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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 281
See also: Lethal accidents, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 03/01/2010 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 52 YOM INJURED CHEST WITH NAIL FROM NAIL GUN.D X-PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT ANTERIOR CHEST WALL, TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER HOSPITAL |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 09/29/2009 | Age: 89 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: Nail guns or stud drivers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PATIENT WAS WORKING IN GARAGE, SET A NAIL GUN DOWN BESIDE HIM, IT ACCIDENTALLY FIRED, SHOOTING NAIL IN CHEST. DX-NAIL GUN INJURY-CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2009 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT SHOT SELF IN CHEST ACCIDENTALLY W/NAIL GUN; HAD GUN TURNEDE WRONG WA Y. PULLED NAIL OUT. DX:PENETRATING NAIL WOUND CHEST/UPPER ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/20/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WAS USING A POWER NAIL GUN TO INJECT NAILS INTO WALL BOARD; DEVELOPED C HEST PAIN. CHEST WALL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 09/09/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 53 YO MALE WAS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY NAIL GUN PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2007 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 77 YO MALE HAS NAIL GUN WOUND TO HEAD AND CHESTCTB |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 09/27/2006 | Age: 55 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| NAIL GUN WENT OFF 2 FT IN FRONT OF PT, 18 GUAGE NAILS GRAZED PT IN THE CHEST DX: ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2006 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| SHOT SELF WITH NAIL GUN/UPPER TRUNK FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 56 YO MALE HAD NAIL GUN TO CHEST SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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