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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,361
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 06/25/2010 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 18 Y/O M STEPPED ON NAIL LWOT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/13/2009 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| SUSTAINED A PUNCTURE WOUND ON A SCREW, ?TETANUS STATUS >>PW |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/29/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT WAS STRUCK BY NAIL JUST PTA - DX PUNCTURE WOUND.PT LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 12/03/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT C/O ACCIDENTLY SWALLOWED NAIL. DX FEARED COMPLAINT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2007 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 73 YO FEMALE TRIPPED ON NAIL AND FELL ON BOARDWALK MULTIPLE TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT PUNCTURED SKIN WITH A NAIL. WANTS A TETANUS SHOT. DX: SKIN ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2006 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Aerosol containers |
| PT POKED A SPRAY CAN WITH A NAIL CAUSING IT TO EXPLODE - MULTI MINOR BU RNS - FD NOT STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2006 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| STEP ON RUSTY NAIL DX: NORMAL EXAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT C/O POSS SWALLOWED SCREW. DX NO DX. MADE FEARED COMPLAINT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| STEPPED ON A NAIL DX: NO DX. OR INFO ON CHART PT. LEFT PRIOR TO BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/30/2005 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT MAY HAVE SWALLOWED A NAIL. DX: NO FB SWALLOWED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2005 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 61 YEAR OLD FEMALE TRIPPED ON A NAIL ON BOARDWALK MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2005 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT C/O NEEDS TETANUS SHOT. PT STEPPED ON RUSTY NAIL. DX LWBS/NOT STATED . |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/02/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT C/O SWALLOWED A NAIL. PT SWALLOWED A NAIL. DX PT LFT AMA. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 12/08/2004 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| STUCK WITH RUSTY NAIL. PUNCTURE WOUND. LEFT ER BEFORE SEEN. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/09/2004 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT STATED THAT SHE TOUCHED RUBER WASHER FOR SEVERAL HOUSR,C/O OF SOB,CH EST PAIN, TOOK EPIPNE, SUSTAINED" ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO LATEX'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2003 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 23MO OLD F SWALLOWED SCREW NORMAL EXAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT FELL ON NAILS WITH SMALL PUNCTURE WOUND OVER BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Containers |
| PT SPILLED PACKAGE OF 32 NAILS ONTO FLOOR AND ONE WAS MISSING. PT MAY HAVE INGESTED. DX: NORMAL EXAM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2002 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Footwear |
| *88 YOM SLIPPER GOT CAUGHT ON NAIL ON THE FLOOR CAUSING PT TO FALLDX: N ORMAL EXAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| SWALLOWED A SCREW DX: SWALLOWED FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT TOLD MOM SHE SWALLOWED NAIL. DX: WELL CHILD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2001 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2001 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2001 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2000 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2000 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Not recorded |
| Date: 09/25/2000 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2000 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2000 | 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: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2000 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Not recorded |
| Date: 01/26/2000 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/1999 | Age: 17 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/1999 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Wire |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/1999 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/1998 | 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: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/1998 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/1998 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/1997 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/1997 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| Disposition: Not recorded |
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