Accidents - Plastic bags - Years 1997-2010 - All Of Body

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,564
See also: Lethal accidents, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1998:	18
Year 1999:	225
Year 2000:	35
Year 2001:	35
Year 2002:	15
Year 2004:	332
Year 2005:	271
Year 2007:	107
Year 2008:	94
Year 2009:	83
Year 2010:	344

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	348
6-15 years old:	132
16-25 years old:	241
26-50 years old:	623
50+ years old:	217

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 10/31/2010	Age: 2 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: Plastic bags, Tablet or capsule drugs
DX INGESTION: 2YOF ATTER INGESTION OF UNK AMOUNT OF PILLS F PLASTIC BAG. S PILLS IBUPROFEN 200MG WERE GRANDMA'S, MOM ? HOW MANY ORIG IN BAG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2010	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Electric Shock
Product: Plastic bags
64 Y/O F WAS SHOCKED ON THE HAND WHEN SHE PLACED PLASTIC BAGS ON THE X- RAY MACHINE AT THE AIRPORT. DIAGNOSED WITH ELECTRIC SHOCK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/18/2010	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
18YOM-COCAINE SUBSTANCE ABUSE-SWOLLOWED ***S OF COCAINE TO HIDE IT FROM POLICE WHEN HE WAS APPREHENDED BY THE POLICE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2010	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
17 YO MALE - SEVERAL DAYS AGO RUNNING FROM POLICE AND SWALLOWED 4 PLAST IC BAGS OF CRACK COCAINE. NO BM SINCE THEN. STOMACH HURTING. DX POIS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/03/2010	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
44 YO M SWALLOWED A PLASTIC BAG THAT LIKELY CONTAINED CRACK COCAINE OR METH. DX:CONCERN FOR POSSIBLE OVERDOSE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/22/2010	Age: 54 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: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
54 YO F HEAVY DRINKING, TAKING OUT BAG OF TRASH AT HOME, FELL IN DRIVEW AY. DX ETOH INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2010	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags, Aspirin substitutes
2 YOM WAS FOUND W/* OF * RAPID RELEASE PILLS 500 MG W/UNKN AMT MISS ING. DX: NONTOXIC INGESTION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2010	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: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags
2 YO M WITH A SUFFOCATION EPISODE WHEN HE WAS LEFT AT HOME WITH MOM'S B OYFRIEND, MOM RETURNED CHILD HAD PLASTIC BAG ON HEAD, ADMITTED
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/22/2010	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags
8 YOM-MOTHER STATES CHILD PUT PLASTIC BAG OVER HEAD & TIED IT-CHILD SAY S WANTS TO KILL SELF DX SUICIDE ATTEMPT/IDEATION *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2009	Age: 29 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
PT IS BEING SEEN FOR INGESTION OF LITTLE *** OF HEROIN - SMUGGLINGINTOC OUNTRY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/01/2009	Age: 17 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: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
FD BY MOM CHEWING ON A SMALL 2X2 PINK PLASTIC BAG, MOM NOT SURE OF DRUG CONTENTS, ACTING HERSELF>>R/O INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2009	Age: 57 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags, Mattresses
DX SMOKE INHALATION: DIZZINESS, WAS IN GARGAGE W DOOR CLOSED, FIRE STARTED W ASHES IN PLASTIC BAG NEAR MATTRESS; ATTEMP TO EXT FIRE W EXT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2009	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
CHEST PAIN-SWALLOWED *** OF $500 CRACK COCAINE WHEN PT WAS ARRESTED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/27/2009	Age: 2 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: Plastic bags
PT WAS IN CARSEAT IN BACK OF CAR. PARENTS LOOKED BACK AND PT SUCKING ON A PLASTIC BAG W/ A POSS ECSTASY PILL IN IT. NO SYMPTOMS. DX POSS INGEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/26/2009	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
CRACK COCAINE INGESTION-PT INGESTED 4 *** OF CRACK COCAINE WHEN ARRESTE D-IN THE STREET
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/29/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags, Tablet or capsule drugs
INGESTED AP. 6 * & 1 ;WERE IN A ** BAG @ HOME. DX: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION NON-TOXIC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/25/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags
PTS MOM STATES FOUND CHILD UNRESPONSIVE WITH A PLASTIC BAG OVER HEAD DX ANOXIA
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/16/2008	Age: 8 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags
GOT PLASTIC BAG OVER HEAD;DX ANOXIA, EXPIRED
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 03/29/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic bags
45 YO MALE SWALLOWED BAG OF HEROIN F/B
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/06/2008	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic bags
38 YO MALE SWALLOWED EIGHT BAGS OF HEROIN IN JAIL F/B STOMACH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2007	Age: 19 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags, Aspirin substitutes
PT WAS CHEWING ON A PLASTIC * WHICH CONTAINED 10 * TABLETS.DX: *** /NAPROXEN INGESTION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2007	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
LOST CONTROL & PLACED PLASTIC BAG OVER HEAD ATTEMPTING TO HURT SELF SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/05/2007	Age: 61 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags, Microwave ovens
SMOKE INHALATION - 61 YO FEMALE ARRIVES FROM HOME VIA AMBULANCE - WAS H EATING WET TOWEL IN PLASTIC BAG IN MICROWAVE - CAUSED PT TO INHALE SMOK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/16/2005	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
COCAINE OVERDOSE-SWALLOWED 9 ROCK OF COCAINE IN A PLASTIC BAG WHEN POLI CE ARRESTED HIM.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/15/2005	Age: 2 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: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags, Drugs or medications
DX: INGESTION OF UNKNOWN PINK PILLS FOUND IN PLASTIC *** ON FLOOR. DO N OT KNOW HOW MANY TAKEN; ADMITTED W/ CHARCOAL INDUCED
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/03/2005	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
17YOM ARRESTED/CHARGED FOR ROBBERY,THEN VOMITED CRACK COCAINE HE HID B Y SWALLOWING PLASTIC BAG TODAY,ASYMPTOMATIC NOW; INTENTIONAL INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2005	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
14 YOM APPEARS DISORIENTED , MOTHER FOUND SEEDLINGS IN ***, STATES THEY MAY BE "GENSON WEEDS". GRABBING AT THINGS IN AIR. OVERDOSE.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/20/2005	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
WAS FOUND IN ALLEY BEHIND A POOL HALL-NOT BREATHING. FOUND 2 PLASTIC BAGS FULL OF BROWN LEAFY SUBSTANCES IN AIRWAY. CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 07/06/2005	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
PT SWALLOWED PLASTIC BAGS OF COCAINE SO HE WOULD NOT GET CAUGHT WITH IT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/14/2005	Age: 19 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: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
SWALLOW 2 GM * & * TOXICITY METHAMPHETAMINE TOXICITY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/28/2004	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
ALLEGEDLY ATE BAGS OF COCAINE WHILE IN POLICE CUSTODY. ACUTE ALLEGED IN GESTION OF COCAINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/17/2004	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
SWALLOWED 3X3 *** BACK W/METHAMPHETAMINES IN IT DX METH INGESTION DX METH INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/07/2004	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
PARENTS SAW TRACES OF RAT POISON AROUND PT'S MOUTH & PT. WAS HOLDING THE PLASTIC BAG WITH PELLETS IN IT. DX: SUSPECTED RAT POISON INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/14/2004	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
10 YOF TRIED TOO WRAP PLATIC BAGS AROUND HER HEAD IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 09/01/2004	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
DRUG INGESTION-PT INGESTED 2G OF CRACK COCAINE WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BA G. TRIED TO HIDE IT FROM POLICE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/30/2004	Age: 20 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
PATIENT WAS RUNNING FROM THE POLICE, SWALLOWED A BAG OF DILAUDID TO KEEP FROM BEING CAUGHT WITH IT. DX-DILAUDID SWALLOWED.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/28/2004	Age: 12 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags, Other drugs or medications
INGESTED COCAINE FROM PLASTIC BAG FOUND IN APT COMPLEX YARD
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 05/01/2004	Age: 4 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: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags
BABY FOUND BY FAMILY WITH PLASTIC BAG WRAPPED AROUND HEAD. NO OTHER DET AILS NOTED. D: CARDIA ARREST S/P ASPHYXIATION. DIED.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 04/09/2004	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
PT W/ FRIEND, PULLED OVER BY POLICE-TOLD TO EAT PLASTIC BAG OF WHITE PO WDER. ACUTE COCAINE INGESTION & CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/26/2002	Age: 21 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: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
INGESTED 3 SEALED BAGS OF COCAINE TO AVOID DETECTION'ADMIT TO OBSERVE
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 11/01/2001	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2001	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2001	Age: 21 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2001	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/20/2000	Age: 41 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: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/12/2000	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/04/1999	Age: 4 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags, Beds
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 09/11/1999	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/21/1999	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/11/1999	Age: 6 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: Anoxia
Product: Plastic bags, Bunk beds
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/15/1999	Age: 38 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: Other
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/07/1998	Age: 8 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

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