Accidents - Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,184
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	491
6-15 years old:	565
16-25 years old:	331
26-50 years old:	578
50+ years old:	217

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Face:	563	Head:	346
Toe:	250	Mouth:	196
Foot:	166	Hand:	115
Ankle:	102	Finger:	101
Unkown:	79	Upper Leg:	71
Knee:	59	Wrist:	40
Eyeball:	40	Lower Arm:	15
Lower Trunk:	14	Ear:	14
Internal:	6

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/26/2006	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
EAR CONT. PT FELL HITTING EAR AGAINST A FLASHLIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2006	Age: 27 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: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
HIT BY A FLASHLIGHT CLOSED HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2006	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT DROPPED A FLASHLIGHT ON TOE. DX: L FOURTH TOE FX/CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2006	Age: 14 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
FX FINGER WHEN FLASHLIGHT FELL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/09/2006	Age: 3 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: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT WAS PLAYING WITH SMALL READING LIGHT AND BURNT FACE, DX: SECOND DEGREE BURN TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2006	Age: 69 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
69YOM DROPPED FLASH LIGHT ON TOE FX DISTAL PHALND 1ST TOE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/29/2006	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT PLACED FLASHLIGHT IN RECTUM. DX: ANAL FB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/18/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
ACC HIT ONTO HEAD C A FLASH LIGHT " LAC"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/15/2006	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
FRACTURE TOE - 47 YOM PRESENTS WITH C/O RIGHT 2ND TOE PAIN AFTER A LARG E FLASHLIGHT FELL ONTO HIS TOE, DX: FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2006	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT DROPPED 5 LB FLASHLIGHT ON FOOT 4 DAYS AGO. DX: L FOOT CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/31/2006	Age: 33 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT WITH LACERATION TO UPPER LIP FROM BEING HIT IN MOUTH WITH FLASHLIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/24/2006	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT FINGER STUCK IN CYLINDER OF FLASHLIGHT DX// FB REMOVED LEFT THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/24/2006	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PATIENTS SISTER (3 YEAR OLD) HIT HIM ON FOREHEAD WITH FLASHLIGHT. DX: .5 CM LACERATION TO FOREHEAD,.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/20/2006	Age: 25 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
25 YO F WLKING OUTSIDE STEPED ON FLASHLIGHT TWISTING ANKLE*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2006	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
STRUCK WITH LARGE FLASHLIGHT CONTUSION LEFT FOREARM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/21/2006	Age: 9 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: Ingested Object
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, Batteries
PT WAS PLAYING WITH A FLASHLIGHT, & NOW PARENTS CAN'T FIND THE BATTERY DX: FOREIGN BODY INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/09/2006	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, Batteries
PT.INJ.L.THIGH AT HOME WHEN PLAYING WITH A FLASHLIGHT & BATTERY ACID LE AKED OUT ON LEG. DX; CHEMICAL BURN L.THIGH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/30/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT PLAYING WITH BROTHER WITH A FLASHLIGHT, ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE FOREHE AD WITH FLASHLIGHT. LAC FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/28/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ankle		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PATIENT C/O TRAUMATIC ANKLE PAIN, BROTHER ACCIDENTALLY HIT HER WITH*** FLASHLIGHT AT HOME. DX-SPRAIN LEFT ANKLE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2006	Age: 37 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
HIT IN CHIN BY A FLASHLIGHT CHIN LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
BROTHER HIT PT IN KNEE WITH FLASHLIGHT DX: KNEE CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/12/2006	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
DROPPED LARGE FLASHLIGHT/TOE HEMATOMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/28/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, Batteries
MOM STATES CHILD HAD A LANTERN W/OLD BATTERIES, BATTERY ACID TO PALM OF R HAND. DX. CHEM BURN 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2006	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT CUT FINGER ON FLASHLIGHT. DX: R INDEX LAC 3 MM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
LACERATION OVER RT EYE: PLAYING WITH 2 Y.O. AND 2 Y.O. THREW FLASHLIGHT PT GOT HIT WITH FLASHLIGHT RT EYELID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/21/2006	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
DROPPED FOOT LONG FLASHLIGHT ONTO TOE ' FX"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/20/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
7 YO INJURED FOOT ON FLASHLIGHT CONTUSION FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2006	Age: 69 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, Batteries
PT. DROPPED LARGE FLASHLIGHT W/4 BATTERIES ON FOOT. DX. CONT R FOOT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/14/2006	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
CONTUSION FOOT WHEN DROPPED A FLASHILIGHT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/07/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
ACCIDENTALLY HIT WITH FLASHLIGHT/LIP LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/21/2006	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PATIENT DROPPED A FLASHLIGHT ON 2ND AND 3RD TOES RIGHT FOOT, DX-LACERATION TOES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
ACCIDENTALLY HIT FOREHEAD WITH A FLASHLIGHT DX: FOREHEAD LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2006	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
30 YO HIT HEAD ON FLASHLIGHT CONTUSION HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2006	Age: 20 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
FOREHEAD LAC - CUT FOREHEAD ON METAL FLASHLIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/27/2006	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
WHILE WORKING ON CAR PT HIT IN MOUTH WITH FLASHLIGHT. DX: LACERATION LIP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2006	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Dental Injury
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
SIBLING HIT PATIENT IN MOUTH WITH FLASHLIGHT, FRACTURED FRONT TOOTH, IN TENT NOT STATED; DENTAL INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2006	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, Tables
PATIENT WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH FLASHLIGHT WHILE CLIMBING AT HOME, PULLED FLASHLIGHT OFF TABLE, STRUCK HEAD. DX-FOREHEAD LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/15/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT HIT IN HEAD WITH FLASHLIGHT; CHI
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/07/2006	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A FLASHLIGHT DX: HEAD INJURY
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 02/25/2006	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
26 YOF HAD FLASHLIGHT FALL ON TOE CONTUSION R TOE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/22/2006	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A MAG FLASHLIGHT DX: HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/22/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT WAS HIT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH A MAG FLASHLIGHT DX: HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2006	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT. PLAYING W/METALLIC PORTION OF FLASHLIGHT. DX. CORNEAL ABRA/FB R EY E.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/13/2006	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
TOOK FLASHLIGHT APART & PLACED A ROUND PIECE OF METAL FROM FLASHLIGHT O NTO FINGER & IT GOT STUCK, SMALL AREA OF RED AROUND METAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/02/2006	Age: 70 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Unkown		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, Floors or flooring materials
~PT TRIPPED ON FLASHLIGHT ON FLOOR AND FELL , FOUND ON FLOOR BY NEIGHBOR PT IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS PER NEIGHBOR LOC
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/31/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
ACCIDENTALLY HIT WITH FLASHLIGHT DX: PERIORBITAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/26/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
BROTHER HIT PT'S L WRIST W/A FLASHLIGHT. DX. CONT WRIST.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/18/2006	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
LAC TO LIP WHEN STRUCK BY A FLASH LIGHT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/10/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT FELL AGAISNT A FLASHLIGHT AND INJURED FOOT.DX FOOT SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/2006	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: Flashlights or battery-powered lanterns
PT C/O HAND INJURY. PT HIT IN HAND WITH FLASHLIGHT. DX CONT TO RT HAND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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