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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 564
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/18/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT SMASHED FOREARM W/HAMMER. DX: SOFT TUSSUE SWELLING R FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2007 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| HAMMER SLIPPED AND HIT RIGHT FOREARM METAL CHIPPED OFF INTO ARM FOREI GN BOCY ARM # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| 30 YO USING HAMMER GOT METAL IN ARM FOREIGN BODY SOFT TISSUE FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2007 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers, Treehouses or playhouses |
| BLOW TO L FA AT HOME WHEN HAMMER, FELL FROM TREEHOUSE. DX. L FA SWELLI NG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| LEFT FOREARM FB.PT HIT A NAIL WITH HAMMER AND NAIL HEAD HIT AND EMBEDDE D IN FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers |
| FOREARM LAC-HIT ARM W/A HAMMER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| ACCIDENTALLY HIT (L) FOREARM WITH A HAMMER DX- CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT DX LACERATION LT ARM - S/P PT CUT LT WRIST W/METAL HAMMER AT HOME TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT ARM AND FOREIGN OBJECT TO LEFT ARM AFTER ROC K LODGED IN ARM AFTER PT WAS HITTING ROCKS WITH HAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT SUST FB TO FOREARM HIT ROCK WITH HAMMER PIECE OF HAMMER WENT INTO PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 41YOM WAS REPAIRING HIS HOUSE ROOF CAUGHT LEFT FOREARM ON A NAIL WAS IN A HAMMER,WHEN HE SLIPPED;SUPERFICIAL PUNCTURE WOUND FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2007 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| ARM PAIN &SWELLING S/P USING SLEDGEHAMMER " CELLULITIS" |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/24/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hammers |
| WHILE HAMMERING SHARP OBJECT, SHARP OBJECT WENT INTO ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT HIT IN FOREARM WITH HAMMER AT MOTHERS HOUSE DX// RIGHT FOREARM CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2007 | Age: 102 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hammers, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT FELL ON THE FLOOR AT THE NURSING HOME C/O RIBS AND WRIST, TURNED AROUND AFTER RETRIEVING A HAMMER. DX-FRACTURE LEFT DISTAL RADIUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT RECEIVED FOREIGN BODY WHEN USING A SLEDGEHAMMER AND A SPLITTING WEDG E. DX: FOREIGN BODY, LEFT FOREAM, REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| 30 YO HIT ON ARM BY HAMMER CONTUSION FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2007 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Ceilings and walls |
| PT HAMMERING STUFF INTO WALL WHEN HAMMER SLIPPED AND HIT FOREARM. D: CO NTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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