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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,320
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| INJURED LOW BACK LIFTING 25 GALLON PROPANE TANK OUT OF BACK OF TRUCK AT HOME, HAS HERNIATED DISC AT L-4, L-5. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings, Gas or LP grills or stoves |
| PT SUSTAINED BURNS OF FACE FROM PROPANE TANK ON A GRILL AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/15/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| VALVE BROKE ON PROPANE TANK AND INJURED HANDS. DX: BURN INJURY BILATERAL HANDS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| 41YO WHITE MALE STS A PROPANE TANK FELL ON R FOOT LAST NIGHT DX FOOT CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT WITH BURNS TO FACE FROM AN EXPLODING PROPANE TANK AT A FOOTBALL GAME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| DX WRIST PAIN: ACUTE ON CHR R WRIST PAIN ON ULNAR SIDE, AFTER CARRY'G PROPANE TANK THIS TODAY W/O HIS WRIST SPLINT. S/P FOOSH 10 SEPT 08 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT SUFFERED PROPANE EXPLOSURE TO FACE AND HANDS - BURNS TO FACE AND HAN DS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT DROPPED A 65LB PROPANE TANK ON LT FOOT DX:FOOT CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT WAS HELPING FRIEND MOVE HEAVY PROPANE TANK. DX: THORACIC PX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT WAS AT HOME, DROPPED A PROPANE TANK CAUSING A CONTUSION TO RT FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| 28 YO DROP TANK FELL ON FOOT CRUSHING TO FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PRESENTS WITH LOWER LEG SWELLING, REDNESS&PAIN AS A RESULT MISFURTUNATE SEQUENCE OF INJ: SLIVER INTO, LEG, SUNBURN THEN PROPANE BURN>>CELLULI |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| AT HOME PROPANE TANK LEAKED HAVING NAUSEA AND VOMITING DX PROPANE GAS E XPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT PROPANE TANK FELL ON FOOT AT GAS STATION TODAY DX// RIGHT FOOT CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| RUSTY PROPANE TANK FELL ON LEG/ LAC RT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| AT 1730 & 1830 PT (W/MD) FELL X2 - HIT HEAD ON PROPANE TANK;C/O HEAD/NE CK PAIN RT LEG PAIN/LT FOREARM PAIN--FOREHEAD CONTUSION,CERVICAL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2008 | Age: 26 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: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT WAS LIGHTING PROPANE TANK IN CAMPER WHEN IT FLARED BACK. FD NS. DX: SF TO DEEP PT BURNS FACE/HEAD/BILAT FOREARMS. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/11/2008 | Age: 28 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: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| BURN TO FACE FROM PROPANE TANK, HAIR WAS ON FIRE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| 48 YO MALE HAD PROPANE TANK FALL ON TOE FRACTURE TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings, Gas or LP grills or stoves |
| PT LIFTED PROPANE TANK ONTO BARBEQUE 1 WK AGO. DX: THORACIC/LUMBAR COMPRESSION FX'S. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT REPLACED PROPANE TANK AND THEN LIT CIGARETTE WHEN PROPANE CAUGHT FIRE. NO FD. DX: FACIAL BURNS, R HAND BURNS. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| 32 YOM WAS MOVING A PROPANE TANK AND THE TANK SLIPPED AND PT C/O SHOULD ER PAIN AFTER CATCHING TANK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| CRUSH FOOT - 31 YO MALE PRESENTS FROM HOME WITH SWELLING ON INSTEP OF R IGHT FOOT - PROPANE TANK FELL ON FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT AT HOME AND HAD A PROLONED EXPOSURE TO A PROPANE GAS LEAK NAUSEA AND HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT AT HOME WITH HIS COUSIN AND HAD PROLINGED EXPOSURE TO PROPANE GAS LE AK NAUSEA AND VOMITING INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings, Clothes dryers |
| PT HOOKING HIS DRYER TO A PROPANE TANK WHILE INTOXICATED AND SMOKING A CIGARETTE BAC 191 EXPLOSION THERMAL BURNS TO FACE TRANSFERRED |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/04/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| DROPPED PROPANE TANK ON FOOT/ SUBUNGUAL HEMATOMA,CONTUSION LT GREAT TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT FELL ONTO A BUTANE TANK. DX: L 6TH RIB FX, CHEST WALL PX, ALCOHOL INTOX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2008 | Age: 28 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: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings, Gas or LP grills or stoves |
| PRESENT WITH SUDDEN ONSET OF LOW BACK PAIN WHILE ADJUSTING THE PROPANE TANK ONTO THE GRILL >> MS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| PT WITH WRIST PAIN X 1 WEEKS AFTER LIFTING PROPANE TANK. D: WRIST SPRAI N. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings |
| BURN TO LT ARM AND FACE WHILE CHANGING PROPANE TANK THAT BLEW/ THERMAL BURN RT ARM AND RT CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Propane, LP or butane gas tanks or fittings, Floors or flooring materials |
| KNEE INTERNAL DERANGEMENT-MOVING LP TANK-FELL ON FLOOR OF GARAGE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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