Accidents - Other unpowered garden tools - 50+ years old - Year 2008 - Upper Trunk

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,318
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Date: 12/17/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
61 Y/O F EXPERIENCED CHEST PAIN WHILE USING SHOVEL TO BREAK UP ICE AT HOME. DX; CHEST WALL STRAIN.
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 12/11/2008	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
SHOULDER INJURY AFTER RAKING LEAVES SPRAIN THORAX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2008	Age: 99 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CHEST PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/24/2008	Age: 59 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
WAS OUT RAKING LEAVES AND STARTED HAVING CHEST PAIN. DX CHEST PAIN*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT RAKING HIS YARD AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/15/2008	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Tools
PT C/O PALPITATIONS AND NUMBNESS S/P DOING YARD WORK ALL DAY. USED RAKE A LOT AND ALSO USED POST HOLE DIGGER. D:PALPITATIONS, PARESTHESIAS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/06/2008	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
RAKING LEAVES NEW ONSET A-FIB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2008	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
C/O OF BACK AND CHEST AFTER USINF SHOVEL TO MOVE DIRT DX UPPER BACK CHE ST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT SLIPPED WHILE RAKING LEAVES. DX: THORACIC/LUMBAR STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2008	Age: 72 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX CH PAIN: WORKED IN YARD ALL DAY YTDY RAK'G LEAVES & LAST EVEN'G DEVELOPED GRADUAL ONSET R-SIDED POSTERIOR RIB PAIN WORSE W UPPER TORSO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/20/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT, HX OF STENT PLACEMENT, PRESENTS WITH EXERTIONAL NEAR SYNCOPE WHILE RAKING LEAVES ON LAWN. D:ANGINA, ACS, PNA, PTX, EMPHYSEMA. ADMIT
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/07/2008	Age: 76 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: Other unpowered garden tools
C/O THROACIC BACK PAIN THAT DEVELOPED RADUALLY AFTER RAKING THE LEAVES >>MUSCLE STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/18/2008	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
56 YOM WAS RAKING YARD AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/04/2008	Age: 56 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT STATES CHEST PAIN WHILE USING A RAKING UP GRASS AT HOME CHEST PAIN , MI
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/29/2008	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PATIENT WAS HOEING IN HER GARDEN YESTERDAY AND NOW COMES IN WITH CHEST PAIN DX NON CARDIAC CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/13/2008	Age: 61 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: Dislocation
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
DX RIB SUBLUXATION: YTDY W DIGGING HIT SELT TO STERNUM W HANDLE OF SHOVEL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/03/2008	Age: 72 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: Other unpowered garden tools
THORACIC STRAIN: RT CHEST CONTUSION: RAKING VOLCANIC ROCK OFF HILL AT HOME, SLIPPED ON THE ROCK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS DIGGING AND FELL ONTO END OF SHOVEL. DX: CHEST CONT, CLINICAL RIB FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/2008	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BACK PAIN-AFTER SHOVELING DIRT-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2008	Age: 77 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS DIGGING IN FLOWER GARDEN WHEN SHE FELL. DX. RIB CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/23/2008	Age: 91 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: Other unpowered garden tools
STRAIN BACK - 91 YO FEMALE CO BACK PAIN RADIATING INTO SHOULDER AFTER S HE WAS OUT RAKING IN YARD - VERY TIRED AND LETHARGIC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2008	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
MOVING DIRT WITH SHOVEL, HURT CHEST. DX CHEST WALL STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/15/2008	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
74 Y/O M INJURED UPPER BACK WHILE SHOVELING AT HOME. DX; UPPER BACK STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/2008	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
BACK PAIN AFTER RAKING LEAVES DX; THORACIC STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/20/2008	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
CHEST WALL CONT. PT WAS SHOVELING AND FELL AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/02/2008	Age: 61 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: Fracture
Product: Other unpowered garden tools
PT WAS RAKING THIS EVENING AND FE;LL FRACTURED RIB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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