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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 870
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives, Drinking glasses |
| LACERATION TO CHEST. DISHES & KNIVES STACKED ON TOWEL AT HOME. PT PULLE D ON TOWEL, GLASS BROKE & KNIVES FELL CAUSING LAC TO CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives |
| VERBAL FIGHT WITH BOYFRIEND TOOK KITCHEN KNIFE MADE ABRASIONS ON WRIST AND CHEST, SAID SHE DID NOT MEAN TO HARM HERSELF. DX-ABRASIONS CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Knives |
| PT ADMITTED WITH MULTIPLE PUNCTURE WOUNDS TO UPPER BACK FROM KNIFE IN STREET - PT GAVE NO INFORMATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/01/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives, Beds or bedframes |
| PT PLACE KNIVE ON BED AND FORGOT IT WAS THERE DX: LAC LT BREAST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Knives |
| PT AT SWAP MEET LOOKING AND TESTING LONG THIN KNIFE WHEN ACCIDENTALLY S TABBED SELF IN CHEST. DENIES SA. D:STAB WOUND, HEMOTHORAX. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/01/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Knives, Beds or bedframes |
| PW LEFT BREAST.PT ACCIDENTLY LANDED ON A PARING KNIFE ON HER BED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PT USING A KNIFE TO CUT SOME WOOD WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED STRIKING HIM I N THE CHEST SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| CHEST LAC, PT WAS HIT WITH A KNIFE THAT SOMEONE WAS THROWING INTO DIRT AND IT BOUNCED UP HITTING HER IN CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PT LAC TORSO WHILE TAKING KNIVE OUT OF PACKAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PT WITH LAC TO CHEST WALL WITH KNIFE ACCIDENTALLY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2007 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PT FELL ONTO KNIFE WHILE CARRYING IT. DX: CHEST LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/30/2007 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Knives |
| BROTHER STABBED THIS PT IN CHEST WITH 6" KITCHEN KNIFE ADMITTED WITH 1 CM STAB WOUND TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/15/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Knives, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| CHEST STAB WOUND-PT STATES HE FELL ON A KNIFE IN A DRYING RACK-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/01/2007 | Age: 0 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Knives |
| APPOX. 25 YO STABBED SELF IN CHEST WITH LARGE HUNTING KNIFE. SUICIDAL. D: STAB WOUND CHEST, CARDIAC ARREST, RESP. FAILURE. DIED. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 03/25/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives, Alcohol |
| CHEST LAC, PT ETOH INTOXICATED, COOKING, FELL DOWN & SUST INJURY WITH AT KNIFE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| LACERATED UPPER TRUNK WITH A KNIFE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PT HOLDING KNIFE FELL AND STABBED CHEST DX// STAB WOUND CHEST LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2007 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives, Foods |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY STABBED W/KITCHEN KNIFE WHILE CUTTING CHICKEN, LAC TO C HEST |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/13/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Knives |
| PT & BROTHER WERE PLAY FIGHTING & PT WAS ACCID STABBED W/KNIFE. DX: STAB WOUND TO BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives, Stairs or steps |
| FELL DOWN STAIRS LANDING ON A PARING KNIFE ON RIGHT LOWER CHEST. PT IS INTOXICATED. DX: 1 CM LACERATION R INNER LOWER QUADRANT OF BREAST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY STABBED BY 6 INCH KNIFE THROWN BY SOMEONE FROM A DISTAN CE DX// STAB WOUND UPPER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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