ABSTRACT
Sharp-force injuries are defined as injuries produced by an instrument with a thin edge or point. Examples of these instruments include a knife, razor, box cutter, scalpel, sharp-edged piece of metal, broken glass bottle, broken glass window, scissor, ice pick, fork, propeller, screw driver, saw blade, axe, machete, arrow, nail, pickaxe, spiked fence post, meat cleaver, and so on. This is in contrast to a blunt-force injury, where contact with the body is by a nonsharp object such as a baseball bat or the floor. Included in sharp-force injuries are stab and incised wounds.
