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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,319
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 18 Y/O HAD BEEN HUFFING PAIN. DX-INHALATION PAINT FUMES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| LUMBAR STRAIN-SUS INJ TO BACK WHILE HE WAS PAINTING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | 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: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Stools |
| NS: PAINTING, SLIPPED OFF STOOL, CAUGHT BY SOMEBODY, MIDDLE OF BACK DOWN TO BUTTOCKS HURTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT WAS USING SEMI GLOSS INTERIOR LAXTEX PAINT. PRESENTED TO ED WITH RAS H TO FACE, NECK, AND BACK. UNKNOWN LOC DX. CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT C/O DIFFICULTY BREATHING TONIGHT AFTER DOING SOME PAINTING-ACUTE AS THMA EXACERBATION AFTER PAINTING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2008 | Age: 20 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Painting equipment, powered |
| 20 YO F CHEMICAL CONTACT TO EYES USING PAINT SRAYER WHICH EXPLODED PAIN ALL OVER PTS FACE PT HAD TO PRY EYLIDS OPEN* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT WITH H/O VOCAL CORD DYSFUNCTION, AT DOG TRAINING CLASS WHERE BU ILDING SMELLED OF SPRAY PAINT, HAD HARD COUGH/CHEST PAIN;VOCAL CORD DYS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| ELBOW SPRAIN-AFTER SPLATTER PAINTING W/ CHILD-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| HUSBAND STATES THERE WERE PAINT FUMES IN HOUSE. TOXIC FUME EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 23 YOM WAS PAINTING FOR THREE DAYS AND HAS CHEST WALL PAIN CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT C/O ASTHMA ATTACK AFTER PAINTING HER HOUSE DX ASTHMA EXACERBATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT STATES WAS PAINTING ALL DAY AND DEVELOPED WRIST PAIN DX: TENDONITIS RIGHT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Paintbrushes or rollers, manual |
| PAINTING HOUSE 2 DAYS AGO, HURT LOW BACK. DX LS STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| RT SHOUDLER STRAIN.PT WAS PAINTING AND ARM BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Ceilings and walls |
| 16YOM WAS SCRAPING PAINT OFF WALLS,PIECE FLEW INTO LEFT EYE; FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DX ASTHMA EXACERBATION: ONSET WHILE PAINTING IN ENCLOSED AREA W DOOR OPEN. C/O DIZZINESS FINGERS BEING NUMB/TINGLY. TIGHT COUGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT HAS BEEN HELPING MOM PAINT. DX: THORACIC/LUMBAR STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| BACK SUNBURN-EXPOSURE WHILE PAINTING A DECK-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT WAS PAINTING AND GOT PAINT INTO EYE AT HOME DX: CHEMICAL CONJUNCTVITIS LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 22 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| SUDDEN ONSET OF EYE FOREIGN BODY SENSATION WHILE PAINTING TODAY >>CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| C/O WORSENING LOWER BACK PAIN THAT STARTED WHILE PAINTING >> MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| FINGER LAC, PT INJURED FINGER WHEN PAINTING HIS HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| MAY HAVE GOTTEN PAINT CHIP IN EYE WHILE REMODELING DX CORNEAL ABRASION L EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT WAS EXPOSED TO PAINT FUMES, WENT HOME, WENT TO SLEEP, WOKE UP, DID NOT FEEL WELL, WENT TO E.R. DX-ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE, NON TOXIC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| PT PAINTING AT HOME AND FELL OFF CABINET L ANKLE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2008 | 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: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DX CHEMICAL EXPOSURE TO EYE: HAD PAINT FALL INOT EYE WHILE PAINT'G ROOM IRRIGATED EYE THOROUGHLY, HOWEVER, STILL HAD U/A, PAIN, BLURRED VISION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PAINT CHIP SLPLINTER UNDER FINGER NAIL. DX FB FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| ALLERGIC REACTION TO PAIN-DEVELOPED FACIAL RASH WHILE PAINTING-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PAINT CHIP EMBEDDED IN FINGER/FB FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| EYE PAIN AFTER PAINTING, DX; CONJUNCTIVITIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| SCALP LAC, PT FELL BACKWARDS WHEN PAINTING KITCHEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT HAS PX SINCE PAINTING WALL LAST PM. DX: R SHOULDER/CHEST WALL STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Thermal or sound insulation materials |
| PT W/ITCHING ALL OVER X2DAYS, EXPOSED TO INSULATION, DRYWALL DUST & NEW PAINT, NOW W/ABRASIONS FROM SCRATCHING; ALLERGIC RX, SKIN IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2008 | 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: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| STRAIN SHOULDER - 25 YO FEMALE PRESENTS WITH LEFT SHOULDER PAIN AND STI FFNESS - SHE ATTRIBUTES INJURY TO USING HER ARM FOR RECENT PAINTING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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