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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 980
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| DX CORNEAL INJ: AWOKE W FB SENSAT'N TO 10:00 POSITION OF R EYE, STATES "FEELS LIKE SOMETHING IN THERE" ATTEMPTED SCATCH'G IT OFF...W TOOTHPICK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| USED TOOTH PICK AT RESTAURANT AND CAUSED GUMS TO BLEED CAUSING GINGIVAL BLEEDING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| STEPPED ON TOOTHPICK THIS MORNING WAS NOT WEARING SHOES PUNCTURE WOUND RIGHT FOURTH TOE FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL RIGHT FOURTH TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/06/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT DX ABCESS AND INFECTION OF RT THIGH - AFTER A TOOTHPICK PUNCTURE WENT INTO RT THIGH X5 DAYS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT STEPPED ON TOOTHPICK WHILE WALKING IN KITCHEN AT HOME, CELLULITIS TO FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks, Floors or flooring materials |
| 53 YO W/TOOTHPICK IN MOUTH FELL STRUCK MOUTH ON FLOOR PUNCTURE WOUND GUM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT HAD TOOTHPICK STUCK IN FOOT-FB LEFT FOOT REMOVED IN ED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT WAS CLEANING EAR WITH A TOOTHPICK & IT BROKE IN EAR DX: FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| A WEEK AGO WAS CHEWING ON A FLAT TOOTHPICK&ACCIDENTALLY SWOLLOWED A PIE CE OF IT, NOW WITH THROAT FOREIGN BODY SENSATION EVER SINCE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2008 | Age: 53 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: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT STEPPED ON TOOTHPICK-SINGLE DEEP PUNCTURE WOUND TO RIGHT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2008 | Age: 59 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: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| DX R FOOT PUNCTURE WD: STARTED AFTER ACC STEP'G ON TOOTHPICK LAST NOC W GO'G TO BATHROOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT WAS CHEWING ON A TOOTHPICK, DEVELOPED SWOLLEN TONGUE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/14/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT STEPPED ON A TOOTHPICK 3 DAYS AGO. DX: L FOOT CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT STEPPED ON A TOOTHPICK AND IT BROKE OFF IN RIGHT FOOT FOREIGN BOY FO OT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2008 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks, Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT HAS DEMENTIA, MAY HAVE FALLEN IN SHOWER, HAS A HX OF CLEANING EAR WITH TOOTHPICKS, HAS BLEEDING FROM EAR. DX-TRAUMA TO RIGHT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| FOREIGN BODY IN THROAT FROM SWALLOWING WOODEN TOOTH PICK. DX-ACUTE SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| 59 YO MALE HAS TOOTHPICK IN RIGHT FOOT CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT STATERS PUNCTURED LOWER LIP W/A TOOTHPICK. DX. PW LOWER LIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| C /O FOOT PAIN, STEPPED ON TOOTHPICK AT HOME. DX-FOREIGN BODY FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks, Foods |
| PT EATING CHEESEBURGER AND ESOPHAGUS (SWALLOWED) PART OF TOOTHPICK. ESOPHAGEAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| ACCIDENTALLY PUNCTURED WRIST W/ TOOTHPICK DX: FB WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT WAS WALKING IN HIS HOUSE AND STEPPED ONA TOOTH PICK IT BROKE OFF IN FOOT FB FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| SWALLOWED A TOOTHPICK. DX- FOREIGN BODY INGESTION # |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | 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: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT WAS CHEWING ON A TOOTHPICK LAST NIGHT JAMMED INTO HIS GUM BROKE OFF ALOT OF BLEEDING DENTAL INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PUNCTURE WOUND TO TOE TOOTHPICK STUCK IN TOE. FOREIGN BODY REMOVED FO RM TOE # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| SWALLOWED A TOOTHPICK AND X RAY SHOWS IN THROAT,NEEDS ENDOSCOPY |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/03/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toothpicks or hor d'oeuvres picks |
| PT STEPPED ON A TOOTHPICK. DX: CELLULITIS R FOOT W/RISK OF FB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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