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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 474
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| CUT HEAD WITH FLASHLIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| 4 YO M DROPPED A FLASH LIGHT ON TOE LAC TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| CUT FINGER ON A FLASHLIGHT DX: R INDEX FINGER LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2003 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| CHI WHEN HIT WITH FLASHLIGHT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| 03YOM RUNNING PLAYING FLASHLIGHT TAG IN YARD FELL HIT CHIN DX/LAC CHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| CONTUSED TOE WHEN DROPPED FLASHLIGHT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| PT HAD A METAL LANTERN FALL ONTO HEAD. DX HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| PT SEEN FOR CHI AFTER HIS TWIN BROTHER HIT HIM IN THE HEAD W/ A FLASHLI GHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| PT WAS PLAYING WITH A LARGE FLASHLIGHT WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY HIT HIMSELF IN THE EYEBROW AREA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, Batteries |
| PT PUT FLASHLIGHT IN MOUTH AND PUT TONGUE ON BATTERY. DX: CHEMICAL BURN TONGUE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2003 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| PT WAS PLAYING WITH A FLASHLIGHT AND CUT LEFT HAND WITH A METAL PIECE WHEN PT TOOK IT APART. D: LACERATION RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| CHILD SWALLOWED PIECE OF FLASHLIGHT LIGHT BULB THAT BROKE. GLASS IN GI TRACT. D: SWALLOWED FLASHLIGHT GLASS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| CONTUSED TOES WHEN DROPPED HEAVY FLASHLIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2003 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| FLASHLIGHT FELL ON HEAD. LAC ON FOREHEAD. LWBS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/26/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| 05YOF SWALLOWED BATTERY OPERATED SMALL LIGHT AT HOME DX/SWALLWOED FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2003 | Age: 5 months | 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: Other |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| PATIENT HIT ON HEAD WITH FLASHLIGHT BY 2 YR OLD 3 DAYS AGO, HAVING HEAD TWITCHING; POSSIBLE SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2003 | Age: 3 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns |
| HIT IN HEAD WITH FLASHLIGHT BY BROTHER;CLOSED HEAD INJ NOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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