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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,138
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| ALLERGIC REACTION/5YOF GOT OUT OF THE SHOWER AND NOTICED RASH ALL OVER BODY. WAS RECENTLY ON ***. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2009 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| 12 M/O/M FOUND FACE DOWN IN TUB AFTER MOM LEFT HIM WITH SISTER FOR A MINUTE DX: NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| POSSIBLE NEAR DROWNING IN THE TUB |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 12/01/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| SLID IN BATHTUB NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2009 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Pine oil cleaning and disinfectant preparations |
| 18MOF SLIPPED INTO THE TUB, WHERE A BASIN OF ***, & *** WAS , LANDED FA CE FIRST INTO BASIN- LIQUID IN NOSE. DX; CLEANER INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2009 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM GIVING HIM BATH, HE FELL FACE FIRST INTO WATER FOR SECONDS;DX SUBME RSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 3 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| 3 MO MALE GETTING A BATH - MOM TURNED AROUND FOR 1 SECOND - WHEN TURNED BACK, PT WAS UNDER WATER. DX NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 10/13/2009 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM WAS RUNNING A BATH FOR HIM, TOOK OTHER CHILD OUT OF BATHROOM, WHEN SHE RETURNED, PT WAS IN WATER, NOT BREATHING. DX; NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 09/01/2009 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT WAS LEFT UNATTENDED IN THE BATHTUB FOUND UNRESPONSIVE UNDER THE WATE R NEAR DROWNING BATHTUB INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 08/29/2009 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT'S MOTHER WAS BATHING HER SON WHEN SHE STEPPED AWAY FOR <1 MINUTE FINDING SON FLOATING FACE DOWN IN BATH TUB ,CPR GIVEN.DX:NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/26/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| NEAR DROWNING WHEN FATHER LEFT UNATTENDED IN BATHTUB;DX NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/21/2009 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Towels or cloths |
| 8 MONTH OLD LEFT FOR A VERY QUICK MOMENT IN TUB WHILE MOM GRABBED TOWEL DX: NEAR DROWNING/VOMITED 1X/MOM DID CPR BEFORE BABY CAME TO ER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/04/2009 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| SUBMERGED FOR 1 MINUTE IN BATHTUB WHEN MOM THROWING AWAY DIAPERS, ;DX N EAR DROWNING . MOM PUMPED ON HER CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2009 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| DAD ASLEEP AND CHILD FOUND FACE DOWN IN BATHTUB;+CPR;DX NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/23/2009 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| DROWNED IN BATHTUB; MOM FOUND FACE DOWN , UNK AMT OF TIME;DX DROWNING |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 07/19/2009 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT WAS LEFT PT IN BATHTUB UNATTENDED, BUT WITH IN HEARING RANGE, WENT BACK TO FIND CHILD FACE DOWN, LIPS BLUE, DX: NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/19/2009 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| SLIPPED IN BATHTUB;DX WATER SUBMERSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2009 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| NEWBORN APNEA-FOUND FACE DOWN IN WATER IN BATHTUB AFTER BEING LEFT UNAT TENDED FOR A FEW SECONDS-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/13/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT HAD BEEN PUT IN THE BATH DUE TO FEVER, WAS FOUND UNDER WATER, IS ALTERED & VERY SLEEPY. DX-SUBMERSION, FEBRILE SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/07/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Car seats |
| PATIENT FELL FROM CAR SEAT THAT PARENT PUT HIM IN WHILE HE WAS N BATH T UB, BROTHER PUSHED HIM, CHILD WAS FOUND FACE DOWN IN TUB, SUBMERSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/04/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT PLAYING OUTSIDE AT HOME, THEN GETTING BATH IN BATHTUB AND WENT INTO CONVULSIVE SEIZURE, ARMS FLEXED 2-3 M IN; SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2009 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT FOUND DOWN IN BATHTUB.MOTHER LEFT CHILD UNATTENDED FOR 2-5 MINS. .CPR DONE ON THE WAY TO ED.CPS CONTACTED. DX:UNCONSCIOUS,DROWNING,DEATH |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 06/21/2009 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Clothing |
| CHILD LEFT UNATTENDED IN BATHTUB W/ 2 YEAR OLD SIBLING FOR 30 SECONDS A S MOM LEFT ROOM TO GET CLOTHES. DX:NEAR DROWNING, PNEUMONIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2009 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| LEFT UNATTENDED IN BATHTUB;DX NEAR DROWNING CPR DONE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/30/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Chemicals |
| 5YO HISP MALE WAS IN SHOWER PLAYING WITH *** AT HOME-IT BROKEOPEN, DX P OSS *** CHEMICAL INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2009 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| ASPIRATED BATH WATER WHILE IN BATHTUB,FOUND FLOATING UPSIDE DOWN IN WATER.DX-NEAR DROWNING,TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER HOSPITAL |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/27/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| GRANDPARENT BATHING - STEPPED AWAY - FOUND CHILD FACE DOWN IN BATHTUB |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/18/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PTS 6YO SISTER RUNNING WATER FOR BATH. MOM IN OTHER ROOM. HEARD WATER S TOP. FOUND PT FACE DOWN IN BATHTUB. UNRESP. CPR. DX NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/08/2009 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| FOUND BY MOM, UNCONCSIOUS, IN THE BATHTUB, WHILE PT WAS TAKING A BATH WITH SIBLING- EMS CALLED, INTUBATED HER. DX: NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/06/2009 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT TAKING A BATH WITH SISTER FOUND BY FATHER UNDER THE WATER UNRESPONSI VE NEAR DROWNING INJURY TRANSFRRED |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/02/2009 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT FELL HEAD FIRST IN BATHTUB WHILE PLAYING W/BROTHER AND SWALLOWED SOM E WATER, NOW W/COUGH TODAY; COUGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| NEAR DROWING IN BATHTUB, R/O POSSIBLY LEFT IN TUB UNATTEND. ADMITTED WI TH ANOXIA AND SEIZURES |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/14/2009 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN THE BATHTUB FACE DOWN IN THE WATER NEAR DROWIN G TRANSFERRED SUBMERSION INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/22/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT LEFT IN BATHTUB W/3 YO SIBLING WHILE DAD LEFT TO ANSWER PHONE, FOUND PT "BELLY UP" IN WATER NOT BREATHING; NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/15/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT FELL IN BATH TUB AND SWALLOWED WATER. DX: SUBMERSION IN BATH WATER. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/04/2009 | Age: 5 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PT IN BATHTUB WITH 2 YO SIBLING, MOM LEFT TO CHECK ON CRYING 3 YO IN BE DROOM, FOUND PT SUBMERGED UNDER WATER ON BACK NOT BREATHNG; NEAR DROWNI |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 03/03/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| FOUND PT UNDERWATER IN BATHTUB.APPROX 10-15 SEC. WHILE MOM HAD WENT TO GET CLOTHES NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2009 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM WAS TAKING A BATH, HAD PT PLACED ON EDGE OF TUB, PT TURNED QUICKLY AND FELL INTO TUB, SUBMERGED 2-3 SECONDS, COUGHING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOM LEFT PT & TODDLER SIBLING IN BATHTUB BRIEFLY STEPPED OUT OF ROOM. F OUND PT FACE DOWN IN TUB, UNRESP. RESCUE BREATHS, NOW RESP. DX SUBMERS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/04/2009 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| MOTHER FELL ASLEEP, FOUND CHILD IN BATHTUB UNRESPONSIVE, PT ARRIVED VIA EMS TO HOSP, DECEACED |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/01/2009 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Doors |
| WHILE MOM TAKING SHOWER,CHILD UNLOCKED DOOR AND WENT OUTSIDE WITH ONE S HOE ON AND NO COAT--WANTS CHILD CHECKED NOW, NO INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| 2 YOM WAS UNATTENDED IN BATHTUB FOR A FEW SECONDS NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers |
| PATIENT BECAME UNRESPONSIVE WHILE IN BATHTUB AT HOME, STARRING AT CEILI NG, BODY LIMP, VOMITED AFTER; SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 01/14/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Bathtubs or showers, Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT FOUND UNRESPONSIVE FACE DOWN IN 6" WATER IN TUB, MOM WENT TO ANSWER PHONE DX: NEAR DROWNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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