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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 702
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| FELL HIT HEAD ON NAIL DX: PUNCTURE TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls |
| 10 YOWM WALKE OUT OF A ROOM AND CUT HEAD ON A NAIL STICKING OUT FROM A WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WHILE AT ***, A SPOOL OF WASHER TUBING FELL AND HIT PT ON HEAD.D: CONT USION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Floors or flooring materials |
| LAYING ON FLOOR, JERKED HEAD BACK AND A NAIL WENT INTO SCALP. DX. SCALP PUNCTURE WOUND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| SCALP LACERATION.PT LACERATED HEAD ON A NAIL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls |
| PT AT A PUBLIC PLACE WHEN THERE WAS A NAIL STICKING OUT OF THE WALL FEL L STRIKING HEAD LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| SCALP LAC-SLIPPED-FELL-HIT HEAD ON A BOLT IN A BOAT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Go-carts |
| RIDING GO-CART AND HIT HEAD ON SCREW OF GO-CART AT MIDNIGHT. DX. LAC S CALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Other manual workshop tools |
| PT WAS TRYING TO PULL NAIL OUT OF BOARD. CROWBAR HIT IN FORHEAD .LAC T O HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| HIT HEAD ON BOARD CONTAINING NAIL AT NEIGHBORS. DX; LACERATION SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| TRIPPED BY DOG AND CUT HEAD ON NAIL STICKING OUT OF FLOOR. DX SCALP LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| ANOTHER CHID THREW A NAIL @ HIM; SCALP LAC HEAD INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT SUSTAINED LACERATION TO HEAD FROM NAIL WHEN SHE HAD SEIZURE AT CHURC H, PUNCTURE HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Weight lifting |
| PT SCRAPED TOP OF HEAD ON A NAIL FROM BAR WEIGHTS, LACERATION TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| STRUCK HEAD ON NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, House repair or construction materials |
| WAS HIT ON HEAD WITH A BOARD THAT HAD NAILS STICKING OUT OF IT, ABRASIO NS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| RUSTY NAIL WENT INTO HEAD DX: PUNCURE WOUND SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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