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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 432
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/08/2003 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WHEN HE DROPPED HIS CIGARETTE. HE REACH D OWN TO GET IT AND RAN OFF THE ROAD. DX . CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/22/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Floors or flooring materials |
| STATES WENT OUTSIDE TO SMOKE, BECAME DIZZY AND NAUSEATED, RETURNED TO D ORM, AWOKE ON FLOOR AND WAS SWEATING. C/O PAIN TO BACK OF HEAD, SYNCOP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| MVC - RESTRAINED FRONT SEAT PASSENGER - HEMATOMA TO HEAD - SWALLOWED SKOAL DX - CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT TWISTED ANKLE AND FELL FORWARD HITTING HEAD ON ROCK. DID NOT STOP FA LL SECONDARY TO CIGARETTE IN HAND. D: CLOSED HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT HAS A TERRIBLE HEADACHE AND ADMITS TO SMOKING CIGARETTES AND DRINKING. DX PT LEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT, ETOH, HEADACHE. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/25/2003 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| MINOR HEAD INJ/86YOM WAS DRIVING/BELTED & BENT DOWN AND HIT TELEPHONE P OLE WITH PICK-UP AT 35MPH. WAS SMOKING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2003 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| HEAD LAC-TRIPPED & FELL WHILE LIGHTING HER CIGARETTE-HIT HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2003 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT ACCIDENTLY LIT HAIR ON FIRE WITH A LIT CIGARETTE SUSTAINED THERMAL B URNS TO SCALP- NOT MENTIONED IF FD ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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