HOUSE & BLEW A HOLE IN HAND DX: LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| CUT HAND WITH PRESSURE WASHER. DX LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| USING PRESSURE WASHER, CUT HAND. DX HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WAS PRESSURE WASHING AND HAS PX. DX: HAND PX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| HAND LAC-HIT W/ PRESSURIZED WATER STREAM FROM PRESSURE WASHER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | 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: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 68 YO M 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO HAND BURNT ON MUFFLER OF POWER WASHER AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT HAND AFTER PUTTING HAND IN FRONT OF WATER ST REAM FROM PRESSURE WASHER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT CUT OF THE HAND ON HIGH PRESSURE HOSE AT CAR WASH LACERATION LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 66 YOM LACERATED LEFT HAND WHILE USING A PRESSURE WASHER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT STATES HIT R HAND W/A HIGH PRESSURE WASHER. DX. CONT R HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| CUT HAND WITH PRESSURE WASHER DX: HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 78 YOM WAS USING PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND SUSTAINED SMALL PUNCTURE W OUNDS TO LEFT HAND AND SOME ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2008 | Age: 59 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: Sprayers |
| PT USING PRESSURE WASHER-HIT HAND-LEFT HAND LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 20 YOM USING A POWER WASHER WHEN THE WAND SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND; DX: LACERATION TO LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SELF IN HAND USING HIGH PRESSURE WASHER WITH PAINT. DX-LEFT HAND INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY SPRAYED HAND WITH INDUSTRIAL PRESSURE WASHER, DX HAND I NJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT TOUCHED HOT PRESSURE WASHER ENGINE. DX: R HAND SUPERFICIAL BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| CUT HAND ON PRESSURE WASHER. DX EXTENSIVE HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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