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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,333
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/04/2010 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 17YOM HX OF KELOID EAR WHERE EARS PREV PIERCED, SISTER HEATED SEWING NE EDLE TO REMOVE YESTERDAY, NOW W/ SWELLING; ABSCESS, HEMATOMA EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2010 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 11YOM HAD MULTIPLE PIMPLES ON EAR, HAD LESION & PARENTS POPPED WITH A P IN AT HOME, NOW WORSE SWELLING; EAR HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2010 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 14YOM PIERCED HIS OWN EARS, WITH A SEWING NEEDLE, 3 WEEKS AGO, NOW HAS DRAINAGE, & PAIN IN RT EAR. DX; LOCAL INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE TO PIERCI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2009 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| R POSTERIOR AURICULAR CUTANEOUS ABSCESS W/INCISION & DRAINAGE:LUMP BE- HIND EAR SEV.MONTHS,LAST NIGHT GETTING WORSE,TRIED POKING NEEDLES IN IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| C/O WROSENING EARLOBE SWELLING&REDNESS AFTER SLEF PIERCING EAR WITH STE RILE NEEDLE>>CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2009 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pins and needles, Jewelry |
| DX PUNCTURE WD, L EAR LOBE: SELF-PIERCED L EARLOBE LAST NOC W SEW'G NEEDLE, STERILIZED. MOM PUT EARRING IN EAR, ? NEED F TETANUS SHOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| STEPPED ON SEWING NEEDLE;DX FOREIGN BODY EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| POKED WITH SEWING NEEDLE BY BROTHER;DX PUNCTURED EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 10 YO MALE PUT A PIN IN EAR AT SCHOOL EAR PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles, Jewelry |
| SWELLING LEFT EAR FROM PIN, MOM STUCK ABSCESS,EARRING CAUSED SWELLING ABSCESS LT EAR * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT WAS SCRATCHING EAR WITH A SEWING NEEDLE AND INJ SELFDX: TYMPANIC MEM BRANE PERFORATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2007 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT SCRATCHED LEFT EAR WITH SEWING NEEDLE RESULTING IN FOREIGN BODY IN LEFT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles, Wooden matches |
| 17 YOF HAD RIGHT EAR PIERCED WITH A NEEDLE THAT WAS CLEANED WITH A BURN ING MATCH, NOW RIGHT EAR HAS THRU AND THRU PUS PIMPLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| STATES "SOMEONE" PUT A SEWING NEEDLE INTO HER EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT WITH CYST BEHIND EAR X 2 WEEKS. TRIED TO POKE IT WITH HEATED PIN ONE WEEK AGO. NOW WITH INCREASED PAIN.D : ABSCESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT DX FOREIGN BODY LT EAR - PT PUT A METAL PIN IN EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2006 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT GOT NEEDLE IN EAR DX: FOREIGN BODY IN EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| STUCK 2" COMMON PIN IN EAR LACERATION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE & EAR CANAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| EAR PAIN FROM RECENT PIERCING WITH NEEDLE DX CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2006 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| CYST ON EAR, TRIED TO LANCE WITH NEEDLE, NOW RED DX CELLULITIS EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| BOYFRIEND TRIED TO PIERCE EAR WITH NEEDLE 5 DAYS AGO, PAIN & DRAINAGE SINCE DX OITIS EXTERNA SECONDARY PIERCING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2006 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 6 YOF PUT THE PLASTIC PIECE OF A PUSH PIN IN RIGHT EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT STATES THAT MY DAUGHTER STICK A PIN IN MY EAR WHILE SITTING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2005 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| THINKS SHE HAS A STRAIGHT PIN IN HER EAR. DX-POSSIBLE FOREIGN BODY L EA R |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 22 YOM WAS INJURED WHEN A BUG GOT IN HIS EAR & HIS FRIENDS TRIED TO GET IT OUT WITH A NEEDLE DX PREFORATED TM/INCECT FOREIGHN BODY IN EAR # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pins and needles, Sewing basket articles |
| PT CUT L EAR ON SHEET METAL ON SAT., FRIEND SUTURED LAC W/ NEEDLE AND T HREAD DX: INFECTED LAC L PINNA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| FB R EAR, GMOTHER STS PT GOT PIN INSERTED BY COUSIN AT HOME, C/O PAIN, BLEEDING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT SUST INJURY TO EAR FROM PIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT HAD AN ABCESS ON LT EAR LOBE,TRIED TO OPEN IT C A PIN. ' LT EAR ABCESS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| RECENTLY TRIED TO OPEN PIMPLE ON FOREHEAD WITH A STERILE NEEDLE HAS EAR AND JAW PAIN RIGHT EAR SWELLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 41 YOM WAS CLEARING EAR WITH A STRAIGHT PIN AND PIN AT TO BE REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2004 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT PUT A PIN IN EAR, WAS REMOVE EARLIER THIS AM, CAME BACK NOW WITH FEV ER&EAR PAIN SUSTAINED" LT OTITIS EXTERNA/MEDIA" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2004 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 15 YO BF - WOUD L EAR - TRIED TO PIERCE HER OWN EAR WITH SEWING NEEDLW AFTER STERILIZING WITH FLAME OF FIRE - NOW AFRAID OF INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2003 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| SMALL HEAD OF A PIN STUCK IN PT'S LT. EAR DX: FOREIGN BODY IN EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2003 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 14 YOM S/O LEFT EAR SWELLING AND REDNESS AFTER PRIESING HIS EAR W/ A SE WING NEEDLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2003 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| PT DX TRAUMA TO LT EAR CANAL - S/P PLACING PIN IN LT EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2002 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| RT EAR ? FB-THOUGHT SHE LOST A STRAIGHT PIN IN HER EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2002 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| 86 YO F STUCK STRAIGHT PIN IN EAR ABRASION EAR CANAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2001 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2000 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2000 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| Disposition: Not recorded |
| Date: 08/07/2000 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2000 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2000 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pins and needles |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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