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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,169
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| LACERATION WRIST - 35 YOM WAS PUNCHING A FURNACE AT HIS HOME AND LACERA TED HIS LEFT WRIST ON A PIECE OF METAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/25/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| LIGHTING FURNACE,IT BLEW UP/ PARTIAL THICKNESS BURNS RT HAND AND FOREAR M |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2003 | Age: 45 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: Other furnaces |
| LEFT 1ST AND 2ND FINGER AND RIGHT 1ST, 2ND, 3RD FINGER BURNS. PT WAS PUTTING COVER BACK ON FURNACE AND BURNED FINGERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| DROPPED A FURNACE ON HIS RIGHT HAND AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE, PAIN AND SWELLING OF RIGHT 4TH AND 5TH FINGERS. DX FRACTURE RIGHT 5TH FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| SCALP LACERATION.PT HIT HEAD ON A FURNACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| BURN TO HAND FROM FURNACE WHEN AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PERSON CAME IN AFTER BEING ILL FOR 4 DAYS, IT WAS FOUND SHE HAD POSS CO POISONING FROM POSS BAD FURNACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| EXPOSED TO FUMES FROM FURNACE / SOB DX: DYSPNEA RESOLVED / POSSIBLE INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| DX:HAND AND FACE BURNS. LIGHTING PROPANE FURNACE IN TRAILER WHEN IT EXP LODED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT WAS LIFTING A HEAVY FURNACE AT BROTHER'S HOUSE WITH SUDDEN ONSET OF PAIN LEFT MID BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS CLEANING OUT A FURNACE AND SOMETHING FLEW IN PTS EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| BURN TO EYES WHEN FURNACE FLASHED IN FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2003 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT. STATES "THE FURNACE BACKED UP AND SMOKE CAME OUT. FIRE DEPT. CAME CHECKED HOUSE" DX: SMOKE INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2003 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT WAS AT HOME WITH A MALFUNCTIONING FURNACE CAUSING CARBON MONOXIDE PO SIONING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT WAS AT HOME WITH A MALFUNCTIONING FURNACE CAUSING CARBON MONOXIDE PO ISONING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2003 | Age: 43 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| FOREIGN BODY LT CORNEA WITH REMOVAL, L CORNEAL ABRASION, CLEANING FURNACE YESTERDAY, MAY HAVE GOTTEN DIRT IN HIS EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2003 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| AB TO LT LOWER LEG AT HOME FROM FURNACE COVER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| ARM PAIN AFTER PUTTING A FURNACE TOGETHER DX; RT ARM PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2003 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| FELL ONTO BUTT WHILE CARRYING 250LB IRON FURNACE. CT SACRUM & THORACIC & CERVICAL INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2003 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other furnaces, Pipes |
| PIPE FELL ON HEAD WHILE WORKING ON FURNACE MINOR HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2003 | 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: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT SUSTAINED THIGH LACERATION AFTER FALLING ON METAL PIECE OF FURNACE. D: THIGH LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| FB IN RT EYE AFTER WORKING ON FURNACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT BURNED FROM FIRE FLAME WHEN LIGHTING FURNACE AT HOME DX;2ND DEGREE BURN TO FOREARM/ELBOW...NO FD INVOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2003 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces, Filters |
| FINGER LAC-@ HOME-CUT WHILE PULLING FURNACE FILTER FROM FURNACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| DROPPED FURNACE ON FOOT-LACERATION TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2003 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| STRAINED BACK WHEN PULLING ON FURNACE MOTOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT HAD FURNACE BLOW UP EXPOSED TO SMOKE, UNKNOWN FIRE DEPT INVOLVEMENT, SMOKE INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| LT CORNEAL AB-CLEANING FURNACE & GOT DUST IN EYE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 30 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: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT STATES PUSHING FURNACE INTO ATTIC AND FURNACE SLIPPED CUTTING RT WRI ST DX: 1/2" LAC RT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT STATES HE LACERATED FOREARM ON PC OF METAL WHILE CLEANING FURNACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT INJURED LIFTING A FURNACE; BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces, Other manual workshop tools |
| EYEBROW LAC-CHANGING A FURNACE BELT-HIT SELF W/A PRY BAR-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2003 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT C/O HEADACE FROM FUMES OF FAULTY FURNACE DX:HEADACHE, POSSIBLE CARBONMONOXIDE EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT C/O HEADACHE AFTER BEING EXPOSED TO FUMES FROM FURNACE DX:HEADACHE, POSSIBLE CO EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT C/O SHORTNESS OF BREATH/HEADACHE FROM EXPOSURE OF FAULTY FURNACE AT HOME DX:S.O.B./HEADACHE, POSS CO EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT BURNED SELF TRYING TO LIGHT PILOT ON FURNACE, 2ND DEGREE BURN L PERI ORBITAL SECOND DEGREE BURN L THUMB HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| 36YM WITH A POSSIBLE FURNACE LEAK DX; CARBON MONOXIDE POISIONING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| PT COMPLAINT OF QUESTION SMOKE INHALATION EXPOSURE TO CARBON MONOXIDE F URNANCE WITH HOLES IN PIPE, ACUTE HEADACHE QUESTION STATUS POST CO EXPO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2003 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| CO EXPOSURE FROM FURNACE MALFUNCTION AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2003 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| EXPOSED TO CARBON MONOXIDE AND FUEL FUMES FROM FURNACE X 1 MONTH. C/O D IZZINESS. CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN <6. DX. CARBON MONOXIDE EXPOSURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| EXPOSED TO CARBON MONOXIDE FROM A FURNACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| DX RIGHT INDEX FINGER LACERATION (1.5 CM): CUT FINGER ON FURNACE DOOR AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces, Pipes |
| DIZINESS, HEADACHE. CARBON MONOXIDE LEVELS 900P/MILL DUE TO DISCONNECTE D PIPE BETWEEN CHIMNEY AND FURNACE. DX. NON TOXIC INHALATION INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces, Pipes |
| CARBON MONOXIDE LEVEL 900P/MILL IN HOUSE DUE TO DISCONNECTED PIPE BETWE EN CHIMNEY AND FURNACE. DX. INHALATION INJURY DUE TO CARBON MONOXIDE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces, Pipes |
| HEADACHE, NAUSEA/VOMITING DUE TO CARBON MONOXIDE LEVEL 900P/MILL IN HOU SE DUE TO DISCONNECTED PIPE BETWEEN CHIMNEY AND FURNACE. INHALATION INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| CO EXPOSURE.PTS FURNACE MESSED UP AND NOW PT HAS A HEADACHE.CO2 LEVEL W AS 15.4 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| WORKING ON FURNACE PAST 2 DAYS TOXIC EXPOSURE TO FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Other furnaces |
| CO POISONING-FROM FAULTY HOUSE FURNACE @ HOME-COHB WAS 5.8 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2003 | Age: 36 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: Other furnaces |
| 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO FACE,NECK AND CHEST.PT WAS LIGHTING A PILOT LIGHT ON FURNACE AND HAD A FLASH BACK AND BURNED FACE ECT.NO FIRE DEPT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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