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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 959
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| LT HAND BURN ON A BREAKER BOX-NOT ELECTRICUTED DX: 2ND DEGREE BURN TO L T HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| CRUSH INJURY W/SUBUNGAL HEMATOMA - 33 YOM INJURED RIGHT INDEX FINGER PU LLING OUT CIRCUIT BREAKER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PT TRYING TO CHANGE A FUSE IN THE FUSE BOX AT HOME SUSTAINED AN ELECTRI C SHOCK INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| 55 Y.O. W MALE W/LAC TO FOREHEAD. PT STRUCK HIS FOREHEAD ON AN ELECTRIC AL METAL PANELBOARD @ HOME. E9179 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| FLASH TO EYES FROM A BREAKER DX. CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| FATHER SAYS HE SWALLOWED A RECTANGULAR PLASTIC AUTOMOTIVE FUSE. POINTS TO ESOPHAGUS. DX; ESOPHAGEAL FB |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 10/22/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| LEFT FOOT LACERATION.PT HAD A FUSE BOX FALL ON FOOT AND LACERATE FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| 38YOF HIT HAND ON ELECTRICAL BOX AT HOME DX/ L HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PATIENT WAS ON A CIRCUIT BREAKER, TOUCHED AN OPEN SWITCH, RECEIVED ELECTRICAL SHOCK. DX-ELECTRICAL SHOCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/01/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| HIT HEAD ON RUSTY ELECTRICAL BOX CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2002 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| LAC TO ARM WHEN STRUCK ON ELECTRIC PANEL DOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2002 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| HIT HEAD ON ELECTRICAL BOX-LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2002 | Age: 17 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| WAS CHEWING ON GLASS FUSE, FUSE SHATTERED IN MOUTH, SWALLOWED ON GLASS. DX: INGESTED FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| ELECTRICALLY SHOCKED BY FUSE BOX- EARS RINGING AND FEELS LETHARGIC. DX MINOR ELECTRIC SHOCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2002 | Age: 87 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: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| SMOKE INHALATION.PT HAD A HOUSE FIRE DUE TO A CIRCUIT BREAKER CATCHING ON FIRE.FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS THERE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| HIT ARM ON ELECTRIAL BOX AT HOME. LACERATION TO RIGHT FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PT PUT A FUSE IN HER EAR. DX RIGHT EAR FOREIGN BODY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2002 | Age: 65 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, Elec |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters, Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| 2ND BURN LT HAND, WAS WORKING ON A FUSE BOX 110 WATTS, TOUCHED A HOT WI RE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| 5 Y.O. W MALE W/FB REMOVAL TO NOSE. PT STUCK A FUSE UP HIS NOSE @ HOME. E915 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters, Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT TOUCHED LIVE CIRCUT WITH A WRENCH CAUSING ELECTRICAL INJURY TO FINGER AT HOME DX:LACERATION TO THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| THE ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BOX CLOSED ON FINGERSDX: R INDEX & MIDDLE FINGER L AC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2002 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| CHOKED ON 2 SMALL PLASTIC AND METAL CAR FUSES. DX ASPIRATEDFOREIGN BODY . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PT WAS REPLACING BREAKER WHEN BREAKER BOX BLEW UP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2002 | 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: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| RT RING FINGER LAC-CUT ON AN ELECTRICAL PANEL-LOCALE NS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters, Soccer |
| PLAYING SOCCER HIT HEAD AGAINST ELECTRICAL BOX. -LOC. LACERATION SKULL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK WHEN TOUCHED ELECTRIC BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| SCALP LACERATION - STRUCK HEAD ON METAL DOOR TO CIRCUIT BREAKER BOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2002 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| FELL WHILE IN BASEMENT CHANGING FUSE. FEET GOT TANGLED. 5CM DEEP LAC RT CHEEK/CHIN@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2002 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| RT HAND ELECTRICAL SHOCK-CHANGING A FUSE IN AN OLD FUSE BOX-GOT SH OCKED-LOCALE NOT STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters, Football |
| PLAYING FOOTBALL AT FRIEND'S HOUSE & RAN INTO ELECTRICAL BOXDX: SCROTAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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