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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 58
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/26/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT HAD A SPLINTER FROM A PENCIL IN SCALP. DX-FOREIGN BODY SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Beds or bedframes |
| FELL OFF BED AND ONTO A PENCIL. DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT RUNNING WITH PENCIL AND FELL, NOW W/LAC TO SCALP AND ABRASION NEAR E YE, NO LOC; SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2009 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Day wear |
| DX PUNCTURE WD: CHILD W PICKED UP BY SISTER WHO HAD A PENCIL IN HER POCKET. CHILD BEGAN CRY'G & PUNCTURE WD NOTED TO POSTERIOR HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Beds or bedframes |
| PT JUMPING ON BED WITH FULL LENGTH PENCIL IN HAND - FELL - PENCIL WENT THRU EYE AND INTO BRAIN - PT TRANS TO PEDI HOSP; PT DIED FROM INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
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