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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 906
See also: Other years, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Boilers |
| CORNEAL ABRASION, HOUSE BOILER EXPLODED AND ASBESTOS PIECES FLEW INTO HER EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2008 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Boilers |
| PT FELL AT HOME HIT HEAD ON BOILER + LOC DX// CONCUSSION SCALP LAC PN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/04/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Boilers |
| BURNED (R) HAND ON 180 DEGREE BOILER---2ND DEGREE BURNS (R) HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Boilers |
| PT DX TOXIC EFFECT OF OTHER SPECIFIED GASES,FUMES OR VAPORS - DUE TO BROKEN BOILER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Boilers |
| PT DX SMOKE INHALATION - S/P DUE TO BROKEN BOILDER AT HOME 3 HRS AGO. FIRE DEPT ATTENDED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Boilers |
| PT DX SMOKE INHALATION - S/P DUE TO BROKEN BOILER AT HOME 3 HRS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Boilers, Stairs or steps |
| PT DX STRAIN LUMBOSACRAL - PT STSTES HE WAS TAKING UP BOILER UPSTAIRS WHEN SLIPPED AND FELL ON HIS BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Boilers |
| PT INJURED UPPER BACK PULLING A HEAVY BOILER AT HOME TODAY DX// THORACIC STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | 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: Boilers |
| PT HAD TROUBLE WITH BOILER SMOKE IN GARAGE PT HAD TROUBLE BREATHING CO LEVEL 0.1 DX// CARBON MONOXIDE EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Boilers |
| INJURED BACK 2 DAYS AGO WHILE INSTALLING A "BOILER"---ACUTE MYOFASCIAL LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Boilers |
| BENT OVER TO PICK UP A BOILER , TWISTED BACK SPRAIN LUMBAR # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Boilers |
| WORKING ON OWN BOILER WHEN ACCIDENTALLY BURNT HAND ON A WATER UNDERPRES SURE>> BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 24 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: Boilers |
| CLEANING THE BOILER&GOT A FLAKE OF DUST OR SIMILAR INTO EYE, NOW WITH F OREIGN BODY SENSATION>>EYE IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Boilers, Beds or bedframes |
| 16YOF ROLLED OUT OF BED STRUCK RIGHT HAND AGAINST METAL BOILER; HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Boilers |
| SMOKE INHALATION FROM BROKEN BOILER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2008 | Age: 2 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Boilers |
| CARBON MONOXIDE EXPOSURE. WAS IN THE BASEMENT BOILER BROKEN & LEAKING G AS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 42 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: Boilers, Ceilings and walls |
| AT HOME PT CAUGHT FINGER IN BETWEEN BOILER AND WALL DX LACERATION L INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Boilers |
| HAND BURN WHILE TRYING TO FIX BOILER. A BLUE FLAME WENT TO FACE & HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Boilers, Day wear |
| RT KNEE CONT/ABRA:STUDENT @ VOCATIONAL BLDG WEARING LONG *** PANTS, HE LPING UNLOAD BOILER,HIT IN RT KNEE WITH 500# PIECE OF STEEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Boilers, Gas ranges or ovens |
| PT RECENTLY MOVED INTO NEW APT AND HAD TROUBLE WITH THE BOILER & STOVE & HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO CARBON MONOXIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Boilers |
| PT BOILER MALFUNCTIONED SMOKE IN BASEMENT FD FOUND CO LEVELS HIGH COHB 5% DX// CARBON MONOXIDE INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Boilers |
| PT BOILER MALFUNCITON FD CAME CO LEVELS HIGH IN HOUSE COHB 0 DX/ CARBON MONOXIDE EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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