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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 694
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2002 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| WHILE TALKING ON THE PHONE, PT BLACKED OUT, HEROIN OD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT FELL TO GROUND WHEN REACHING FOR DROPPED CELL PHONE ADMITS ETOH DX:FOREHEAD LAC, ETOH INTOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories, Chairs |
| 20 YO F TALKING ON TELEPHONE FELL OUT OF CHAIR SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PATIENT USING **** AT HOME, WHILE ON TELEPHONE SHE BECAME NAUSEATED, DIZZY, HAS RASH OF CHEST. DX ADVERSE DRUG REACTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2002 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| SOB. PT WAS TALKING ON TELEPHONE AND BECAME SHORT OF BREATH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT FELL TO GROUND GRABBING CELLULAR PHONE WHEN HAVING A SEZIURE DX:SEIZURE, BITE TO TOUNGE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/10/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT. STATES HAD ANSWERED PHONE, GOING BACK TO SIT DOWN FELT LIGHT HEADED , PASSED OUT AND HIT LIP. DX. SYNCOPE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2002 | Age: 23 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: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK. PT RECEIVED AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK FROM A TELEPHONE CORD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2002 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT WAS ON TELEPHONE AND SUDDENLY FELL TO FLOOR, INSTABILITY SECONDARY T O ETOH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2002 | Age: 34 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: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT HAD 1 DRINK OF RUM, WAS ON THE TELEPHONE WHEN LOST CONSCIOUSNESS SUDDENLY DX:CARDIAC ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 07/24/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | 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: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| 9 YO M SHOCKED WHEN STANDING BETWEEN PHONES ELECTRICAL SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT INGESTED 5 5MG **** AFTER GETTING A PHONE CALL SAYING "HIS FIANCE IS A WHORE".DENIED SUICIDE ATTEMPT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories, Floors or flooring materials |
| WHILE ARGUING ON TELEPHONE, COLLAPSED ON FLOORDX: STRESS REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2002 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| OPENING NEW CELL PHONE AND IT HAD A SMELL THAT IRRITATED THROAT WHENINH ALED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2002 | Age: 11 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: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK FROM PHONE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2002 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories, Floors or flooring materials |
| WAS TALKING ON PHONE & COLLAPSED ON FLOOR DX: CARDIOPUL,MONARY ARREST, DOA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 03/06/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| WENT TO USE PHONE AND PASSED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2002 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK-SUS AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK FROM TELEPHONE CAUSING PATI ENT TO HAVE CHEST PAIN. IS AFRAID OF DAMAGE TO PACEMAKER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2002 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Telephones or telephone accessories |
| AT REST AT HOME TALKING ON THE TELEPHONE, FELT SHORT OF BREATH WHILE TALKING, THROAT FEELS TIGHT. DX EPISODE OF DYSPNEA, DEHYDRATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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