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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,258
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| CAUT FINGER ON CARDBOARD BOX LACERATION LEFT LONG FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/29/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products, Knives |
| FOUND WITH KNIFE TRYING TO CUT BOX OPEN;LAC FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/25/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT WAS CUTTING BOX AND CUT FINGER ON CARDBOARD. DX: R FOURTH FINGER LAC 1.5 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products, Plastic wrapping products |
| PT DROPPED PLASTIC WRAP CONTAINER AND CAUGHT IT WITH OPEN HAND SERATED EDGE OF BOX CUT FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2003 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products, Knives with replaceable blades |
| PT WAS CUTTING CARDBOARD WITH A UTILITY KNIFE AND LACERATED FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT CUT FINGER ON FOIL BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2003 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products, Knives |
| 64 YOM CUT FINGER ON KNIFE WHILE OPENING A BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2003 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| HURT THUMB PICKING UP BOXES DX LF THUMB SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| CUT FINGER ON AN ALUMINUM FOIL BOX DX: R THUMB LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2003 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT SUST LACERATION TO FINGER WHILE POEN A PIZZA BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT CUT FINGER WHEN WAS IN BOX CLEANING OUT UTILITY ROOM AND SOMETHING IN BOX CUT FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2003 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT CUT RT INDEX FINGER ON CARBOARD , LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| 41 YO M CUT FINGER ON ALUMINUM FOIL DISPENSER LAC FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| LT INDEX FINGER LAC-WHILE MOVING A CARDBOARD BARREL THAT HAD METAL STRAPS-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2003 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT CUT FINGER WITH A CARDBOARD BOX. DX FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT DROPPED HEAVY BOX ONTO HAND INJURING FINGER DX: CONTUSION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2003 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT DROPPED HEAVY BOX ONTO FINGER C/O SWELLING DX FX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2003 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| CARDBOARD BOX FELL ON HAND FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT SLIPPED AND FELL ON CARDBOARD DX: RT 3RD FINGER FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2003 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT CUT WEB SPACE BETWEEN FINGER 2 & 3 W/ SERATED EDGE OF ALUMINUM FOIL BOX. DX: 2CM FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| MOVING BOXES AND SOMEONE HIT BOX AGAINST RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER DX: CONTUSION TO FINGERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT DROPPED BOX ONTO FINGER C/O PAIN AND SOME SWELLING DX: CONTUSION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products, Knives with replaceable blades |
| PT CUT THUMB WITH *** KNIFE WORKING ON PROJECT IN SCHOOL CUTTING CARDBO ARD DX:LAC TO THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2003 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT CUT FINGER ON SHARP EDGE OF ALUMINUM FOIL DISPENSER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2003 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| *** WRAP BOX SERRATEDEDGER CUT FINGERTIP LEFT 3RD DIGIT LACERATION LEFT 3RD DIGIT LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2003 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| CAUGHT FINGER UNDER BOX HE WAS SITTING IN AND BEING PUSHED IN LIKE TOY CAR ABRASION LEFT 5TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2003 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products, Knives with replaceable blades |
| PT CUT FINGER WHILE CUTTING OPEN A BOX WITH A BOX CUTTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| PT'S MOTHER STATES CHILD CUT FINGER ON A CARDBOARD BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2003 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| CUT ON METAL CUTTER ON WAX PAPER BOXFINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2003 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products, Knives with replaceable blades |
| TRIED TO OPEN A CARDBOARD BOX WITH A BOX CUTTER. DX. LAC TO INDEX FINGE R. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2003 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| FINGER LAC-AT HOME-TRIPPED-FELL-CUT ON CARDBOARD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cardboard products |
| LACERATION TO FINGER FROM CARDBOARD BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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