Accidents - Plastic wrapping products - Year 2004

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,042
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	281
6-15 years old:	97
16-25 years old:	150
26-50 years old:	164
50+ years old:	349

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Finger:	335	Internal:	246
Face:	191	Hand:	69
Neck:	58	Head:	45
Eyeball:	45	Ear:	36
All Of Body:	6	Mouth:	6

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/27/2004	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
SWALLOWED PLASTIC WRAPPER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2004	Age: 77 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Floors or flooring materials
PT SLIPPED ON CELLOPHANE WRAP ON FLOOR. DX: SCALP CONT/ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2004	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PUT *** WRAP IN NOSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2004	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Desks, chests, bureaus or buffets
CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN DRAWER AND *** EDGE AT HOME. DX; LACERATION FINGE R.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2004	Age: 11 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PATIENT SWALLOWED AND CHOKED ON PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAP WHEN SHOPPING WIT H MOM; CHOKING, FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/09/2004	Age: 21 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT SWALLOWED A PIECE OF PLASTIC FROM A PIZZA WRAPPER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2004	Age: 6 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
6 MONTH OLD FEMALE WAS EATING COOKIES AND SWALLOWED PLASTIC WRAPPER F/B INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/09/2004	Age: 80 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT OUTSIDE OF A FURNITURE STORE STEPPING OFF A CURB ONTO ASPHALT GOT CA UGHT UP IN PLASTIC WRAPPING AND FELL STRUCK HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/08/2004	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT. SWALLOWED A CORNER OF A HOT SAUCE PACKET- C/O SORE THROAT DX: SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2004	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT PUT A PLASTIC WRAPPER IN EAR. DX: FB R EAR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2004	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic wrapping products
GIVEN PIECE OF GUM LOOKED LIKE "SALTWATER TAFFY" IN *** AT SCHOOL, 2 HR S LATER FELT DIZZY W/HEADACHE, LIGHTHEADED; UNKNOWN INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/29/2004	Age: 8 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT BEGAN CHOKING AT HOME ON A SMALL PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAPPER. COUGHED PLASTIC UP IN AMBULANCE. ASPIRATED OBJECT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2004	Age: 7 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PATIENT SWALLOWED PLASTIC CANDY WRAPPER, NOW GAGGING AND CHOKING WITH S UBSEQUENT FEEDING; FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2004	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PATIENT HAD PAIN IN EAR; PLASTIC WRAP IRRIGATED FROM EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/22/2004	Age: 21 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
FB RT EYE.PT HAD PLASTIC FROM PLATIC WRAP GO INTO EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/12/2004	Age: 10 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
MOTHER STATES CHILD WAS PLAING WITH *** WRAPPER , WHO STUCK WRAP IN NOS E. DX: FOREIGH BODY, VOMITING OUT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2004	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CHOKED AND SWALLOWED PLASTIC WRAPPER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2004	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT SCRATCHED EYE W/PLASTIC FLOWER WRAP AT STORE. DX: R CORNEAL ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2004	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Cardboard products
USING PLASTIC WRAP AT HOME WHEN LAC L 5TH FINGER ON METAL STRIP ON PLAS TIC WRAP BOX DX LAC R 5TH DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2004	Age: 57 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
FINGER LAC-CUT ON EDGE OF *** BOX-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2004	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Plastic wrapping products
1 DEGREE BURN L CHEEK & UPPER EYELID; STANDING NEAR "STEPDAD" WHEN HOME MADE BOMB OF ACETYLENE/O2 IN PLASTIC BAG WENT OFF (TYPE N) NO FD INFO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/25/2004	Age: 9 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CHILD CHOKING ON SMALL PIECE OF CLEAR PLASTIC FREEZER POP WRAPPER. MOM GAVE HEIMLICH & BLOWS TO BACK AND PT COUGED UP WRAPPER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/04/2004	Age: 16 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT WAS EATING A *** WITH PLASTIC WRAPPING THINKS SHE MAY HAVESWALLOWEDP IECE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2004	Age: 30 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
STATES SHE SWALLOWED A PIECE OF *** WRAPPER DX F.O.B. IN THROAT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2004	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PATIENT TRYING TO OPEN PLASTIC CANDY WRAPPER AT HOME, CUT LIP; LIP LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2004	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
52 YO FEMALE SWALLOWED A PLASTIC WRAPPER FROM FOOD NAUSEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/14/2004	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
FINGER LAC-CUT ON SERRATED EDGE OF PLASTIC WRAP BOX-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/09/2004	Age: 6 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
MOM REPORTS PT WAS PLAYING W/A HARD CELLOPHANE WRAPPER AND CHEWED A PIE CE OFF. DX. TRANSIENT FB IN THROAT (RESOLVED).
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/28/2004	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
EATING HONEYBUN AND PLASTIC WRAPPING STUCK IN THROAT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/20/2004	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Knives
PT STATES HE WAS CUTTING PLASTIC WRAP WITH A KNIFE AND LACERATED THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2004	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT SLIPPED ON SOME BUBBLE WRAP AT STORE AND FELL. D: NECK/BACK STRAINS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2004	Age: 8 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
8 M/O F CHOKED ON PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAP AT HOME. DX; CHOKING ON F.B.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/16/2004	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT CUT TIP OF MIDDLE FINGER WHILE CUTTING BUBBLEWRAP. DX: PT LWBS.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 02/06/2004	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT C/O FOREIGN BODY UP NOSE CLEAR PLASTIC WRAPPER FB RT NARES REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/01/2004	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PERSON SUFFERED LAC TO HAND FROM PLASTIC WRAP OFF A PIZZA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/28/2004	Age: 70 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CUT R INDEX FINGER ON METAL STRIP OF CLING WRAP. DX. LAC R INDEX FINGE R.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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