Accidents - Pressure cookers or canners - Year 2007

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 799
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	11
16-25 years old:	145
26-50 years old:	470
50+ years old:	172

Accidents - Body Parts:

Face:	285	Eyeball:	85
Neck:	84	Head:	71
All Of Body:	70	Upper Trunk:	50
Lower Arm:	46	25 - 50% Body:	30
Shoulder:	15	Lower Trunk:	15
Upper Arm:	15	Upper Leg:	15
Finger:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/25/2007	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
SUST BURN TO FACE R SIDE OF NECK AND CHEST FROM PRESSURE COOKER ABT 36% BSA DX 2 DEG BURNS TO FACE NECK CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/22/2007	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT OPENED LID OF PRESSURE COOKER AND WAS BURNED BY STEAM. DX: 12% TBSA BURNS BILAT ARMS.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/22/2007	Age: 63 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT WAS AT HOME, A PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED , SHE TURNED AWAY FROM IT AND FELL CAUSING A CLOSED HEAD INJURY, L-1 FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/22/2007	Age: 38 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
1% BURNS TO FACE.PT LIFTED LID OF PRESSURE COOKER AND BURNED FACE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2007	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT DX 2ND DEGREE BURN TO FACE LT CORNEAL ABRASION - C/O BURNED BY STEAM FROM PRESSURE COOKER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/09/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT SUSTAINED STEAM BURNS TO NECK AND CHEST WHEN COOKING WITH A PRESSUR E COOKER. D: 1ST/2ND DEGREE BURNS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/24/2007	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED IN FACE CAUSING FIRST DEGREE BURNS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2007	Age: 33 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED BURNS TO UPPER TORSO PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN TO UPPER TORSO DP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2007	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT STANDING NEAR PRESSURE COOKER WHEN LID POPPED OFF AND STEAM BURNED P TS FACE. DX 2ND DEGREE BURN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/27/2007	Age: 74 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
CANNING PEACHES AT HOME, BECAME VERY DIZZY, HAS NAUSEA, VOMITING. DX; VERTIGO, NAUSEA, VOMITING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2007	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
45 YO BRUN ON ARM FROM STEAM FROM PRESSURE COOKER BURN FOREARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2007	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
32 YO BURN TO ARM FROM PRESSURE COOKER BURN FOREARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/14/2007	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Arm		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PRESSURED COOKER EXPLODED TRYING TO OPEN IT " RUE BURN''
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/07/2007	Age: 20 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT BURNED IN FACE FROM STEAM WHEN OPENING LID ON PRESSURE COOKER DX: FACIAL BURNS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/02/2007	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT WITH BURN TO EYE FROM HOT WATER POPPING OUT OF PRESSURE COOKER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2007	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: 25 - 50% Body		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT WITH SEVERE BURNS TO CHEST, NECK, ARMS FROM EXPLODING PRESSURE COOKER, CONTENTS BURNED PT, PT HELICOPTERED OUT
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/24/2007	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: 25 - 50% Body		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT WITH SEVERE BURNS TO CHEST, ARMS FROM EXPLODED PRESSURE-COOKER PT HELICOPTERED TO ANOTHER FACILITY
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/02/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
2% BURNS LEFT SHOULDER.PT HAD A PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2007	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
43 YO BURN TO CHEST FROM JUICES FROM THE PRESSURE COOKER BURN CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2007	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
BURNED CHEST WHEN OPENED PRESS URE COOKER AND BURNED FACE AND CHEST WIT H HOT LIQUID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2007	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
DX CLOSED FRACTURE LEFT THUMB: INJURED THUMB ON PRESSURE COOKER AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/18/2007	Age: 30 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners, Hot water
PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED WHEN OPENED, PATIENT WAS BURNED WITH HOT WATER. DX-BURNS ABDOMINAL, BREAST AND FOREARM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/13/2007	Age: 78 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners, Hot water
PRESSURE COOKER BLEW UP ON PATIENT WITH HOT WATER SPLASHING ON HER CHEST AND FOREARM AT HOME. DX-BURN CHEST AND LEFT FOREARM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2007	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT RECEIVED CORNEAL INJURY FROM STEAM WHEN COOKING POTAOTES IN PRESSURE COOKER AND WHEN TOOK LID OFF THE STEAM HIT EYE AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/29/2007	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
PT STS PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED,SPLASHED PT IN L RIGHT FACE,NECK, CHEST, DX 1/2 DEGREE BURN TO R NECK & FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2007	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners
BIL THIGH AND ABD BURNS. PT WAS USING A PRESSURE COOKER WHEN STEAM EXP LODED OUT BURNING PT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/21/2007	Age: 48 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Pressure cookers or canners, Hot water
PT WAS USING PRESSURE COOKER, WHEN IT EXPLODED, HOT WATER HIT FACE, RECIEVED 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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