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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,218
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/04/2010 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| 45 Y/O/M INJURED WRIST OPENING UP BOLTS AT HOME WITH A WRENCH 2 WEEKS AGO DX/ RT WRIST FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2010 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 49 YOM GOT STUCK IN THE WRIST W/RUSTY NAIL. DX WRIST PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2010 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 44 YR OLD MALE HAD NAIL GO INTO WRIST FROM NAIL GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2010 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 32 YOM ROOFING HIS HOUSE HAD 4 NAILS ENTER HIS WRIST FROM A NAIL GUN, FELL ON THE ROOF. DX-PUNCTURE WOUND RIGHT WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2010 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 70 YOF TRIPPED ON A NAIL STICKING UP ON THE BOARDWALK AND FELL FRACTURE WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2010 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 23 Y/O/M INJURED WRIST ON A NAIL AT HOME` DX/ RT WRIST ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2010 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls |
| R WRIST P.W./39YOM WHILE AT SISTERS HOUSE SUSTAINED PUNCTURE WOUND R WR IST FROM NAIL STICKING OUT OF WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2010 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 19YOM ABRASION WRIST, LEAVING HOME SCRAPPED WRIST ON RUSTY NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2010 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| FELL ON A WOODEN BOARD WITH A NAIL STICKING OUT OF IT. PUNCTURE WOUND W RIST RIGHT. 37 YOM* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2010 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 62 YOM C/O WRIST PAIN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT A 16 PENNY NAIL FROM NAIL GUN INTO RIGHT WRIST. DX-FOREIGN BODY WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2010 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Saws |
| 16YOWM PT WAS CUTTING RUSTY NAILS W/A SAWS ALL SAW AT NEIGHBOR'S TEARI NG DOWN BARN AND CUT L WRIST. DX. LAC L WRIST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2010 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 12YOM,ABRASION TO LEFT WRIST S/P SCRAPED LEFT WRIST ON A RUSTY NAIL A THE PARK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2010 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WRIST LAC, 28 YOM WRIST ACROSSED AN EXPOSED NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2010 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 43 YOM, ABCESS ON WRIST, PT. REPORTS SNAGGED WRIST ON NAIL 6-7 DAYS AG O, BEEN DRAINING PUS OUT OF IT SINCE, MASS HAS GROWN IN SIZE AND PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2010 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Doors |
| 67YOM SLAMMED HAND ON DOOR , NAIL VS. WRIST DX: PUNCTURE WOUND TO WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2010 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 43 YO M, PATIENT COMPLAINING OF PUNCTURE WOUND TO LEFT WRIST FROM NAIL, DX WRIST WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2010 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 25YOF PUNCTURE WOUND WITH MILD CELLULITIS OF RIGHT WRIST - STUCK BY RUSTY NAIL IN FIREWOOD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2010 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WRIST LAC-24YOF STATES THAT SHE CUT WRIST ON A NAIL IN THE GARAGE AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 22 YOM POKED WRIST WITH A NAIL/WRIST PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2010 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WRIST PW-47YOM-INJURED ON A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2010 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 16 YOM LAC TO WRIST WHEN STRUCK ON A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2010 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WRIST PW-26YOM-HIT A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2010 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Lawn mowers |
| 42YOM CUT LEFT WRIST WITH SCREW FROM LAWN MOWER PUNCTURE WOUND OF WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2010 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 55YOM WAS THROWING GARBAGE INTO A DUMPSTER STRUCK WRIST ON A RUSTY NAIL;PUNCTURE WOUND WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2010 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 62 YOF STUCK A NAIL IN RIGHT WRIST, RED AND WARM TO TOUCN. DX-PUNCTURE WOUND WRIST WITH CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2010 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 39 YOM LAC TO L WRIST ON NAIL DX: WRIST LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2010 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Doors |
| 29YOF PUNCTURE WOUND TO WRIST INJURED ON A NAIL STICKING OUT OF THE DOO R AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2010 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 36YOM AT HOME FELL ON NAIL PUNCTURING R WRIST/ DX WRIST R PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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