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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 625
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| SOME HEATED MICROWAVED MACARRONI SPLASHED ON PTS RIGHT ARM. D: 1ST & 2ND DEGREE BURNS HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2002 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PATIENT PULLED NOODLES WITH HOT WATER OUT OF MICROWAVE ONTO ARM AT HOME ; FOREARM BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2002 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| HOT GREEN BEANS SPILLED FROM MICROWAVE BURNING PATIENT ON ARM AT HOME; 2ND DEGREE FOREARM BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PT PUT GUMMY SUCKER IN MICROWAVE @ HOME AND BURNED TIP OF RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER. DX BURN TO 3RD FINGER RIGHT HAND- SUPERFICIAL 2ND DEGREE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2002 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PULLED TV DINNER FROM MICROWAVE DX. CHEST BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| MICROWAVED SOUP FELL ONTO CHILD'S KNEE. D: 1ST DEGREE BURN. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/12/2002 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| MOM REHEATING FORMULA IN MICROWAVE SPILLING ON PTRT THIGH, PARTIAL THIC KNESS BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PATIENT PULLED BOWL OF HOT NOODLES OR SOUP OR BOILING WATER OUT OF MICR OWAVE ONTO HER THIGH AT HOME; 2ND DEGREE LEG BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2002 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Microwave ovens, Counters or countertops |
| MICROWAVE FELL OFF COUNTER DX. CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PT OPENED THE MICROWAVE AND WEINERS / WATER EXPLODED ON PTS CHEST. D: 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURN TO CHEST - ACCIDENTAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PT PULLING ON A BAG OF POPCORN OUT OF MICROWAVE WITH BUTTER DRIPPING ON FOREHEAD, 2 DEGREE BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens, Hot water |
| BOILING WATER IN MICROWAVE DX. CHEST BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2002 | Age: 6 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| HEATING FORMULA FOR BABY IN MICROWAVE WHEN TAKING OUT IT BURNED THE CHI LDS FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2002 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Microwave ovens, Floors or flooring materials |
| CHILD RUNNING AND TRIPPED OVER MICROWAVE ON FLOOR. HIT FOREHEAD ON FLOO R DX: CONTUSION ON FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2002 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| CONTUSIONT WITH RAVOLI FALLING OUT OF MICROWAVE ONTO RT FOREARM, PARTI AL THICKNESS BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PT TOOK HOT NOODLES OUT OF A MICROWAVE OVEN AND SPILLED THEM ONTO LEFT LOWER LEG SCALD BURNS TO LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| BURN TO CHEST WHEN PULLED HOT SOUP OUT OF MICROWAVE AND SPILLED ON CHES T |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| ACCIDENTAL BURNS TO THE HEAD, FACE AND FOREARM- SUSTAINED WHEN SHE PULL ED OUT HOT NOODLE SOUP FROM THE MICROWAVE AND SOME SPILLED ON HER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| 4YOF-2ND DEGREE BURN RIGHT 3RD & 4TH FINGERS-OPENED MICROWAVE AT HOME T OUCHED HOT CHOCOLATE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2002 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| CUT EAR ON CORNER OF MICROWAVE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| MICROWAVE WENT ON FIRE IN DAY CARE CENTER. DXP ACUTE POSSIBLE MILD SMOK E INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PT CUT FINGER ON BROKE DOOR ON MICROWAVE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens, Hot water |
| BURNED UPPER LEG WHEN SPILLED HOT WATER FROM MICROWAVE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2002 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| FROZEN DINNER IN MICROWAVE FELL ON LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Microwave ovens, Tables |
| PATIENT RAN INTO MICROWAVE OR MICROWAVE STAND AT HOME; EYEBROW LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| CHEST BURN - PULLED HOT MILK OUT OF MICROWAVE OVEN AND SPILLED ONTO CHE ST AND BOTH FOREARMS AND ELBOWS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| TAKING HOT DOGS OUT OF THE MICROWAVE, DROPPED PAN, BURNED FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PT HELPED HIMSELF TO OODLES OF NOODLES FROM MOCROWAVE WITH LT HAND BURU NS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2002 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens, Hot water |
| +21MOM BURNED FACE LIPS AND CHIN WHILE DRINKING HOT WATER FROM CUP INMI CROWAVE DX: 1ST DEGREE BURNS TO LT FACE, LIPS, CHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2002 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| SHE PULLED HOT SPAGHETTI SAUCE FROM MICROWAVE & IT SPLASHED HER CHEST & HANDS. 1ST DEGREE BURN ON CHEST & HAND@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| BURNED FOREARM WHEN MICROWAVE DINNER WAS SPILLED WHEN TAKEN FROM M ICROVAVE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Microwave ovens, Tables |
| CUT CHIN AND CONTUSED FOOT WHEN MICROWAVE AND TABLE FELL ON HIM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| BURNED FOREARM ON SOUP SPILLED WHEN TAKEN OUT OF MICROWAVE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| RT FACIAL BURNS-GRANDMOTHER WAS TAKING OATMEAL FROM MICROWAVE-SHE TRIPPED OVER THE PT-DROPPED HOT OATMEAL WHICH SPLATTERED ON THE PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Microwave ovens |
| PT HIT HEAD ON THE CORNER OF A MICROWAVE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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