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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 119
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/20/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT PUT PEN IN EAR TO SCRATCH IT AND PIECE OF PEN BROKE OFF IN EAR DX:RT EAR FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| LEFT EAR BLEEDING. PT STUCK A PEN IN HIS EAR TO SCRATCH IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 53 YO FEMALE HAS RIGHT EAR PAIN AFTER PUTTING PENCIL IN EAR OTITIS MEDIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT ATTEMPTED TO CLEAN OUT HER EAR WITH A PENCIL YESTERDAY, SINCE THEN THE EAR HAS BEEN BLEEDING. DX-LT EAR BLEEDING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS WRITING YEATERDAY AND HAD AN ITCH IN EAR USED PEN TO SCRATCH IT AND FEELS LIKENOT ALL OF THE PEN CAME OUT- POSSIBLE FB EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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