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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 684
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| 35 YOM CONTUSION TO RIGHT KNEE - WHILE KNOCKING RUSTY NAILS FROM FIREWOOD, MISSED THE WOOD, HITTING HIS KNEE WITH HAMMER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2010 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 34 Y/O MALE STATES KNELT DOWN IN HIS ATTIC A FEW DAYS AGO ON A TACK NOW HAS FEVER DX: CELLULITIS LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/25/2010 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Fences or fence posts |
| CLIMBING OVER A FENCE AND A NAIL STUCK INTO LEFT KNEE. PUNCTURE WOUND K NEE, LEFT. 33 YOF* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2010 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 44 Y/O/ SHOT NAIL IN KNEE WITH NAIL GUN AT HOME TODAY DX/ FB RT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2010 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 28 YO M KNEELED ON NAIL GUN AND NAIL LODGED IN KNEE FOREIGN BODY KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/30/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 48YOF CUT KNEE ON A RUSTY NAIL THAT WAS STICKING OUT OF SOMETHING. DX. COMPLICATED KNEE LACERATION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 48 YOM PW TO KNEE FROM A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2010 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 38YOF HAS SCREW TO KNEE FROM SURGERY, BENT DOWN & SCREW POPPED THOUGH SKIN ON KNEE DX;* (R) KNEE ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2010 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 49 YO M SHOT NAIL INTO KNEE WITH NAIL GUN ACCIDENTALLY. DX FB KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/20/2010 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 28 YOF, FELL ON NAIL, PUNCTURE KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2010 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 30 YOM HIT KNEE ON BOARD W/NAILS. DX: PW L KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2010 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| 33YOM PUTTING AN ENTERTAINMENT CENTER TOGETHER AT HOME AND KNELT ONTO A TACK PW KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2010 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 38 YOF INJURED KNEE FROM CUTTING ON RUSTY NAIL. DX-RIGHT KNEE CONTUSION RIGHT LOWER EXTREMITY ABRASSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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