Accidents - Flatware - 26-50 years old - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,119
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Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Hand:	343	Internal:	241
Finger:	150	Eyeball:	104
Lower Arm:	79	Face:	79
Lower Trunk:	73	Mouth:	30
Wrist:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/28/2006	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flatware
PT ACCIDENTALLY HIT SELF IN FACE WITH A SPOON , DX: LACERATION TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2006	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Flatware
PT POKED HIMSELF IN THE LEFT LOWER ARM WITH A BAR B Q FORK SUSTAINED A PW TO ARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2006	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Flatware
PT SUSTAINED PUNCTURE WOUND TO LEFT HAND FROM A BROKEN METAL SPOON. CEL LULITIS NOW PRESENTING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2006	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Flatware
PT ACCIDENTALLY STABBED HER FINGER WITH A COOKING FORK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/10/2006	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Flatware
PT CLAIMS THAT HE GOT DRUNK AND ROLLED OVER ON A FORK THAT GOT INSERTED IN HIS RECTUM FB RECTUM
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/08/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flatware
PT HAS A LACERATED TONGUE THAT WAS CAUSED BY A SPOON
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/05/2006	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flatware
40 YOF PRESENTED WITH LACERATIONS TO LEFT WRIST DUE TO CUTTING WITH PLA STIC KNIFE AT ***. RETURNED TO SAME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2006	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Flatware
PICKED UP A HOT SPOON AND BURNED HAND ON IT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/02/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware
PT SWALLOWED PLASTIC SPOON DX// POSSIBLE FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2006	Age: 36 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: Puncture
Product: Flatware
PT SUSTAINED PUNCTURE WOUND TO FINGER FROM "PIZZA FORK"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2006	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware
48 YO MALE SWALLOWED PRONG OF METAL FORK F/B PHARYNX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2006	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Flatware
BURN HAND ON HOT SPOON HAND BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/16/2006	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flatware
3 HR HIT PT IN EYE WITH A FORK. DX. CORNEAL ABRA R EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2006	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Flatware
STABBED SELF W/ A FORK ACCIDENTLY LEFT INDEX FINGER PUNCTURE WOUND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2006	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Flatware, Foods
STUCK SELF WITH POINTED FORK WHILE MAKING A SALAD DX: PUNC TO HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2006	Age: 43 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: Laceration
Product: Flatware, Metal containers
PT OPEN A CAN AND COULD NOT GET LID OFF. USED FORK TO LIFT LID AND HAND SLIPPED. LACERATED THUMB ON LID. D: THUMB LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2006	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Flatware
FOREIGN BODY OF LEFT HAND FROM PATIENT INSERTING PRONG OF A FORK INTO HIS LEFT HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/2006	Age: 39 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flatware
PT WAS POKED IN EYE W/A SPOON. DX: CONJUNCTIVAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/13/2006	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Flatware, Foods
COOKING, PUT HOT FORK ON THE LIPS BURNING IT '' BURN"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2006	Age: 29 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flatware
ABRASION TO EYE WHEN A FORK FLEW UP AND STRUCK EYE AT RESTAURANT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/02/2006	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Flatware
PT STABBED PALM WITH KITCHEN FORK ONE WEEK AGO. SWELLING, REDNESS. D: CELLULITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/16/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware, Foods
EATING YOGURT, ACCIDENTLY SWALLOWED SPOON/ GASTRIC FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/2006	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware, Foods
PT EATING A HOT DOG AND FELT SCRATCH TO THROAT, NOTICED A PRONG MISSING FROM PLASTIC FORK DX: POSS SWALLOWED FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/19/2006	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: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Flatware
PT ATTEMPTED TO DISLODGE FOOD AND ENDED UP WITH FORK STUCK IN ESOPHAGUS . DX: FB
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 02/05/2006	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Flatware, Plastic containers
PUNCTURE WOUND - 45 YOF WAS USING A PLASTIC FORK TO OPEN UP A CD CASE A ND JABBED HER LEFT HAND WITH THE PLASTIC FORK BREAKING OFF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2006	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flatware
DX SCLERAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE: POKED SELF IN EYE WITH PLASTIC KNIFE AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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