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Accidents - Microwave ovens - Year 2004 - Upper Trunk

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 628
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

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Date: 12/27/2004Age: 2 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
BURNS 2ND DEGREE CHEST AREA, MOTHER STS PT SPILLED HOT SOUP WHILE TAKING IT OUT THE MICROWAVE, C/O PAIN, REDNESS, BLISTERS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/14/2004Age: 55 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
PT SPILLED HOT COFFEE FROM MICROWAVE ONTO CHEST. DX: PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN CHEST/UPPER ABDOMEN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/04/2004Age: 4 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
PATIENT PULLED BOWL OF POTATOES/WATER/BUTTER OUT OF MICROWAVE ONTO CHES T AT HOME; BURNS TO CHEST,NECK, FACE, 5%, 2ND DEGREE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 10/29/2004Age: 51 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Other
Product: Microwave ovens
INHALED STEAM FROM MICROWAVED POPCORN AND EXACERBATED HIS COPD FROM THE STEAM EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/19/2004Age: 7 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens, Hot water
PT TAKING WATER OUT OF MICROWAVE & SPILLED ON CHSET. 2 BLISTERS NOTED. DX: BURN NOS CHEST WALL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/09/2004Age: 7 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
BURN TO CHEST-@ HOME-SPILLED HOT SOUP ON HERSELF-SHE HAD PULLED IT FROM MICROWAVE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/01/2004Age: 43 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
PT BURNED FROM EGGS COOKED IN MICROWAVE PLATE FELL ON CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/24/2004Age: 18 monthsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
CHILD WAS REACHING WHEN TIPPED OVER HOT *** SOUP BOWL THA T HAD BEEN HE ATED IN MICROWAVE. SOUP SPILLED ON CHEST/ARM. D:BURNS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/09/2004Age: 5 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
BURN TO CHEST (1ST DEGREE) GETTING SOUP FROM MICROWAVE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/07/2004Age: 57 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Microwave ovens
ACUTE THORACIC STRAIN, DEVELOPED CHEST DISCOMFORT AFTER LIFTING A MICROWAVE AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/06/2004Age: 3 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens, Hot water
2DN DEGREE BURN CHEST, MAKING HOT WATER IN MICROWAVE AND SPILLED ON SEL F
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/24/2004Age: 21 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Microwave ovens
LIFTED A MICROWAVE OVEN PULLED SOMETHING IN CHEST DX: CHEST MUSCLE STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/24/2004Age: 58 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Microwave ovens
CARRYING MICROWAVE, FELL ON CEMENT & MICROWAVE LANDED ON CHEST. ACUTE C HEST WALL CT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/24/2004Age: 21 monthsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
PT HAS BURN TO BACK FROM HOT LOTION THAT WAS HEATED UP IN MICROWAVE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/14/2004Age: 5 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
PT W/ 1 DAY HX BURNS TO CHEST- BOWL OF OODLES AND NOODLES SOUP SPILLED ON HER WHILE TAKING IT OUT OF THE MICROWAVE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/30/2004Age: 26 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Microwave ovens
PT. PUT AN EGG IN THE MICROWAVE EGG EXPLODED DX: CHEST, ABD., R ARM & L HAND BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/20/2004Age: 7 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
PT. AT COUSIN'S HOUSE WHERE HE WAS GETTING RAVIOLI OUT OF MICROWAVE AN D SPILLED SOME ON CHEST. DX. BURNS CHEST.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/16/2004Age: 21 monthsSex: FemaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Microwave ovens
BURN TO CHEST - NOODLES SPILLED OUT OF CUP AFTER GETTING IT OUT OF THE MICROWAVE. D: BURN TO CHEST AND LEFT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/16/2004Age: 53 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Microwave ovens
LEFT RIB CONTUSION.PT FELL AND HIT CHEST ON MICROWAVE OVEN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/02/2004Age: 3 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Microwave ovens
PT SUSTAINED 2ND DEGREE BURN TO CHEST FROM HOT MICROWAVE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/01/2004Age: 5 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
PT WITH BURNS TO CHEST/ABD FROM HOT NOODLES THAT HER BROTHER TOOK OUT O F MICROWAVE PLACED ON EDGE OF COUNTER, PARTIAL THICKNESS BURNS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/29/2004Age: 42 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Microwave ovens
BURN TO CHEST - 42 YOF WAS HEATING UP MASHED POTATOES AND GRAVY IN THE MICROWAVE, WAS BURNED WHEN FOOD EXPLODED OUT ONTO NIGHT CLOTHING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/24/2004Age: 26 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Microwave ovens
PT C/O "A MICROWAVE FELL ON MY BACK"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/18/2004Age: 44 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Microwave ovens
PT DX SPRAINED BACK - DUE TO BENDING TO PICK UP MICROWAVE OVEN 2 DAYS AGO.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/09/2004Age: 3 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Microwave ovens
PT @NEIGHBORS HOUSE SUSTAINED BURNS TO RT SIDE OF NECK/EAR/BACK WHIL 12 E 12 YR OLD NEIGHBOR WAS PUTTING NOODLES IN MICROWAVE SPILLING ON PT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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