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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 421
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/21/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT FELL STRIKING KNEE AGAINST A SCREW SUSTAINED A PW TO KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2006 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT FELL STRIKING LEFT KNEE AGAINST A NAIL SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO KNE E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Tools |
| PUNCTURE WOUND TO KNEE: DISMANTELING A PLACE FOR A FRIEND, OLD RUSTY 20 PENNY NAIL DRIVEN IN ABOVE KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2006 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| DX PUNCTURE RIGHT KNEE: KNEELED ON NAIL AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| KNEELED ONTO A BOLT DX: CONTUSION TO KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2006 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT DX LACERATION RT KNEE,LEG AND A NKLE - S/P STUCK,SCRATCHED BY A NAIL AT HOME X 3 DAYS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| LEFT KNEE PW. PT STEPPED ON A NAIL THAT WAS STICKING OUT OF GROUND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PATIENT HAD TRAUMATIC KNEE PAIN , NAIL WAS IN KNEE. DX-FOREIGN BODY KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/03/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WRESTLING AROUND WITH FRIEND AND PUNCTURE KNEE ON A RUSTY NAIL ON THE GROUND DX: R KNEE PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2006 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT KNELT DOWN ON A NAIL MONDAY, PT HERE NOW FOR REDNESS AND SWELLING AT SITE, CELLULITIS KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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