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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 304
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/10/2004 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fuel-burning lighting equipment |
| FACIAL BURN.PT WAS USING A TORCH AND BURNED FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fuel-burning lighting equipment |
| PT BURNED LEFT ARM UPPER ON CITRONELLA TORCH BURN LEFT WUPPER ARM SECON D DEGREE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2004 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fuel-burning lighting equipment |
| PT. BURNED HAND WITH PROPANE TORCH- THE TORCH LEAKED AT THE HANDLE, BURNING PT'S THUMB. DX: FLAME BURN TO LT THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2004 | 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: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fuel-burning lighting equipment |
| PT SUSTAINED A BURN OF HIS LOWER LEG FROM A TIKI LAMP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2004 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fuel-burning lighting equipment, Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT C/O PROPANE GAS IN BOTH EYES WAS FILLING TANKLS C/O FB IN BILATERAL EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2004 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fuel-burning lighting equipment |
| 22 YOM USING A FLAME TORCH, ACCIDENTALLY BURNED RT FOOT-DX PARTIAL THICKNESS 2ND DEGREE BURN RT FOOT- NO FD INVOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2004 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fuel-burning lighting equipment, Day wear |
| PT PUTTING FUEL IN KEROSINE LAMP SPILLED SOME ON PANT LEG WHEN LIT THE LAMP HIS PANTS IGNITED TOO 2ND DEGREE BURNS RT LEG NO FIRE DEPT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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