Between 1998 and 2017, more than 50,000 people in the United States went to emergency rooms seeking treatment for avocado-related knife wounds.
Thousands of people slice their hands and fingers every year while cutting avocados, and research shows that most of these injuries occur from April through July. Hand surgeons see these injuries so often that they have a name for it: Avocado hand.
Wagner and his colleagues encountered so many patients needing hand surgery because of avocado-related knife wounds that in 2020 they published a study that examined the phenomenon’s nationwide prevalence. They found that between 1998 and 2017, more than 50,000 people in the United States went to emergency rooms seeking treatment for avocado-related knife wounds.
“That doesn’t seem like a lot, but it’s 1 in every 50 knife injuries,” said Matthew E. Rossheim, the lead author of the study and an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. “It’s shocking how many ER department visits are related to avocado hand cutting injuries.”
Most of the injuries took place on weekends from April through July. Wagner said he suspects this was because people are more frequently cooking, barbecuing and gathering outside for social occasions when the weather warms up, and that people may end up being a little less careful than usual.
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