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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 849
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/26/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| 34 YO WM - CONJUNCTIVAL ABRAISION - WHILE OPERATING A SPRAY PAINT GUN S OMETHING FLEW OUT INTO HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT CAUGHT FINGER IN PAINT COMPRESSOR MOTOR WHILE DAD WAS PAINTING. DX: R MIDDLE TIP AVULSION W/NAIL BED LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Ladders |
| PT PULLED MUSCLE IN BACK PAINTING, R LOWER LUMBAR STRAIN, LIFTING LADDE R |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2002 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS CLEANING AIRLESS PAINT SPRAYER AND HIT TRIGGER. DX: HIGH PRESSURE INJECTION L INDEX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| CUT THUMB ON A PAINT SCRAPER WHILE CLEANING IT. LACERATION TO RIGHT THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| FACIAL SWELLING SINCE SPRAY PAINTING IN GARAGE WITH DAD DX: ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| USING HIGH PRESSURE PAINT GUN, PUNCTURE WOUND INDEX FINGER L HAND. DX; HIGH PRESSURE INJECTION INJURY TO LT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 09/04/2002 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT COMPLAINT OF HIP PAIN RECENT PAINTING, L HIP TENDONITIS BURSITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| DX:HYPHEMA LEFT EYE. PT WAS LOOKING DOWN THE BARREL OF A JAMMED PAINT GUN WHEN IT DISCHARGED INTO HIS LEFT EYE.ADMITTED FOR OBSERVATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/29/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| 18 Y.O. W MALE W/BURNS TO FOREARMS. PT WAS USING A PAINT SPRAYER & IT E XPLODED. NS IF FD ATTD. E9218 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS HIT IN FACE WITH SPRAY GUN WHILE PAINTING HIS HOUSE CAUSING A 1 CM LACERATION OF NOSE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT CLEANING A PAINT SPRAYER AT HOME SUSTAINED A HIGH PRESSURE LACERATIO N TO LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2002 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Step stools |
| PT STANDING ON A STEP STOOL PAINTING FELL OFF STRIKING HEAD CONTUSION S CALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| LIFTED PAINT CAN - HURT BACK - LUMBAR SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT WAS POWER PAINTING AND INJECTED PAINT INTO LEFT INDEX FINGER.DX -CRUSH INJURY LEFT INDEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/30/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| CUT FINGERS ON PAINT MACHINE DX: CRUSH INJURY FINGERS 2-4. SUBUNGUAL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT OUT PAINTING OVER THE WEEKEND WITH CONTINUED BACK PAIN STRAINED LOWE R BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT PAINTING IN HER GARAGE AT HOME WHEN SHE UNCOVERED A SWARM OF HERNETS WHICH CAUSED HER TO FALL FRACTURED RIGHT HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/13/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| AC INJURY RT SHOULDER.. STATES HE FELL WHILE PAINTING.# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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