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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,232
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/19/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STEPPED ON A PENCIL ; LEAD STUCK IN FOOT. D: FB RIGHT HEEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Book bags or back carriers |
| STEPPED ON HIS SISTER'S BACKPACK, & A PEN WENT THROUGH HIS FOOT DX: FB REMOVAL FROM RT FOOT, WITH SEDATION |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS CHASING AFTER HER NEPHEW WHEN SHE STEPPED ON A PIECE OF A PENCIL W/ R FOOT. HAS PAIN IN FOOT W/ WEIGHT BEARING. DX FB R FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Footwear |
| STEPPED ON A PENCIL THRU SOCK PUNCTURING FOOT AND INFECTED,CELLULITIIS NOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT DX LT FOOT LACERATION - STEPPED ON A PENCIL JUST PTA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT STEPPED ON MECHANICAL PENCIL LAST NIGHT, HAS LEAD IN FOOT UNABL E TO GET OUT; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS CARRYING A PENCIL WHEN THE PENCIL FELL FROM HAND AND HIS FOOT WA S PENETRATED BY PENCIL AT SCHOOL.DX:FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL OF FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STEPPED ON A PENCIL W/L FOOT AND LEAD BROKE OFF. DX. LAC L FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STEPPPED IN A PENCIL SUSTAINED PINCTURE WOUND TO FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 13 YOF STUBBED 4TH TOE SEVERAL DAYS AGO, RIGHT FOOT STEPPED ON TODAY, H AD LEFT EYE HIT BY INK PEN, DX: FOOT CONTUSION, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT JUMPED AND LANDED ON A MECHANICAL PENCIL. D: FOOT ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 32 Y/O C/O TRAUMATIC FOOT PAIN, HAD PENCIL LEAD EMBEDDED IN FOOT, STEPPED ON PENCIL. DX-PUNCTURE WOUND RIGHT FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STEPPED ON A PENCIL AT HOME TODAY DX/ LEFT PLANTAR PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STUCK FOOT WITH LEAD PENCIL, POSSIBLE FB TO FOOT, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 31YOM WAS WITH FRIEND WHO THREW A PENCIL UP IN THE AIR,PENCIL CAME DOWN STRIKING FOOT;FOOT LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 3 YOF FELL AND PENCIL TIP GOT STUCK IN LEFT FOOT F/B FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 12 YOM STEPPED ON A PENCIL AND SUSTAINED A PUNCTURE WOUND TO LEFT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON PENCIL;DX LACERATED FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Clothing accessories |
| PT STATES DROPPED PENCIL OUT OF PURSE AND STEPPED ON IT DX RT FOOT PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STEPPED ON PENCIL AND LEAD BROKE OFF, NOW W/SWELLING, PAIN AND FOREI GN BODY TO FOOT, UNABLE TO REMOVED FB; FOREIGN BODY FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| FOOT FB-STEPPED ON SHARPENED LEAD PENCIL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT HAS GRAPHITE SPLINTER FROM GRAPHITE PENCIL IN HEEL OF FOOT; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Rugs or carpets |
| 10Y/O,F,PICKING PENCIL OFF RUG AT HOME, TIP WENT INTO FOOT, OPEN WOUND, F/B REMOVAL W/SUTURES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Exercise |
| DX: STEPPED ON PENCIL, PENCIL GRAPHITE STUCK IN FOOT; THUMB SPRAIN ALSO WHEN RUNNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| RETAINED PENCIL LEAD IN FOOT WHEN STEPPED ON PENCIL;DX FOREIGN BODY FOO T |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STEPPED ON A PENCIL YEST AND THE LEAD BROKE OFF IN FOOT, SM PUNCTURE WOUND TO FOOT W/FB, LEAD REMOVED; FOREIGN BODY IN FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON PENCIL PUNCTURE WOUND TO FOOT # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| @ HOME-STEPPED ON PENCIL-PUNCTURE WOUND-FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON PENCIL;DX PUNCTURED FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT HAD PIECE OF PENCIL 'LEAD' STUCK IN TOP OF LEFT FOOT DX; PUNCTURE WO UND OF LEFT FOOT WHILE AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT DX FOREIGN BODY TO RT FOOT - S/P AFTER PT STEPPED ON A SHARP PENCIL AND TIP OF PENCIL BROKE (HOME). |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT STEPPED ON PENCIL. DX; PENCIL LEAD IN FOOT. DX FOREIGN BODY TO RIGHT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| FOOT PW-STEPPED ON A COLORED PENCIL-NO FB-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT RUNNING BAREFOOT IN HOUSE WHEN STEPPED ON A PEN; FOOT LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON PENCIL AND RETAINED LEAD IN FOOT;DX FOREIGN BODY FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Footwear |
| PT JUMPED INTO HIS SNEAKERS AND THERE WAS A GOLF PENCIL IN SNEAKER SUS TAINED A PW TO FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON A LEAD PENCIL AT HOME. DX PLANTER PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON A PENCIL. DX FB FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| RIGHT FOOT FB. PT WAS BAREFOOT AND STEPPED ON A LEAD PENCIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON A PENCIL. DX FB FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON A PENCIL. DX PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PTS MOM STATES CHILD STEPPED ON A PENCIL LEAD DX F.O.B. IN RT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| C/O TRAUMATIC FOOT PAIN, STEPPED ON PENCIL LEAD, BROKE OFF IN FOOT. DX-FOREIGN BODY LEFT FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PAT SUS FOREIGN BODY TO FOOT AFTER PENCIL POINT LODGED INTO FOOT% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STEPPED ON PENCIL LEAD FROM MECHANICAL PENCIL APX 1 CM PROTRUDING & WAS ABLE TO BE GRABBED AND PULLED OUT OF FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STEPPED ON PENCIL AND HAS A PIECE IN HER FOOT DX// FB RIGHT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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