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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 951
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flatware |
| 57YO FEMALE HIT EYE WITH FORK DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2009 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT WITH CORNEAL ABRASION, STRUCK SELF WITH A FORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2009 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flatware |
| 51YOM FEEDING GRANDDAUGHTER AND WAS ACCIDENTLY POKED IN THE EYE WITH A FORK ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2009 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT. STABBED THUMB W/ FORK BECAUSE DIZZY SAT DOWN, PASSED OUT-WHEN SHE S TOOD UP L ANKLE PAIN DX: L ANKLE FX, STAB WOUND L THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2009 | Age: 92 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| SM. PUNCT. WOUND R FOOT: STATES WAS @ HOME WHEN ACCID. DROPPED A FORK ONTO TOP OF R FOOT, SM. PUNCT. WOUND DORSUM R FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2009 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Flatware |
| 81YOM WAS SCOOPING FROZEN ICE CREAM IN HIS KITCHEN WITH A SPOON AND FEL T A POP IN RIGHT WRIST STRAINED WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2009 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Flatware |
| GRANDDAUGHTER ACCIDENTLY STABBED HIM WITH A FORK IN THE LEFT FOREARM. DX: STAB WOUND TO LEFT FOREARM* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flatware |
| FINGER LAC-CUT ON A FORK-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2009 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Flatware |
| DX BACKACHE/LUMBAR DIS DIS BY HX: P/W SUDDEN ONSET OF LBP EXACERBAT'N OF CHR PN, AFTER BEND'G OVER TO PICK UP A SPOON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2009 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT EATING CUT TONGUE WITH A FORK ON *** UNABLE TO STOP THE BLEEDING TON GUE LACERATION *** COAGULOPATHY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2009 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| STEPPED ON A FORK AT HOME, C/O FOOT PAIN. DX-PUNCTURE WOUND FOOT. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/03/2009 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Flatware, Rugs or carpets |
| PT STATES DROPPED FORK ON FLOOR THAT HAS MOLD IN CARPET, DID NOT CHANGE UTENSIL, USED FORK, DEVELOPED FACIAL SWELLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2009 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Flatware, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FELL PICKING UP SILVERWARE OFF OF FLOOR. DX: R FEMORAL NECK FX, PRIOR MASTECTOMY, MULT MEDICAL PROBLEMS. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/11/2009 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT WAS IMPACTED TRIED TO DISIMPACT SELF WITH A SPOON AND DEVELOPED A R ECTAL TEAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2009 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT STEPPED ON A FORK AT HOME TODAY AND INJURED FOOT DX// LEFT FOOT LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2009 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT FELL AT HOME WHILE CARRYING A FORK AND STABBED ARM WITH FORK DX// LEFT FOREARM PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2009 | Age: 52 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 |
| PT THINKS SHE MAY HAVE SWALLOWED A TINE FROM A PLASTIC FORK. FOREIGN BO DY SENSATION. D: SUSPECTED ESOPHAGEAL FOREIGN BODY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2009 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Flatware |
| PATIENT HIT BY SPOON AT HOME DX; AVULSION TO LT FOREARM WITH CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2009 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flatware |
| PT SUSTAINED WOUND INFECTION TO HAND AFTER SHE PUNCTURED HER HAND WITH A CLEAN FORK* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2009 | Age: 61 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 HAND WITH FORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2009 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Flatware |
| ON ***, S/P UNWITNESSED FALL, FOUND DOWN ON THE FLOOR BY HUSBAND WITH F ORK IN THE HAND, PUCTURED EYE>>INTRACRANIAL HEAMORRHAGE/GLOBE TRAU |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/19/2009 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flatware |
| LAC TO FACE WHEN STRUCK WITH A FORK AT NURSING HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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