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Accidents - Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks - Year 2007 - Upper Trunk

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 512
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Date: 12/18/2007Age: 42 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Snow throwers/blowers
PT HAD BOLT SHOOT OUT OF SNOWBLOWER EMBEDDED IN CHEST @ HOME - PUNCTURE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 12/11/2007Age: 11 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT SWALLOWED A WASHER(NUT)_FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/04/2007Age: 35 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT FELL ON 6 INCH NAIL. SELF PULLED NAIL. D: PUNCTURE WOUND TO CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/21/2007Age: 11 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
CUT BACK ON NAIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/27/2007Age: 19 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
DX PUNCTURE WOUND TO STOMACH: FROM NAIL AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/23/2007Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT WAS POKED IN BACK BY A NAIL. DX: LWBS.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)


Date: 06/29/2007Age: 5 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Chair, rocking
PLAYING ON ROCKING CHAIR, SCRAPED UPPER BACK ONTO A NAIL "LAC''
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/08/2007Age: 12 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
FELL ON RUSTY RAILROAD SPIKE, PUNCTURE WOUND CHEST, ROUND 7MM LOW ATTEN UATION LESION W/IN KIDNEY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 06/03/2007Age: 20 monthsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT C/O SWALLOWED THUMBTACK. DX ESOPHAGEAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/21/2007Age: 38 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers
PT DX NAIL GUN INJURY TO STERNUM - C/O A NAIL GUN WENT OFF AND HIT PT IN ANTERIOR CHEST.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/18/2007Age: 84 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT FELL ONTO NAIL IN BOARD. DX: ACUTE ABR BACK.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/14/2007Age: 13 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
13YOM WAS IN HIS WOODEN CLUBHOUSE, A NAIL WAS PROTRUDING,STRUCK HIM IN THE UPPER BODY;TRAUMATIC LACERATION,RIGHT CHEST WALL,3CM FULL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/19/2007Age: 25 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Containers
A BOX RUSTY NAILS SCREWS AND RAZORS FELL MULITPLE UPPER CHEST ABRASIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/05/2007Age: 10 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
CONTUSED CHEST ON NAIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/18/2007Age: 77 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Stools
CHEST CT-HIT CHEST WHILE TIGHTENING A BOLT IN A STOOL-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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