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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 115
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/11/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Food skewers |
| PUNCTURE TONGUE, PT EATING A KEBOB & SUST INJURY W/THE STICK AT HOME, C/O BLEEDING, PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Food skewers |
| TOUCHED FACE WITH SKEWER DX. FACIAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2005 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Food skewers |
| PATIENT WAS EATING CHICKEN OFF A SKEWER, NOW FEELS LIKE THERE IS A SPLINTER STUCK IN HIS THROAT. DX - FOREIGN BODY SENSATION IN PHARYNX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2005 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Food skewers |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTLY STABBED IN THE HEAD WITH A SKEWER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2005 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Food skewers |
| DX: L EAR CANAL ABRASION WHEN USED A COCKTAIL SKEWER AS A SWORD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2005 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Food skewers |
| PATIENT STEPPED ON WOODEN SKEWER USED FOR COOKING CHICKEN AT HOME 4 DAY S AGO, PAIN X2 DAYS, NAUSEA,FEVER; FOOT ABSCESS/CELLULITIS AFTER LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2005 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Food skewers, Beds or bedframes |
| SOFT PALATE PUNCTURE, HAD WOODEN FOOD SKEWER IN MOUTH WHILE LAYING ON B ED, ROLLED OVER AND SKEWER HIT BED AND PUNCTURED SOFT PALATE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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