Accidents - Tools - Year 2009 - Head

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,745
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	12
16-25 years old:	487
26-50 years old:	1,588
50+ years old:	658

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/21/2009	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools, Fences or fence posts
50 YOM PT WAS USING A POST POUNDER TO POUND IN T POLES, POUNDER RICOHET ED OFF & HIT HIS HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2009	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
27YOM HAD POST HOLE DIGGER SLIP AND HIT HEAD LACERATION HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2009	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
CHI W/LOC:CERV. SPINE STRAIN R/O FX;CUTTING WOOD TODAY,SLIPPED ON A BRANCH HITTING BACK OF HEAD ON LOG, +LOC,BAD HEADACHE, NECK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2009	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
34 YO M HIT IN HEAD WITH TREE BRANCH TRIMMING IT. DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2009	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Tools
34 YOM PT C/O INJURY TO SCALP STATUS POST DIRECT BLOW WITH POLE DRIVER. CONCUSSION WITH LOC, LUMBAR STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/29/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
PT WAS CHOPPING WOOD AND HAD PIECE HIT RT EYE DX:TRUAMATIC HYMPHEMA RT EYE. CHI, LAC RT LOWER EYE LID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2009	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools, Fences or fence posts
32 YOM PT PUNDING IN FENCEPOST WITH POST DRIVER, POST DRIVER BOUCED BAC K AND HIT PT IN HEAD. SCALP LAC, CONTUSION HEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2009	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
32 YOM PT WAS HITIN HEAD WITH POST HOLE DIGGER. SCALP LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2009	Age: 17 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
PT WAS AT SCHOOL WHEN A CONSTRUCTION TYPE TOOL FELL FROM ONE STORY DOWN ONTO PT'S HEAD. DX - SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/22/2009	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Tools
PT CHOPPED A TREE DOWN & LARGE PART OF TREE HIT PT'S (L) SHOULDER & PT FELL TO GROUND, HAS PAIN DX;# CONCUSSION, HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/09/2009	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Tools
37 YOM, HIT HEAD IWTH POST HOLE DIGGER, CONCUSSIOIN HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/23/2009	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
CUTTING TREE, BRANCH CAME BACK AND STRUCK HEAD/ CONTUSIN HEAD, NECK LT SHOULDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/18/2009	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
CHOPPING WOOD & A PC OF WOOD HIT HER IN THE FACE/HEAD DX CLOSED HEAD INJURY/ABRASION/LAC R EYEBROW *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2009	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
HIT SELF IN HEAD WITH PIPE DRIVER/ SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/16/2009	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
32 YOM CLOSED HEAD INJURY, CUTTING A TREE WHEN A BRANCH FELL AND HIT HI M IN THE HEAD, 6 CM LAC 14 STAPLES + CONFUSION NO LOC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/04/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Tools
HIT IN HEAD BY A POST HOLE DIGGER YESTERDAY-WAS KNOCKED DOWN NO LOC @ N EIGHBOR'S DX MILD CEREBRAL CONCUSSION,ABRASION SCALP *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/25/2009	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
SWUNG POST HOLE DIGGERR TOO HIGH & A PC STRUCK R SIDE OF HEAD DX SCALP LAC *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2009	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
PT WAS CUTTING DOWN A TREE AT HOME WHEN A LARGE BRANCH FELL & KNOCKED PT DOWN TO GROUND DX: ABRASION TO HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/22/2009	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
PT GOT HIT IN HEAD WITH WOOD WHILE CUTTING IT FOR FIREDX: HEAD LAC . CH I
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/19/2009	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools, Doors
69YO M LACERATION TO SCALP PUTTING TOOLS UNDER SHED HIT HEAD ON THE DOO R*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/19/2009	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
HIT HEAD ON A POLE DIGGER. DX. SCALP LACERATION, HEAD INJURY.*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2009	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
@ HOME HELPING DAD CUT DOWN A TREE & LIMB FELL ON HIS HEAD & R SHOULDER DX CONTUSION LAC SCALP, CONTUSION/ABRASION NECK & SHOULDER *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2009	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Concussion
Product: Tools
STRUCK ON THE FOREHEAD AREA WITH A POST HOLE DIGGER DX CONCUSSION W/O LOC,MILD LAC FOREHEAD *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
HIT IN HEAD WHEN END OF POST HOLE DIGGER FLIPPED BACK SCALP LACERATION *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
CLOSED HEAD INJURY - 57 YO MALE PRESENTS AFTER HE WAS HIT IN HEAD BY FA LLING TREE LIMB - HELP NEIGHBOR CUT TREE & LIMB FELL FROM 20 FEET
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/02/2009	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
PT WAS USING A FENCE HOLE DRIVER AND IT HIT HIM ON HEAD. DX. BLUNT HEA D TRAUMA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2009	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
PT WAS CUTTING DOWN A TREE AND A LARGE BRANCH FELL ON PATIENT AT A FRIENDS HOUSE DX: DEEP ABRASION T SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/27/2009	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
HIT IN HEAD WITH METAL POST DRIVER WHILE PUTTING POST IN GROUND. DX-LAC SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2009	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools, Stairs or steps
CHI: C.SPINE CONT.; 28YOM PUTTING TOOLS AWAY WHILE WORKING UNDER STEPS STOOD UP FAST, STRIKING HIS HEAD UNDER STEP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2009	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
DX LAC SCALP: HIT IN HEAD BY POST PINDER. C/O HEADACHE & LAC TO TOP OF HEAD W BLDG CTRL'D
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2009	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
PT REPORTS FENCE POST DRIVER HIT PT ON TOP OF HEAD. DX. SCALP LACERATI ON.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/2009	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
USING POTHOLE DIGGER - HIT SELF IN HEAD CAUSING LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/13/2009	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
CHI-TREE FELL ON PT'S HEAD WHILE CUTTING DOWN A TREE-+LOC
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/07/2009	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
62 YOM WAS CUTTING TREE AND BRANCH HIT L EYE BROW CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/25/2009	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
PT WAS WORKING IN YARD AND WAS IT IN HEAD W/POST HOLE DIGGER. DX: SCALP LAC 3 CM, CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2009	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Tools
CUTTING TREE, BRANCH BROKE, FELL DX: SKULL FX WITH PNEUMOCEPHALUS, SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/03/2009	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
CUTTING WOOD AT HOME , LOG FLEW AND HIT PT IN HEAD DX: CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/27/2009	Age: 70 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
PT WAS CUTTING ROSES FELL AND HIT HEAD HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2009	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
CHI/34YOM AT HOME WAS CUTTING DOWN TREE LIMBS TODAY AND WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH LIMB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/22/2009	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
PT WAS AT HOME USING A POST HOLE DIGGER, HE HIT IT WRONG CAUSING A LACERATION TO SCALP.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/19/2009	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
SCALP LAC/37YOM HIT IN HEAD WITH POST HOLE DIGGER SUSTAINING LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/16/2009	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
PATIENT HIT ON HEAD BY TREE BRANCH DAD WAS CUTTING OFF TREE; HEAD INJUR Y, SCALP LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2009	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
WAS CUTTING A TREE WHEN A LARG LIMB FELL FROM 20FTH HITTING HIM ONTO HE AD, NO LOC, C/O BING DIZZY>>CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/02/2009	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
HIT IN HEAD WHEN WRENCH FELL;DX CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/28/2009	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
WAS CUTTING SOME TREE'S BRANCHES, FELL OFF, ?30FTH, STRUCK HEAD, +LOC, BIBA AS FTR>>SAH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/21/2009	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
CUTTING DOWN A LARGE TREE, TREE KICKED BACK STRUCK CHEST &WAS KNOCKED O UT WHEN HE AWOKE HEAD WAS BLEEDING DX HEAD & RIBS CONTUSION ****
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/18/2009	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
PT WAS CUTTING A TREE DOWN AT HOME WHEN A LIMB FELL OUT OF TREE AND HIT PATIENT ON TOP OF HEAD. DX. HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2009	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
PT WAS CHOPPING WOOD WHEN A PIECE OF THE BRANCH CAME BACK AND STRUCK HI M IN FOREHEAD. NO LOC. DX CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/27/2009	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
CUTTING A TREE THAT STRUCK PT'S HEAD, NO LOC, +BLEEDING, MODIFIED TRAUM A>>SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2009	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Tools
CUTTING TREES, ONE FELL AND HIT HIM IN HEAD DX: HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2009	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Tools
42 Y/O M USING T-POST DRIVER&LIFTED IT OFF T-POST&IT FELL ON PTS HEAD@H OME DX: FRONTAL SCALP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/11/2009	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Tools
PT SUSTAINED HEAD INJURY WHEN A MECHANICAL TOOL HIT HIS HEAD*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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