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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,577
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/09/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT STANDING NEXT TO A FRIEND WHO WAS USING A GRINDER AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A POWER GRINDER LACERATED LT UPPER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 77 Y/O INJURED FINGERS ON AN ELECTRIC GRINDER AT HOME. DX-LAC. LEFT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| C/O BILATERAL EYE PAIN AFTER GRINDING IRON AT HOME. DX: FOREIGN BODIES EMBEDDED IN RT AND LT CORNEA EYES* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS USING A METAL GRINDER AND CUT LEFT INDEX FINGER, LACERATION TO LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE INJ L FINGER ON A HIGH SPEED GRINDER/ DX 2CM DEEP LAC L INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Lawn mowers |
| F.B. R EYE W/REMOVAL: CORNEAL ABRASION: SHARPENING MOWER BLADES,WEARING GLASSES, USING *** ROTARY GRINDER, F.B. EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT SUS LACERATION TO THIGH AFTER GRINDER SLIPPED OUT OF HAND CUTTING THIGH% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PIECE OF METAL FLEW OFF GRINDING WHEEL INTO EYE,IRRITATING/ITCHY. FB R T EYE, ACUTE RT EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT SUATINED A LACERATION TO HAND WHILE USING A POWER GRINDER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS AT HOME USING A POWER GRINDER, IT KICKED BACK CAUSING A LACERATI ON TO RT EYEBROW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS GRINDING SOMETHING ALUMINUM, THE GRINDING WHEEL BROKE OFF AND BOUNCED OFF A PT'S WRIST, CAUSING LAC. DX: LACERATION TO WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WITH FRACTURE TO LEFT 3RD FINGER AFTER GETTING IT CAUGHT IN GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT WRIST AFTER GETTING CUT WITH GRINDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| WAS USING A BENCH GRINDER. ACCIDENTALLY CUT RT. INDEX FINGER. LACERATI ON, RIGHT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LEFT FINGER LACERATION FROM GRINDER WHEEL. PATIENT LEFT BEFORE BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Eyeglasses |
| PT GRINDING METAL YESTERDAY IN HIS HOME BACKYARD WAS WEARING EYEGLASSES BUT NOT PROTECTIVE GOGGLES GOT A PIECE IN LEFT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT LAC RT HAND USING A CAR BUFFER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| SCULPTOR GRINDING METAL ON GRINDER AND GROUND ALL FOUR FINGERS DOWN PAS T NAIL BED PARTIALLY AMPUTATING THEM |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/14/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Clothing accessories |
| RT FINGER LAC.W/REPAIR: USING ELECTRIC GRINDER TO CUT STEEL,WEARING WOR K GLOVES,HAND SLIPPED,GRINDER CUT THRU GLOVES, *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| LT ELBOW LACERATION WITH REPAIR: MULTIPLE LT ELBOW LACERATIONS, USING ELECTRIC GRINDER, WHEEL BROKE OFF, FLEW ONTO ARM, CUTTING BRASS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF A FINGER FROM A GRINDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PATIENT CUT FOREARM ON GRINDER AT HOME. DX; 4 CM LACERATION TO LEFT F OREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT AT HOME GRINDING A PEICE OF METAL FB L EYE/ DX FB L EYE METAL SHAVING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A BENCH GRINDER AT HOME AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO INDEX F INGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT HAS 3 LACERATIONS ON L FOREARM FROM CINDER GRINDER DX LACERATION L FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| WAS USING A POWER GRINDER AND HAS LAC WITH RUPTURED TENDONS OPEN FX O F ULNA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/23/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| INJURED HAND ON ELECTRIC GRINDER AT HOME CONTUSION HAND * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers, Drapery or curtain rods, hooks or rings |
| PT.INJ.L.2ND.FINGER AT HOME WHEN USING A POWER GRINDER TO CUT METAL CUR TIN ROD,HIT FINGER. DX; L.2ND.FINGER LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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