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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 443
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches |
| PT LIT A MATCH, SPARK FLEW INTO PT'S L EYE CAUSING BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches, Day wear |
| 5 YO MALE WAS PLAYING WITH MATCHES AND CAUGHT SHIRT ON FIRE SECOND DEGREE BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Matches |
| 4 DAYS AGO PT WAS LIGHTING MATCHES AND THINKS THAT A PIECE OF ONE MAY H AVE FALLEN INTO EYE. C/O EYE PAIN. D: TRAUMATIC IRITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Matches |
| PT USING A PAPER MATCH TO SCRATCH R EAR DROPPED MATCH IN EAR - FOREIGN BODY IN EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2007 | Age: 51 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: Matches |
| A MATCH BROKE OFF IN PTS EAR WHILE PT WAS TRYING TO SCRATCH EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2007 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Matches |
| PT DX EARACHE - PT STATES SHE WAS TRYING TO CLEAN HER EAR AND KITCHEN MATCHES STICK TO EAR LAST NIGHT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches |
| PT LIGHTING MATCH AND SPARK FLEW UP AND LANDED N R LOWER LID AND IN EYE . DX. R CORNEAL ULCER, CORNEAL INJ FROM EMBER OF MATCH (BURN). |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Matches |
| 19 YO HAD PIECE OF MATCH FLY INTO EYE CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2007 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Matches |
| PT DX RT EAR FOREIGN BODY - C/O A PIECE OF MATCH STICK IN EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2007 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches, Gasoline |
| ATTENDING BRUSH FIRE & LIT A MATCH & THE FIRE FLARED AS HE BENT DOWN, P T W/FLASH BURNS FACE/NECK/BILATERAL ARMS 2ND DEGREE FROM GASOLINE, FD? |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/05/2007 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Matches |
| PT DX LT EAR FOREIGN BODY - C/O " A MATCH IS STUCK IN MY LT EAR" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Matches |
| 14 YO MALE ACCIDENTALLY BURNED GARAGE DOWN WHEN PLAYING WITH MATCHES NOT STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2007 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 27 YO MALE HAD MATCHHEAD FLY INTO EYE WHILE LIGHTING CIGARETTE FIRST DEGREE BURN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2007 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches, Day wear |
| 79 YO MALE LIT MATCH TO LIGHT CIGAR AND CLOTHING CAUGHT ON FIREBURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2007 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Matches |
| ACC STRUCK ONTO EYE C A MATCH " EYE PAIN" |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/24/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Matches |
| FEELS LIKE SOMETHING IS IN EYE SINCE LIGHTING A MATCH. DX. L EYE FOREIG N BODY SENSATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Matches |
| PT WAS HIT IN EYE W/HOT MATCH. DX: CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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