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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,700
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/12/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT HAS PENCIL LEAD UNDER SECOND DIGIT OF HAND. D: FOREIGN BODY, FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT SAYS SHE ACCIDENTALLY PUNCTURED TIP OF THUMB W/LEAD OF A PENCIL, NOW W/DISCOLORATION AND NAIL FALLING OFF; NAIL DEFORMITY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| HIT SELF WITH A PENCIL. DX FINGER ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT INJURED THUMB WITH A PEN AT SCHOOL. DX: LEFT THUMB LACERATION., 2 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| FOREIGN BOBY TO FINGER 9 YO STUCK SPRING FROM PEN INTO FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PIECE OF PENCIL IN L THUMB DX; FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| HOLDING A PENCIL AND IT BROKE - PIECE GOT IN FINGER. DX FB FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT STABBED HIMSELF IN THUMB WITH PENCIL, PEICE OF LEAD IN NAILBED; FB IN THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| GOT PENCIL LEAD UNDER FINGERNAIL AT SCHOOL FB FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT HAS A PENCIL STUCK IN FINGER WHICH IS STILL IN PLACE WHEN ARRIVED TO HOSPITAL. DX; FINGER FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Nonelectric razors or shavers |
| PT STS WAS SHARPENING A PENCIL WITH RAZOR BLADE,LAC LT 3RD DIGIT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Beds or bedframes |
| 46YOM STAYING IN HOTEL,WAS STRUCK IN LT MIDDLE FINGER BY A BALL POINT PEN THAT WAS IN HIS BED;FINGER ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STABBED SELF WITH PENCIL LEAD IN FINGER DX: F.B. FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PTS FINGER GOT STUCK WITH A PENCIL DX FINGER PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PENCIL LEAD STUCK IN FIGNER DX: REMOVED FB R THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Cabinet or door hardware |
| THUMB PAIN-WHILE WRITING OR TURNING DOOR KNOBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT ACCIDENTALLY STABBED HER LEFT THUMB AT THE BASE OF THE NAIL WITH A MECHANICAL PENCIL. DX-PARONYCHIA, LEFT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT STUCK PENCIL LEAD IN FINGER. DX; FOREIGN BODY TO FINGER WI TH REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | 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: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| REACHED INTO POCKET AND STUCK IN FINGER WITH A PENCIL. DX. L FINGER FOR EIGN BODY.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PW FROM BALL POINT PEN TIP TO LT THUMB. PW LEFT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Book bags or back carriers |
| REACHED INTO BOOKBAG AND JABBED FINGER WITH A PENCIL. DX ABSCESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PUT HAND IN POCKET STABBED THUMB ON PENCIL,INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PTS MOM STATES CHILD ACCIDENTLY STUCK PENCIL IN FINGER DX RT FINGER PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STUCK (L) 4TH FINGER WITH A PENCIL AND LEAD TIP BROKE OFF IN FINGER D X- FINGER F/B |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PW TO FINGER FROM A PENCIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PLAYING WITH A PENCIL AT SCHOOL AND JAMMED IT UNDER NAIL. DX FINGER IN JURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 19 YO FEMALE WAS CLEANING UNDER FALSE NAIL WITH PEN AND PUNCTURED FINGE R - HEMATOMA FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| ACCIDENTLY STABBED LEFT THUMB WITH A BROKEN WOODEN PENCIL WHILE TRYING TO TAPE PENCIL BACK TOGETHER. AT SCHOOL. DX THUMB FB -REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2008 | Age: 33 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| DX FB UNDER FINGERNAIL L HAND: C/O LEAD FROM A MECH PENCIL WHICH ACC GOT STUCK UNDERNEATH NAIL OF LIF. AREA IS PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| GOT PENCIL LEAD UNDER THUMB NAIL AT SCHOOL . DX; REMOVAL FB THUMB NAI L. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS AT SCHOOL. WAS PICKING UP AN INK PEN WHEN IT FELL APART AND PIEC E OF SPRING FROM INSIDE PEN STUCK PT IN THE FINGER. DX. FB FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| ANOTHER STUDENT TRIED TO TAKE PENCIL AWAY WHEN IT REBOUNDED AND STABBED PT ON THUMB. PENCIL POINT IN THUMB. D: FOREIGN BODY, THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED FINGER WITH PENCIL;DX PUNCTURED FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2008 | Age: 14 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS WRITING WITH A PENCIL SHE TRIED TO PUSH BACK LEAD W/ HER THUMB NOW W/ F.B TO THUMB/BRUISE. DX FOREIGN BODY /BRUISED THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT W/PAIN & SWELLING TO FINGER X1.5 MO, STARTED AS LITTLE BUMP & NOW IN CREASED IN SIZE, PENCIL RUBS AREA WHEN WRITING;FINGER PAIN, WARTS VIRUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2008 | Age: 13 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: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| RUNNING WHILE HOLDING A PENCIL INTO HAND, RAN INTO ?SOMETHING&PENCIL TI P WENT INTO FINGER >> PW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2008 | 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: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Tie racks, belt racks or other clothes hangers |
| PT SUSTAINED A FOREIGN BODY UNDER FINGER NAIL FROM A PENCIL WHILE MAKIN G A BOW OUT OF A PLASTIC HANGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PENCIL LEAD STUCK IN FINGER FOREIGN BODY RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED WITH PENCIL DX: FB FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT FELL WHILE HOLDING PENCIL WHICH WENT INTO THUMB. DX: FB/PW R THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT POKED THUMB WITH A SHARP PENCIL. D: CONTUSION LEFT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| STABBED IN THUMB W/ A WOODEN PENCIL FOREIGN BODY LEFT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS AT SCHOOL, WAS STABBED BY A PENCIL CAUSING A PUNCTURE WOUND WITH INFECTION TO RT 4TH FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WITH PART OF A PENCIL TIP STUCK IN FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 8YOM WAS HOME,ACCIDENTLY STRUCK FINGER ON LEAD PENCIL; FINGER ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2008 | Age: 17 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: Pens and pencils, Knives |
| CLEANING OUT PEN & CUT FINGER WITH KNIFE, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| SOMEONE THREW A PEN AT PT. DX FINGER INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT STABBED SELF WITH PENCIL AT HOME TODAY DX// FB RIGHT RING FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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