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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 415
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/09/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches |
| PT BURNED INDEX FINGER W/MATCHES. DX: PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN R INDEX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches |
| BURN FINGER ON A HOT MATCH LEFT 1ST & 2ND FINGERS BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2006 | Age: 26 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 |
| GOT A MATCH STICK STUCK IN EAR DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2006 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT SUSTAINED BURN TO FINGER FROMAA MATCH WHILE TRYING TO LIGHT A CIGARETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2006 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Matches |
| PT STRUCK A MATCH AND THE FIRE WENT INTO HER EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2006 | Age: 37 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 |
| CLEANING EAR WITH THE EDGE OF A MATCHSTICK AND IT BROKE IN EAR. DX. MIN OR IRRITATION OF EAR CANAL SECONDARY TO FOREIGN BODY INSERTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches, Chemicals |
| PATIENT WAS MIXING SOME EXPLOSIVES AND LIT MATCH TO SMOKE BURNING HAND. DX: BURN TO HAND. FD NOT CALLED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Matches |
| FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EAR-SCATCHING EAR WITH MATCH-PIECE BROKE OFF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2006 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches |
| PATIENT LIT A MATCH & FELT IT BURN HIS EYE, FEEL LIKE THERE IS SOME- THING IN HIS EYE. DX - FLASH BURN TO CORNEA, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Matches |
| 43 YO MALE USED MATCH STICK AND CLEANED EAR OTITIS EXTERNA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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