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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 597
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools |
| NS - BACK INJ. CUTTING DOWN TREE, PART OF TREE FELL ON BACK INJURING BACK & NECK, ALSO C/O "BREAKING HALLUS ON CHRISTMAS DAY" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools |
| 61 YOM WITH CHEST PAIN FOR 2 DAYS WAS CHOPPING WOOD ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tools |
| C/O CHEST WALL PAIN S/P CHOPPING WOOD&ACCIDENTALLY HIT ONTO CHEST WALL WITH A PIECE OF WOOD>>MUSCLE STRAIN/CONTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tools |
| CHOPPING WOOD, HAD A PIECE FLY UP IN THE AIR AND HIT PT IN CHEST---CONT USION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tools |
| WAS CUTTING WOOD THIS AM AND STARTED HAVING PAIN IN CHEST AND LEFT ARM ACUTE MUSCLE STRAIN TO UPPER BACK* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools |
| MULT. TRAUMA S/P 15 FT FALL: WORKING ON ROOF, WHILE STEPPING BACK, STEPPED ON A TOOL, FELL BACK OFF ROOF ONTO BACK, DEEP BREATH RIBS HURT |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 08/07/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tools, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| THORACIC STRAIN-AFTER CUTTING DOWN A TREE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tools, Floors or flooring materials |
| ACUTE RT POSTERIOR THORACIC CONTUSION: FELL, LANDING ON SOME TOOLS, ON CARPETED FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tools, Computers |
| YESTERDAY CUTTING SHRUBS&TODAY WHILE SITTING IN FRONT OF COMPUTER SUDDE NLY DEVELOPED NON RADIATING CHEST WALL PAIN >> MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools |
| C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF LEFT SIDED CHEST PAIN WHILE DOING YARD WORK OUTSIDE PAIN PERSISTENT IN NATURE>> CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tools |
| PRESENTS WITH SUDDEON ONST OF MALISE, FATIGUE&CHEST PAIN AFTER 3 HOURS OF EXTERTIONAL , IN THE HEAT, YARD WORK>> CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/30/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tools |
| DX R LOWER CHEST WALL CONTU: STRUCK BY DITCHER ON SAT. DITCHER STRUCK A ROCK AND KICKED BACK. HANDLE FORCED HIS R HAND INTO R LOWER CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Tools, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| RIBS FXS-CUTTING DOWN A TREE-TREE HIT PT'S CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Tools |
| R RIB CONT/44YOM FELL INTO TOOLS AT HOME EARLIER TODAY AND NOW HAS R RIB PAIN THAT INCREASES WITH DEEP BREATHING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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