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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 978
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/29/2003 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| PT GOT FISH HOOK IN ARM. DX: FB L ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2003 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fishing |
| UPPER ARM RED AND SWOLLEN, HX OF FISHHOOK IN THAT AREA 8-9 DAYS AGO/ CUTANEOUS ABSCESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing, Nonelectric blankets |
| 5 YOM GOT A FISH HOOK STUCK IN HIS ARM THE HOOK WAS IN A BLANKET HE WRA PPED UP IN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2003 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| PATIENT WAS FISHING AND THE FISH HOOK CAUGHT IN PATIENT'S UPPER ARM. DX-FOREIGN BODY UPPER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| PT GOT A FISH HOOK STUCK IN HIS LEFT UPPER ARM DX: FISH HOOK LEFT UPPER ARM--REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Fishing |
| 49 YOF HAD BEEN FISHING; THEREAFTER COMPLAINED OF DISCOMFORT IN LEFT UP PER ARM. STRAIN, LEFT UPPER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2003 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| ONSET AT 7:00 AM WITH FISHHOOK IN LT UPPER ARM. FOREIGN BODY IN LT UPPER ARM (FISHHOOK) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2003 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| PATIENT HAS FISHHOOK IN UPPER ARM. DX: FOREIGN BODY TO LEFT UPPER ARM WITH REMOVAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| PATIENT WAS FISHING WITH SIBLING WHO CASTED LINE AND CAUGHT FISH HOOK I N PATIENT'S ARM; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2003 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| A FISH HOOK BROKE OFF IN PATIENT'S ARM. DX-FOREIGN BODY UPPER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2003 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| A FISHHOOK GOT CAUGHT IN HER RIGHT UPPER ARM AT HOME. DX FOREIGN BODY RIGHT UPPER ARM, FISHHOOK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2003 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| FISHING *** RIVER WHEN HOOKS CAUGHT IN UPPER R ARMDX FISH HOOKS X 2 R UPPER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fishing |
| PT STANDING ON A DOCK FISHING WHEN HE FELL OFF SUSTAINED A LACERATION T O LEFT UPPER ARM FROM THE BARNACLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2003 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Fishing |
| FISHING ON RIVER, FELL DOWN BANK INJURING UPPER ARM. DX: FRACTURE HUME RUS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fishing |
| PT SUSTAINED A CONTUSION OF HIS UPPER ARM AS A RESULT OF FALLING 5 FEE T ONTO A BRIDGE SUPPORT WHILE FISHING AT THE RIVER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2003 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Fishing |
| 13 Y/O M C/O FISH HOOK IN RT BICEP. PT GOT FISHING HOOK STUCK IN ARM. D X PUNCT. WOUND TO RT BICEP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2003 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fishing |
| PT STATES HE GOT A FISH HOOK CAUGHT IN HIS UPPER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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