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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 712
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT DX CLOSED FX OF DISTAL END OF RADIUS (WRIST) - S/P WHILE CROSSING THE STREET,PT TRIPPED AND FELL ON A NAIL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 34 Y/O HAD BEEN PULLING NAILS FROM A BOARD, HAD ONSET WRIST PAIN. DX-WRIST INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| GOT STUCK WITH POINT OF SCREW WORKING IN YARD DX: PUNC TO WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| SCRAPED WRIST ON INTERIOR FINISH NAIL PW LEFT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT CUT WRIST ON NAIL 4 DAYS AGO. DX: LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WHILE PULLING OUT NAILS, PT INJURED WRIST, PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| TRIED TO CATCH A BOARD W/ A NAIL IN IT AND THE NAIL PUNCTURED (R) WRIST ----PUNCTURE (R) WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT HIT LT WRIST ON A RUSTY NAIL AT HOME YESTERDAY SUSTAINING A WRIST ABRASION & CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT DROVE NAIL THROUGH LFT WRIST DX PUNCTURE WOUND LFT WRIST*** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| DRYWALL SCREW PUNCTURED R WRIST. DX R WRIST PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| PT PRESENTED TO ED WITH LARGE NAIL EMBEDDED THROUGH WRIST OCCURED WHILE USING NAIL GUN AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 42YOM A WEEK AGO AT HOME LACERATED LEFT WRIST ON A NAIL; WRIST INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT SUSTAINED PUNCTURE WOUND TO RT WRIST W/A RUSTY NAIL AT HOME 3 DAYS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| IMPALED WRIST ON A NAIL STICKING OUT FROM A BOARD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Not recorded | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT HAD PUNCTURE WOUND ON R WRIST FROM NAIL A FEW DAYS AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| INJURED WRIST PULLING NAIL OUT OF WALL WITH CLAW HAMMER RT WRIST FX * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Doors |
| MRSA W/CELLULITIS: HIT ARM OFF DOOR WITH RUSTY NAIL, PUNCTURE WOUND WRIST 6-7 DAYS AGO, ENTIRE HAND + REDNESS WITH SWELLING,ABSCESS R WRIST |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
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