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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 277
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| WORKING W PAINT THINNER AT HOME AND BREATHED FUMES DEVELOPED HEADACHE DX HEADACHE TO INHALED FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 1ST,2ND DEGREE BURNS TO RT HAND.PT USED PAINT THINNER ON A FIRE AND IT EXPLODED.NOT FIRE DEPT.THERE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2008 | Age: 50 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY DRANK PAINT THINNER THINKING IT WAS WATER. DX: ACCIDENTAL MINERAL SPIRITS INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2008 | Age: 50 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT DX ACCIDENTAL POISONING - S/P PT C/O "I SWALLOWED PAINT THINNER" WHILE CLEANING FLOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2008 | Age: 26 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PAINT THINNER EXPOS/26YOM STS ACCIDENTALLY DRANK TINY AMOUNT OF PAINT THINNER.DID NOT SWALLOW.SPIT IT OUT.C/O BURNING MOUTH,TONGUE & NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Drinking glasses |
| PATIENT PICKED UP A GLASS, FILLED IT UP WITH BEER, DID NOT REALIZE IT HAD SOME PAINT THINNER IN IT, VOMITED 10 MIN. LATER. DX-CHEM. INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| REPORTS BEEN EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER @ THE NERUOSURGICAL OFFICE TODAY, NOW WITH PRURITIS& SHORTNESS OF BREATH >> ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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