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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 605
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/25/2003 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flatware |
| RIGHT HAND LAC, PT WAS CUT WITH A FORK WHEN WRESTLING WITH SOMEONE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PW TO HAND WHEN JABBED BY FORK AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2003 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PUNCTURE WOUND - 79 YOF WAS EATING DINNER LAST NIGHT, REACHED FOR FORK, FORK STUCK INTO HER LEFT PALMAR SURFACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Flatware |
| PICKED UP HOT SPOON. DX- 2ND DEGREE BURN R HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Flatware |
| SPOON FELL INTO CAST ON HAND WHEN HE WAS SCRATCHING AN ITCH UNDER HIS C AST;HAD TO HAVE HOLE CUT INTO CAST TO REMOVE SPOON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| FORK POKED PT IN LEFT HAND. D: PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PATIENT "RAN INTO" A FORK HELD BY SISTER, HELD PRESSURE X30MIN ON HAND. DX. PUNCTURE WOUND/HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2003 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flatware |
| LAC TO HAND WITH A FORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT GRABBED A HOT SPOON AND BURNED RT HAND 2ND DEGREE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2003 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT IMPALED RIGHT HAND WITH A FORK AT HOME FOREIGN BODY HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2003 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTLY STRUCK IN THE HAND WITH A FORK. DX HAND PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flatware |
| USING A FORK AS A REPAIR TOOL HAND LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2003 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PATIENT PUTTING UP SILVERWARE. FORK FELL & PUNCTURED LEFT HAND. DX: PUNCTURE WOUND TO LEFT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT ACCIDENTLY PUNCTURED LT HAND WITH A FORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2003 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT WAS POKED IN THE HAND WITH A FORK SUS A PUNCTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2003 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT STATES SHE SCRATCHED HAND WITH A FORK A FEW DAYS AGO NOW HAS SEVERE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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