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Accidents - Chemicals - 26-50 years old - Year 2002 - All Of Body

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,719
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Date: 12/22/2002Age: 39 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
ALLERGIC REACTION TO CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/21/2002Age: 43 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
INHALED UNKNOWN CHEMICAL FUMES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/18/2002Age: 43 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Artificial Christmas trees
43 YO F H/A DRAINAGE, COUGHING AFTER USING ARTIFICIAL SNOW AT CHRISTMAS TREE. DX CHEMICAL INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/18/2002Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Artificial Christmas trees
50 YO M WAS SPRAYING ARTIFICIAL SNOW ON CHRISTMAS TREE, SOB. DX CHEMICA L INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/13/2002Age: 32 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
INHALED UNKNOWN TYPE OF CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/11/2002Age: 45 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
RED FACE WITH PUFFINESS THAT STARTED A COUPLE DAYS AGO. HAS BEEN USING ANIMAL HIDE TANNING SOLUTION PAST FEW WEEKS/ALLERGIC REACTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/11/2002Age: 38 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Chemicals, Hot tubs or home spas
PT WAS IN HOT TUB, CHEMICALS IN HOT TUB BURNED HIS SKIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/07/2002Age: 40 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
ALLERGIC REACTION TO CHEMICAL WHEN EXPOSED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/30/2002Age: 39 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Chemicals
PT.REPORTED HE MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO SOME TYPE CHEMICAL C/O EYES TEARING WITH FREQUENT URINATION. DX-UTI ACUTE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/22/2002Age: 34 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
CHEMICAL INHALATION FROM STINK BOMB AT SCHOOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/16/2002Age: 30 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSURE TO CHEMICAL - CAUSED TO BE ILL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/14/2002Age: 35 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
ADVERSE REACTION WHEN EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/20/2002Age: 39 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
39 YO FEMALE EXPOSED TO FLOOR CLEANING CHEMICALS RESPIRATORY DIFFICULTY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/18/2002Age: 45 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT BROUGHT IN FOR INHALATION OF CHEMICAL, NO DETAILS DX; CHEMICAL INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/13/2002Age: 49 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT STATES HE WAS IN HIS GARAGE, MIXING CHEMICALS AND WAS OVER TAKEN BY THE FUMES, BREATHING PROBLEMS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/08/2002Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
DIFFICULTY BREATHING WHEN EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/05/2002Age: 29 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/04/2002Age: 34 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
FOUND UNRESPONSIVE AT HOME W/ RAG SOAKED W/ CARBURATOR CLEANER DX TOLUA NE HUFFING INTOXICATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/20/2002Age: 38 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT BROUGHT INFOR CHEMICAL INHALATION C/O SOB DX: CHEMICAL INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/03/2002Age: 45 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Chemicals
ACUTE ALLERGIC REACTION, SEPSIS - 45 YOM PRESENTS WITH C/O OF ITCHING A ND SWELLING S/P BENZYL PEROXIDE REACTION, HAS FACIAL EDEMA AND RASH
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 08/02/2002Age: 37 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Rugs or carpets
GOT CLEANING CHEMICALS IN NOSE, INHALED FUMES WHILE CLEANING CARPET. D X: CHEMICAL ESPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/01/2002Age: 43 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
INHALED UNKNOWN CHEMICAL, HAD DIFFICULTY BREATHING. DX: CHEMICAL EXPOSU RE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/04/2002Age: 35 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
35YOF-POSSIBLE ANTHRAX EXPOSURE-SITTING IN CAR WITH HITE POWDER-NO DIRE CT CONTACT WITH ENVELOPE AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/03/2002Age: 50 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
POISONING, PT RINSED HER MOUTH WITH SOME CHEMICAL, SHE MISSTOOK FOR A TOOTHPASTE, DID NO SWALLOWED, NO PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/20/2002Age: 46 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
CAME IN CONTACT WITH CHEMICAL FUMES AT STORE DX. INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/20/2002Age: 43 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO UNKNOWN CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/18/2002Age: 31 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT SUST CHEMICAL INHALATION TYPE NOT MENTIONED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/16/2002Age: 26 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/15/2002Age: 29 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Chemicals
29 YOF MIXED CLEANING CHEMICALS AND INHALED FUMES ANOXIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/04/2002Age: 38 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/01/2002Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT INGESTED AMONIA , NO DETAILSDX: AMONIA INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/27/2002Age: 48 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
STATES OPENED JAR OF UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE AND STARTED THROWING UP. STRONGA MONIA SMELL AND WHEN THREW IT DOWN IT STARTED SMOKING ON THE FLOOR. DX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/20/2002Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/01/2002Age: 32 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Wallpaper
PT AT HOME STRIPPING WALLPAPER W DIETHYLENE GLYCOLDX: SOB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/11/2002Age: 47 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Thermometers
CHEMICAL INHALATION - INHALED MERCURY VAPOR SINCE 7 PM THE NIGHT BEFORE MERCURY CAME FROM A WALL THERMOMETER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/11/2002Age: 48 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Thermometers
CHEMICAL INHALATION - INHALED MERCURY VAPOR SINCE 7 PM THE NIGHT BEFORE MERCURY CAME FROM A WALL THERMOMETER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/11/2002Age: 44 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Thermometers
CHEMICAL EXPOSURE - WAS EXPOSED TO MERCURY VAPOR IN APARTMENT BUILDING MERCURY CAME FROM A WALL THERMOMETER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/08/2002Age: 39 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
REACTION TO CHEMICAL EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/31/2002Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
BECAME DYSPNEIC WORKING WITH CHEMICALS IN GARAGE, STOPPED BREATHING. INHALATION OF TOXIC CHEMICALS, DOA.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead


Date: 03/29/2002Age: 43 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL - NOT STATED TYPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/26/2002Age: 37 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT C/O BURNING EYES,PHOTOPHOBIA,LIGHT HEADNESS S/P 5 HRS OF EXPOSURE TO SOLVENT FUMES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/24/2002Age: 34 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT BROUGHT IN FOR INHALATION OF TOXIC FUMES DX;: TOXIC FUMES INHALTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/23/2002Age: 42 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT BROUGHT IN FOR EXPOSURE TO UNKNOWN CHEMICAL DX; CHEMICAL EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/23/2002Age: 43 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals, Containers
INHALED CLEAR, ODORLESS CHEMICAL GAS FROM CAN AT CASINO NON-TOXIC INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/12/2002Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Chemicals
DERMATITIS GENERALIZED, DEVELOPED REDNESS AND ITCHING, GENERALIZED, AFTER USING "MEAN GREEN" CHEMICAL REMOVER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/11/2002Age: 28 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT EXPOSED TO LEAD DX LEAD EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/06/2002Age: 33 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO UNKNOWN CHEMICAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/23/2002Age: 47 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT BROUGHT IN FOR INHALATION OF UNKNOWN FUMES DX; INHALATION OF FUMES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/20/2002Age: 31 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Chemicals, Floors or flooring materials
PT WAS WORKING WITH MERCURY, SMALL AMOUNT SPILLED ON FLOOR, SOME SPILLE D ON HANDS, ADVISED TO COME TO ER, DX EXPOSURE TO MERCURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/17/2002Age: 44 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Chemicals
SPRAYING CHEMICAL THIS AM AT HOME AND HAD ALLERGIC REACTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/15/2002Age: 49 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT WAS AT NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND WAS EXPOSED TO CHEMICALS. THEY HAD A METH LAB. DX CHEMICAL EXPOSURE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/14/2002Age: 40 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Chemicals, Bags
CHEMICAL EXPOSURE, PT STS INHALED SOME BLACK DUST FROM THE GARBAGE BAG, C/O CHEST PAIN & SOB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/12/2002Age: 26 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSURE TO MERCURY@
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/07/2002Age: 32 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
CLEANED BATHROOM WITH MIXED CHEMICALSBRONCHOSPASMS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/02/2002Age: 28 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT C/O OF INHALATION OF CHEMICAL NO OTHER DETAILS DX: CHEMICAL INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/21/2002Age: 27 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Chemicals, Dune buggies/beach buggies
PT WORKING ON DUNE BUGY, WHEN EXPOSED TO SOME TYPE OF CHEMICALS CAUSING SHORTNESS OF BREATH/WEAKNESS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 01/21/2002Age: 34 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Chemicals
EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL - NOT STATED WHAT TYPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/18/2002Age: 50 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
50 YOM AT HOME WHEN HE INHALED ANHYDROUS CHEMICAL SPILL, 7 MILES FROM HIS HOME-DX ANHYDROUS INHALATION EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/18/2002Age: 45 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
45 YOF AT HOME WHEN SHE INHALED ANHYDROUS CHEMICALS THAT SPILLED 7, MILES FROM HER HOME-DX ANHYDROUS INHALATION EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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