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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 754
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Water heaters |
| 23 Y/O M INJURED EYE BROWS WHEN LIGHTING GAS HOT WATER HEATER AT HOME. DX; THERMAL BURN TO FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2004 | 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: Water heaters |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT HAD SOMETHING FROM WATER HEATER GO INTO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Water heaters |
| SLIPPED HIT SHOULDER ON A HOT WATER HEATER IN KITCHEN LEFT SHOULDER CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Water heaters |
| PATIENT BUMPED HIS LOWER LEG AGAINST A HOT WATER HEATER AT HOME. DX-CELLULITIS LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Water heaters |
| HEAD CONT. PT HIT HEAD ON A WATER HEATER IN BASEMENT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2004 | Age: 23 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: Water heaters |
| PT REPORTEDLY EXPOSED TO CARBON MONOXIDE LAST NIGHT FROM GAS WATER HEAT ER IN APARTMENT UNDERNEATH HIS. D:CO POISONING, HEADACHE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2004 | Age: 16 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: Water heaters |
| PT EXPOSED TO GAS LEAK FROM WATER HEATER IN APARTMENT UNDERNEATH HERS. EXPOSED AT NIGHT. HEADACHE, NAUSEA, DIZZINESS. D:CO TOXICITY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Water heaters |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK LEFT HAND .PT HIT HAND ON A WIRE ON WATER HEATER AND W AS SHOCKED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2004 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Water heaters |
| WATER HEATER FELL ON FINGER DX FINGER CONTU |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Water heaters, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT CLEANING SOMETHING STICKING OFF FLOOR WITH ACETONE WHEN PILOT LIGHT FROM HOT WATER HEATER CAUSED FLASH FIRE. ?FDA. D:1/2 DEG. BURNS, FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Water heaters |
| ACUTE LT INDEX FINGER CONTUSION, LT HAND PAIN, SMASHED WHILE MOVING HOT WATER TANK JUST PTA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2004 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Water heaters |
| FX RT 5TH METACARPAL, PUNCHED A HOT WATER TANK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Water heaters |
| WATER HEATER FELL OVER, CUT HEAD DX CHI, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Water heaters |
| INJURED LOWER BACK YEST WHILE LIFTING A WATER HEATER AT HIS SISTER'S HO USE. DX. ACUTE, MYOFASCIAL STRIAN LUMBAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Water heaters |
| WRESTLING W/ FRIEND, LAC PALM LT HAND ON WATER HEATER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Water heaters, Gas furnaces |
| CAME HM FRM STORE SMELLED GAS WATER HTR PILOT LIGHT KEPT GOING OUT CAL LED GAS CO WHO FND BRKN GAS PIPE TO FURNACE D CO EXP HA NAUSEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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