Toddler falls onto knife blade

A 2-year-old was impaled by a knife in his own living room after he fell onto the blade while climbing on some furniture.

The victim, Eric Ruiz Carrillo, was airlifted from the scene on Swann Mill Road near Viola to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga by LifeForce helicopter. He was under treatment for an abdominal wound at press time but is expected to make a full recovery.

The accident happened Tuesday afternoon as the toddler was climbing on a wooden entertainment center in his family’s living room. Deputies who investigated the case say during the boy’s climb he reached up and knocked off a knife which had been sitting on a higher shelf on the entertainment center.

Moments after the blade fell to the ground, the child lost his balance and plummeted about two feet from his perch on the entertainment center, landing on top of the knife. The one and a half inch bladed chicken knife pierced the child’s abdomen on the left side.

Lawmen say the child’s injury was an accident and no charges are anticipated. The toddler is the son of Eric Carrillo and Angelina Ruiz.