Accidents - Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks - 0-5 years old - Year 2008 - Face

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,307
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Date: 12/18/2008	Age: 23 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls
FELL ON WALL WITH NAIL IN IT;DX LACERATED FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT PUT A SCREW UP LEFT NOSTRIL THIS MORNING NO BLEEDING OR PAIN. DX NASAL FOREIGN BODY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
NOSE FB-PUT A THUMBTACK IN NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/21/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT CHILD PUT A SCREW UP HER NOSE AT HOME TODAY DX// NASAL FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/17/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
NOSE FB-SMALL BOLT REMOVED FROM NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/08/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls
NAIL STICKING OUT OF WALL LAC FACE AS CHILD WALKED BY IT AT HIS AUNTS H OUSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/01/2008	Age: 20 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
EYELID INJURY FROM PICTURE HOOK GETTING CAUGHT UP UNDER RIGHT EYELID. DX-ACUTE RIGHT UPPER INNER EYELID LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2008	Age: 20 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls
FELL, STRUCK FOREHEAD ON SCREW IN WALL/ FORHEAD LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2008	Age: 20 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
FELL ON EXPOSED NAIL/PW CHIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/09/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
2 YO STRUCK FACE ON HEAD OF NAIL LAC EYELID
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 09/24/2008	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Monkey bars, playground gyms or other playground climbing apparatus
AT PLAYGROUND AND HIT HEAD ON A SCREW IN THE ***. DX LACERATIONFOREHEA D
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Stairs or steps
PT WAS WALKING DOWN THE STAIRS WHEN SHE CUT HER FACE ON A NAIL. HAS LAC TO L CHEEK. UNK WHERE NAIL LOCATED. DX FACIAL LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/20/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
FELL GARDENING ON NAIL, DX; FACIAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls
HIT FACE ON POINT OF NAIL IN WALL DX: LACERATION TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/10/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Poles
PT RAN INTO NAIL STICKING OUT FROM POLE WHILE AT THE PLAYGROUND, NOW W/ PUNCTURE WOUND TO FOREHEAD, NO LOC; PUNCTURE WOUND TO FOREHEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/02/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
SCRATCHED BY A METAL NAIL. DX ABRASION FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Poles
WAS CLIMBING A GOAL POST WHEN PULLED DOWN BY A FRIEND&PT FELL HITTIN CH IN ON A BOLT>>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/24/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
4YOM PLAYING IN THE BEDROOM,ACCIDENTLY STRUCK LEFT SIDE OF FACE ON A BOLT ON THE BED;EYEBROW LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers
IN DRESSING ROOM AT STORE WHEN SLIPPED ON HANGER AND HIT HEAD ON SCREW ON MIRROR. DX: FOREHEAD LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/16/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
FACE PW-ACCIDENTLY HIT W/A NAIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/12/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT STRUCK HER FOREHEAD ON AN OVERHANG TO THE PARK W/ A BOLT IN IT. HAS LAC IN SHAPE OF BOLT ON FOREHEAD. NO LOC. DX FACIAL LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/25/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT FOUND AT HOME W/METAL SCREW IN MOUTH AND NOSEBLEED, ALSO HAD METAL S CREW IN NOSE AFTER BLEEDING CONTROLLED, FB REMOVED; NASAL FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2008	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
221YMO FELL CUTTING FOREHEAD ON A SCREW STICKING OUT FROM A BASEBOARD LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT PLACED METAL HEX NUT IN RIGHT NOSTRIL. FOREIGN BODY RIGH NOSTRIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
FB IN LT NARE(SCREW)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2008	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
FELL AGAINST NAIL;DX LACERATED FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches
DX FOREHEAD LAC: WRESTLING W DAD AND TRIPPED AND HIT HEAD ON NAIL THAT WAS STICKING OUT ABOUT 1/2CIM FROM COUCH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
NASAL FB-PT PUT SMALL SCREW UP NOSE-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/29/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
RAN TO DAD TELLING HIM THAT HE PUT A SCREW IN HIS NOSE >>FOREIGN BODY REMVOAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/14/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
DX: F.B. (METALIC WASHER) IN L NARE--REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
STUCK SMALL BOLT INTO NOSE/FB NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/27/2008	Age: 19 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PATIENT HIT HEAD ON A NAIL. DX-LACERATION FOREHEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/27/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
AT HOME PT PUT BLACK PLASTIC SCREW IN R NARE, DX SUSPECT FOREIGN BODY IN R NARE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/19/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
MOTHER STATES THAT PT FELL ONTO TACKS THAT HOLD CARPET DOWN PT HAS LAC TO (L) CHEEK AND (L) ARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/16/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT FELL AND CHEEK LANDED ON A SCREW. D : FACIAL LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/09/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Fences or fence posts
HIT HEAD ON BLUNT END OF RUSTY NAIL STICKING OUT OF FENCE HAS LAC TO F OREHEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/03/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PATIENT PUT SCREW IN RIGHT NARES, FOREIGN BODY RIGHT NARE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/28/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
TACK IN NOSE. DX FB NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/12/2008	Age: 12 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
LAC FORHEAD ON A NAIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT PUT A SCREW UP LEFT NOSTRIL FB NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/19/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PUT TACKIN NOSE;DX FOREIGN BODY NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT TRIPPED AND HIT HEAD ON METAL BOLT AT PARK. DX: FOREHEAD PW/LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/13/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT CHILD PUT A THUMB TACK UP HER NOSE DX// NASAL FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/08/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
2 Y/O MALE SUS LACERATION TO FACE DUE TO NAIL HANGING IN WALL DX FACIAL LACERATION%
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/05/2008	Age: 11 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Ceilings and walls
PT CUT FOREHEAD ON A NAIL THAT WAS STICKING OUT OF THE WALL, AT HOME DX: FOREHEAD LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT PLAYING W/SCREWS EARLIER TODAY AND NOW W/SCREW IN NOSE, FB REMOVED; FOREIGN BODY IN NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks
PT WAS RUNNING IN BASEMENT AND LACERATED TEMPLE AREA OF HEAD WITH NAIL. DX: 2CM JAGGED LACERATION OF LEFT TEMPLE AREA (FACE).
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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