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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,512
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT SUS SPRIAN TO SHOULDER FROM CARRYING HEAVY NEWSPAPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT TRIED TO REMOVE EYELASH FROM EYE WITH TISSUE AND NOW HAS WORSENING P AIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| RT HAND CONTUSION-BECAME UPSET AND PUNCHED A STACK OF PAPERS INJURING R T HAND. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/24/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT SCRATCHED EYE WITH PAPER TOWEL. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT'S FRIEND ALSO DRANK SOME OF THE SMOOTHIE THAT HAD TISSUE FRAGMENTS I N IT AND WANTS TO GET CHECKED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| OPENING NEWSPAPER -PAPER CUT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| IS UNEMPLOYED ..WAS HOLDING PAPER WIND BLEW AND PAPER CUT EYE..CORNEAL ABRASION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paper products |
| ANKLE STRAIN: STEPPED ON NEWSPAPER AT GRANDMA'S, TWISTED LT ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| ON FRIDAY SHE SCRATCHED R EYE WITH A FOLDER AT SCHOOL. DX: CONTUSION EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paper products |
| BENT OVER TO PICK UP PAPER BACK POPPED. LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paper products |
| RASH OVER FACE, NECK AFTER WIPING FACE C PAPER TOWEL. " CONTACT DERMATITIS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paper products |
| 18 Y/O M INJURED R 5TH FINGER WHEN GOT PAPER CUT AT SCHOOL. DX; LAC R 5TH FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paper products |
| LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN REACHING FOR A NAPKIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paper products |
| LEFT EYE PAIN. PT STUCK A PIECE OF PAPER INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paper products |
| SLIPPED ON A PIECE OF PAPER TWISTED ANKLE...SPRAINED ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| PATIENT WAS CLEANING EAR WITH TOILET PAPER AND IT GOT STUCK IN EAR. DX : FOREIGN BODY TO RIGHT EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paper products, Stairs or steps |
| FOREHEAD 1.5CM LAC-@ HOME-SLIPPED ON NEWSPAPER ON STEPS-FELL-HIT WINDOW SILL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT WAS CLEANING LEFT EAR WITH A PIECE OF PAPER TOWELING AND A PIECE OF THE PAPER REMAINED IN EAR FOREIGN BODY EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| LEFT CORN ABR. PT SCRATCHED EYE WHEN READING A NEWSPAPER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2005 | 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: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paper products |
| PAPER CUT TO R EYE - HIT EYE WITH CORNER OF PIECE OF PAPER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT.STATES WAS AT A BAR & STUCK TOILET PAPER IN BIL EARS,NOW CAN'T GET I T OUT. DX; F.B. BIL EARS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT SCRATCHED EYE W/CORNER OF ENVELOPE. DX: R EYE PAPER CUT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paper products |
| 25 YOF GOT A PIECE OF PAPER IN EYE, NOW HAS EYE PAIN IN LEFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT SLIPPED ON PIECE OF PAPER INJURING ANKLE. DX: LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/26/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT SUSTAINED A PAPER CUT TO LEFT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT AT A LOCAL THEATRE, BENT DOWN AND MOTHER'S PROGRAM POKED PT IN THE R EYE, C/O TEARING AND PAIN DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| FELLS LIKE PAPER CAUGHT IN THROAT DX: ESOPHAGEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paper products |
| 21 YO MALE WENT TO PICK UP PIECE OF PAPER AND INJURED LOWER BACK LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paper products |
| ACUTE THORACIC SPRAIN: BRONCHITIS: BENT OVER TO PICK UP PAPERS SOMETHING PULLED IN BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT STUCK TISSUE PAPER IN EAR. DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL RIGHT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Paper products |
| SWALLOWED A PIECE OF CANDY WITH A PAPER WRAPPER DX. INGESTED FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paper products |
| SLIPPED ON NEWSPAPER, HAD RECENT BLOOD PATCH DX HEADACHE, POSSIBLE COMPLICATION RECENT BLOOD PATCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT HAS VAGINAL SPOTTING AND PT ONLY USES TOILET PAPER C/O ABD CRAMPS D X F B TO VAGINA ( *** IMBEDDED AGAINST CERVIX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT HAD PAPERS GO INTO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| FB L EAR, VIA EMS, PT INSERTED PAPER INTO HER EAR AT HOME, C/O SEVERE PAIN, LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/07/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| CUT LT EYE W/ PIECE OF PAPER TODAY. ACUTE LARGE CORNEAL AB LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT SWALLOWED A PAPER LOLLI POP STICK. DX FB INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT LIT A PIECE OF PAPER ON FIRE AT FRIEND'S & IT FLASHED DUE TO A GAS LEAK. FD NS. DX: 2.5% TBSA PART THICK BURN R ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| PT DX FOREIGN BODY TO LT EAR - DUE TO TISSUES IN EAR THIS AM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| FOREIGN BODY VAGINITIS. TISSUE PAPER IN VAGINA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paper products |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT HAD A CHINSESE PAPER YOYO INJURE EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paper products |
| F.B. VAGINAL AREA, PT STS INSERTED PAPER TISSUE INTO HER CANAL, C/O PAIN, DRYNESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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