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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 316
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/24/2003 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT SELF IN HEAD WITH PICK DX: LACERATION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2003 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HANGING UP SCYTHE SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2003 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS AT HOME WHEN SHE WAS HIT WITH A SHOVEL CAUSING A LACERATION TO H ER SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2003 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE WHILE RAKING LAWN. DX. SYNCOPE, MINOR HEAD TRAUMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/13/2003 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Fertilizers |
| HEAD INJ. PT WAS USING A SHOVEL TO SPREAD FERTILIZER IN YARD AND FELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2003 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| ACCIDENTALLY HIT WITH SHOVEL DX. CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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