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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 397
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/02/2003 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| CUT FINGER ON DIRTY WRENCH/ LAC LMF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2003 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WAS USING A RATCHET ON TIRE AND SLIPPED. DX: AMPUTATION R THUMB TIB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2003 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| WAS WORKING ON PICKUP WITH WRENCH, WRENCH SLIPPED, LAC TO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2003 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT HAD A WRENCH FALL ONTO HIS RIGHT THUMB CONTUSION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2003 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT USING A WRENCH AT HOME WHEN IT SLIPPED SUSTAINED A CONTUSION TO RIGH T THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2003 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PATIENT PINCHED HIS FINGER WITH A PAIR OF PLIERS AT HOME. DX-FINGER PAIN AND SWELLING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2003 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| LACERATION FINGER - 83 YOM LACERATED HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER WITH A PAIR OF BOLT CUTTERS ABOUT 1/2 HR AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2003 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| 1.5 CM LACERATION TO RIGHT THUMB CUTTING WITH FENCIN PLIERS. LACERATION RIGHT THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2003 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| FRACTURE FINGER - 65 YOM WAS CHANGING A TIRE ON HIS CAR AT HOME WITH A LUG WRENCH AND INJURING HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2003 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Pipes |
| PATIENT WAS INSTALLING A PIPE WHEN THE WRENCH JAMMED SLIPPED AND CAME LOOSE INJURING HIS THUMB. DX-THUMB LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2003 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT USING A HOOK WRENCH AT HOME WHEN IT SLIPPED STRIKING HIM IN THE RIGH T FIFTH FINGER LACERATION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2003 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT CRUSHED L THUMB WITH BOLD CUTTERS, LACERATION L THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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