Accidents - Manual snow or ice removal tools - 50+ years old - Year 2003 - Lower Trunk

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,304
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Date: 12/28/2003	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT. HAD ACUTE LOWER BACK PAIN FROM SHOVELING SNOW FEW DAYS AGO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2003	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SPRAIN LWR BACK, PT STS SHOVELING SNOW & SUST INJURY AT HOME, C/O SEVERE PAIN RADIATING DOWN WHEN SITTING, NO TINGLING SENSATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2003	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW AT HOME TWO DAYS AGO, LOWER BACK PAIN BEGAN TODAY. DX LOW BACK STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2003	Age: 71 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
71 YO MALE HAS LOW BACK PAIN FROM SHOVELING SNOW LAST WEEK LOW BACK STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2003	Age: 60 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW AND INJ BACK--PAIN NOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2003	Age: 92 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
RT HIP FRACTURE.PT WAS SHOVELLING SNOW AND FELL ONTO HIP.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/09/2003	Age: 51 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT WAS OUT SHOVELING SNOW AND PAIN IN HER LOWER BACK BECAME SEVERE/ BAC K STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/08/2003	Age: 53 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN - 53 YOF C/O LOWER BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2003	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE WHILE SHOVELING SNOW AND STRUCK RT HIP ON BU MPER F CAR LEFT HIP FRACTURE
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 12/07/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SPRAIN LWR BACK, VIA EMS, PT STS SHOVELING SNOW & SUST INJURY AT HOME, C/O PAIN, TENDERNESS, NO ACTIVE SWELLING OR DIZZINESS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/12/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT COMPLAINT OF BACK PAIN WITH SHOVELING, ACUTE L SACROILITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2003	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT C/O LOWER BACK PAIN S/P SHOVELING SNOW X1 MONTH AGO.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/16/2003	Age: 60 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT FELL SHOVELING SNOW, W WKS AGO (NOT TREATED) NOW WITH PAIN DX:BACK STRAIN, BUTTOCK AND LEG PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/09/2003	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT HAS BACK STRAIN AFTER SHOVEL SNOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/07/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW - BACK PAIN LOW BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2003	Age: 80 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW AND INJ BACK; L2 VERTEBRAE OSTEOMYELITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/03/2003	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
61 YO MALE HURT BACK SHOVELING SNOW AGAIN LUMBAR STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2003	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
53YOM-LUMBAR STRAIN-WHILE SHOVELING SNOW LAST WEEK-INJURED BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2003	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
NEPHROLITHIASIS, KIDNEY STONES - 59 YOM STATES X2 DAYS FROM SHOVELING S NOW, SEVERE SORENESS AND PAIN TO LEFT SIDE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2003	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW AND INJ BACK STRAINING IT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2003	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PATIENT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AT HOME A WEEK AGO, CONTINUES TO HAVE LEFT HIP PAIN. DX LEFT HIP STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SPRAIN LWR BACK, PT STS SHOVELING SNOW & SUST INJURY AT HOME, C/O UPPER/LOWER BACK PAIN, ARMS, NO LOC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/2003	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT STATES HE WAS SHOVELING SNOW, LIFTING TURNING AND BENDING DEVELOPED BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2003	Age: 66 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
INJURED SHOVELING-DX-ACUTE LOWER BACK PAIN, SCIATICA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2003	Age: 74 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
74YOM-LUMBAR STRAIN-SHOVELING SNOW YESTERDAY-HAS HAD DULL ACHE IN BACK SINCE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/22/2003	Age: 60 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT C/O BACK PAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW DX:LOW BACK STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/22/2003	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT STATES HE WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND DEVELOPED ABDOMINAL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/21/2003	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW TWISTED BACK RIGHT HIP STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/21/2003	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT STATES HE WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND THAT NIGHT DEVELOPED PAIN IN LOWER BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/20/2003	Age: 51 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW LUMBAR STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/20/2003	Age: 56 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SPRAIN LWR BACK, VIA EMS, PT STS SHOVELING SNOW & SUST INJURY AT HOME, C/O PAIN, NUMBNESS, UNABLE TO WALK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/19/2003	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
PT HAS LUMBAR STRAIN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW YESTERDAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/19/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
INJURED WITH SHOVEL WHILE SHOVELING DX=ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN, SCIATICA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN - 52 YOF C/O LOWER BACK PAIN THAT BEGAN AFTER SHOVELING SNOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
52 YO MALE WAS SHOVELING SNOW BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
55 YO MALE WAS SHOVELING SNOW LUMBAR MUSCLE SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2003	Age: 60 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND INJURED BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN - 52 YOM LOST FOOTING WHILE SHOVELING SNOW AND FELL TWIST ING HIS LOWER BACK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2003	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
WHILE SHOVELING SNOW APPROXIMATELY 0930 AT HOME FELT SOMETHING SNAP IN HER LOWER BACK. DX ACUTELY SPRAINED LOW BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2003	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
TRAUMA PARALYSIS R/O CORD COMPRESSION. PT FELL IN DRIVEWAY WHEN SHOVELI NG SNOW,
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/15/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND TWISTED BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/12/2003	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING SOME SNOW AND SLIPPED AND TWISTED BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2003	Age: 59 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
59 YO FEMALE WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND DEVELOPED BACK PAIN BACK PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/06/2003	Age: 77 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
77 YOMC WAS SHOVELING SNOW 2 DAYS AGO AND HAS HAD SEVERE PAIN IN THE HI P SINCE THEN/ SEVERE HIP PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/06/2003	Age: 86 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SLIPPED AS SHE WAS SHOVELING SNOW DX: FRACTURED RIGHT HIP
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 01/27/2003	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND FELL BACKWARDS AND INJURED BACK .
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/20/2003	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN-SINCE HE SHOVELED SNOW @ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/18/2003	Age: 68 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND INJURED BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/18/2003	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
SHOVELING SNOW AND INJ BACK;SCIATICA NOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2003	Age: 77 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS SHOVELING SNOW AND INJURED BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2003	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
CC:BACK PN ~1TO 2 WKS- SHOVELING SNOW, FELT MID BACK PN. DX: ACUTE BACK PN, R/O COMPRESSION FRX'S.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/15/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
55 YO M USING SHOVEL DEVELOPED BACK PAIN BACK PAIN(LOW BACK)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2003	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULAR STRAIN - 57 YOM THINKS HE PULLED A MUSCLE RECEN TLY AFTER SHOVELING SNOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/11/2003	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
55-YOF SPRAINED HER LOWER BACK AS A RESULT OF SHOVELING SNOW AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/08/2003	Age: 76 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Manual snow or ice removal tools
LOW BACK PAIN/76YOM SHOVELLING SNOW THIS WEEKEND AND NOW HAS INCREASED PAIN IN LOWER BACK. WAS SHOVELLING AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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