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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,892
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches, Chemicals |
| 22YOM INJ.AT HOME WHEN CLEANING BATHROOM & MIXED BLEACH WITH OTHER CHEM ICAL & INHALED FUMES. DX; CHEMICAL INHALATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches, Ammonia, household |
| PT INHALED COMBINATION OF BLEACH AND AMMONIA, DX INHALATION OF CHEMICAL S |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/19/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches, General purpose household cleaners |
| ACCIDENTALLY DRANK A MIX OF *** BLEACH AND AN OTHER HOUSEHOLD CLEANER T HINKING IT WAS GRAPE *** DX- POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| 16 YOM CHEMICAL BURNS BIL EYES, PT SISTER WAS CARRYING OPEN BLEACH WHEN IT SPLASHED AND HIT PT IN EYES, FLUSHED 2 LITER WATER IN ER F/U OPTHOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2009 | Age: 24 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: Bleaches |
| ANOXIA- INHALED BLEACH FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2009 | Age: 18 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: Bleaches |
| INTOXICATION WITH ***.PT.REFERS WHILE CLEANING BEDROOM WITH ***,BEGAN S HORTNESS OF BREATH AND TACYCARDIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT WITH CONJUNCTIVITIS, GOT BLEACH IN EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| BLEACH IN EYE CONJUNCTIVITIS * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches, Bathtubs or showers |
| 21YOM CLEANING HIS BATHTUB WITH BLEACH AND INHALED THE FUMES DEVELOPED HIVES AND CHEST TIGHTNESS INHALATION INJURY |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 10/11/2009 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches |
| 25 YO UNEMPLOYED MALE HAS SWOLLEN WATERY EYES AFTER SMELLING BLEACH. LP TMS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/07/2009 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| BILATERAL CHEMICAL BURNS TO HANDS.PT STUCK BOTH HANDS ACCIDENTLY IN A S INK FULL OF BLEACH AND BURNED HANDS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2009 | Age: 18 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: Bleaches |
| PT INGESTED 10 CC OF BLEACH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| 21 YOF POURED BLEACH ON HANDS. DX-TINEA RASH ON HANDS, MILD CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bleaches, Electric lighting equipment |
| PT WITH HEADACHE FOR LAST 3 DAYS. HAS BEEN USING BLEACH IN SCHOOL X 3 D AYS. ALSO UNDER BRIGHT LIGHTS. DX:SINUSITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS-SPLASHED BLEACH IN EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2009 | Age: 19 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: Bleaches |
| PT WAS EXPOSED TO FUMES OF BLEACH AND IS HAVING AN ALLERGIC RX DX;* ALLERGIC RX TO BLEACH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches, Tableware and accessories |
| PT HAD HANDS IN BLEACH WHILE WASHING DISHES, NOTICED RASH, DERMATITIS T O HANDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2009 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Bleaches |
| BILATERAL CORNEAL ABRASIONS.PT SPLASHED BLEACH IN BOTH EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bleaches |
| STUNG BY A BEE YESTERDAY WITH LOCAL REACTION, HUSBAND'S AUNT PUT SOAKED COTTON WITH BLEACH ON LEG. DX-INSECT BITE, CHEMICAL BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches, Bottles or jars |
| PT STATES, OPENED BOTTLE OF BLEACH SPLASHED IN MOUTH & ON ARMS, CHEST DX;* CHEMICAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches |
| 21 YOM, BLEACH IN BOWL ON COUNTER , DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PATIENT D RANK IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bleaches, General purpose household cleaners |
| PT WAS CLEANING THE HOUSE USING *** AND BLEACH AND NOW C/O HEADACHE,DIZ ZY,NAUSEA,VOMIT X 3S.DX: ABDOMINAL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2009 | Age: 24 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: Bleaches |
| INHALED BLEACH FUMES WHILE CLEANING BATHROOM CHEMICAL INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT HAS BEEN CLEANING HOUSE W/ BLEACH NOW HER FINGERS ARE RED AND SWOLLEN. DX CHEMICAL REACTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT HAD BLEACH SPLASHED IN EYE. DX EYEBALL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2009 | Age: 17 years | 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: Bleaches, Tableware and accessories |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF *** WITH PHARYNGOESOPHAGITIS- CUP WAS SITTING I N FREEZER AND SHE THOUGHT IT WAS ICE H2O - DRANK SMALL SWALLOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2009 | Age: 25 years | 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: Bleaches |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY DRANK BLEACH |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/22/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY SPLASHED BLEACH IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT SPLASHED BLEACH IN EYE AT HOME TODAY DX// RIGHT EYE CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT CLEANING WITH BLEACH AND GOT SOME IN LEFT EYE CHEMICAL BURNS TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT WAS CLEANING THE HOUSE WITH *** BLEACH AND BECAME SOB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL EXPOSURE IN EYE-SPLASHED BLEACH IN EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PT SPLASHED BLEACH IN EYE DX MILD CONJUNCTIVITIS CHEMICAL * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Bleaches |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT HAD *** BLEACH SPLASH IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| PATIENT SPLASHED BLEACH IN EYE. DX; CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVIS TO RIGHT EY E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS - ALKALINE BURN TO BILATERAL EYES - BLEACH SPLASHED IN EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2009 | Age: 18 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: Bleaches |
| DOING LAUNDRY GOT SPLASHED IN BOTH EYES W/ BLEACH ABRASIONS CORNEA BILATERAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2009 | Age: 19 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: Bleaches, Toilet bowl products |
| 19YFO MIXED *** CLEANER AND BLEACH TOGETHER C/O SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND COUGH/POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| CHEM BURN EYES FROM BLEACH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Bleaches, Clothing |
| 23YOF WHILE WASHING CLOTHES AT HOME,SPLASHED BLEACH INTO EYES,FLUSHED EYES PRIOR TO COMING IN;CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Bleaches |
| DX CHEMICAL BRONCHITIS: TODAY W CLEAN'G HOUSE W BLEACH THEN GOT SOB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2009 | Age: 20 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches |
| DX PAIN IN OR AROUND EYE/BLEACH SPLASHED IN EYE/CHEM CONJ: BLEACH FELL OVER & LANDED ON HER. RINSED EYE FOR ABO 5MIN & 2ND X FOR COMPLE MIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2009 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches |
| SOB AFTER CLEANING W/BLEACH DX: DYSPNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches |
| 23 YOM ACCIDENTALLY DRANK BLEACH ACCIDENTAL *** INGESTION ACCIDENTAL *** INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2009 | Age: 21 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: Bleaches |
| H/O ASTHMA, REPORTS INHALED BLEACH WHILE CLEANING TODAY NOW WITH ASTHMA LIKE ATTACK>>INHALATION INJUREY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Bleaches, Buckets or pails |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS-POURING BLEACH INTO A BUCKET OF WATER WHEN IT S PLASHED IN EYES-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL ACID BURN SPLASHED BLEACH IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2009 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Bleaches, Metal containers |
| C/O THROAT BURNING SENSATION AFTER ACCIDENTALLY INGESTED SMALL AMOUNT O F BLEACH OUT OF SODA CAN>>ACCIDENTAL INGSESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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