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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 430
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2010 | Age: 2 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 |
| 2 YR M CUT HEAD ON NAIL;DX LACERATED SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2010 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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, Handrails, railings or banisters |
| 2 YOM SLID ON ICE AT GROCERY STORE, HIT HEAD ON METAL BOLT OF A RAILING . DX: PUNTURE WOUND SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2010 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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, Benches |
| 3YOM FELL WHEN RUNNING IN CHURCH, HIT HEAD ON NAIL IN BENCH; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2010 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| 13MOM;PT FELL BACK OFF OF PORCH AND LANDED ON DIRT BELOW; HIT HEAD ON A BENT NAIL. D: SUPERFICIAL FOREIGN BODY TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2010 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Grills |
| 5 YO M AT HOME WAS RUNNING OUTSIDE, DUCKED UNDER BBQ GRILL, HIT HEAD ON RUSTY NAIL. DX: 1 CM SCALP LAC/ ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2010 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| 2 YOM HAD A BOARD WITH NAILS IN IT THROWN ACCIDENTALLY, BY HIS COUSIN HITTING HIS HEAD. SCALP ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2010 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 5MOM HIT BACK OF HEAD ON A CARPET TACK, SCALP LACERATION AND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2010 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Swings or swing sets |
| 5 Y/O RECEIVED PUNCTURE WOUND TO HEAD WHEN HIT HEAD ON NAIL WHILE SWINGING ON PLAYGROUND AT THE PARK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2010 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| 2 YOM BUMPED INTO DISPLAY HOOK AT ***. DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2010 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 22 MOF-LIGHT WEIGH BOARD ? FELL ON HEAD & SMALL PANELING NAIL NOTED IN POSTERIOR HEAD DX FB TO SCALP * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2010 | Age: 4 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 |
| 4YOM HIT HEAD ON EDGE OF 2X4 BOARD OR ON NAIL HEAD; SCALP ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2010 | Age: 21 months | 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, Decorative yard equipment |
| HEAD LAC-21MOM--FELL HIT NAIL IN RAILROAD TIE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2010 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 5 YR F HIT SCREW ON BOARD;DX LACERATED SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2010 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 3YOM; PT WAS PLAYING WITH SIBLING WHEN SIBLING HIT PT ON THE HEAD WITH A BOARD THAT HAD A NAIL IN IT. D: HEAD TRAUMA / HEMATOMA TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2010 | Age: 4 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, Ladders |
| 4YOM; PT FELL FROM LADDER ONTO CONCRETE FLOOR, FELL ONTO A SCREW - PUNC TURE WOUND TO RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD. D: NO DX; LWBS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/21/2010 | Age: 18 months | 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 |
| 18 MO M FELL AGAINST NAIL;DX LACERATED SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2010 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 7M/O WM ABRASED HEAD ON A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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