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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 800
See also: Other years, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/30/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT WAS PAINTING WITH A PAINT GUN AND INJURED LEFT HAND. DX-HAND INFECTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/19/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, House repair or construction materials |
| 32 YO MALE FELL WHILE PAINTING AND LANDED ON ROOF FRACTURE 5TH FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| RT ELBOW PAIN AFTER PAINTING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2003 | Age: 19 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: Anoxia |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| 19 YO F SPRAY PAINTING ;C/O CHEST PAIN FROM FUMES CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2003 | Age: 40 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 |
| ACCID HIT SELF IN CHIN W STRAP AT HOME SUSTAINING LAC DX 1 1/2 CM CHIN LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2003 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| SON FOUND UNCONC. HAD E]BEEN DRINKING & SEALING BRICKS OF OLD WALL WITH PAVEMENT SEALER IN SPRAY GUN;- SAYS DID WEAR MASK & HAD FANS RUNNING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/26/2003 | Age: 37 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 |
| 37YOF BACK PAIN AFTER PAINTING AT HOME DX/L5 RADICULOPATHY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| 41 YOM USING A MOTORIZED METALLIC BRUSH, METAL WIRE BROKE OFFEMBEDDED I NTO RT EYE-DX FB EDGE OF CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2003 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 57 YO MALE WAS SPRAY PAINTING IN A CLOSED ROOM SHORT OF BREATH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2003 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT DROPPED A PAINT CAN ON LT TOES DX: FX LT 5TH TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2003 | Age: 85 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, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT COMPLAINT OF BACK PAIN AFTER PAINTING OVERHEAD 3 WEEKS AGO, FLANK MU SCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT SUST ABRASION TP EYE WHILE PAINT ROOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2003 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| 28YOM CLEANING PAINT GUN AT HOME INJ TO FINGER DX/INDEX FINGER TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT IS A CNA AND DOES ALOT OF LIFTING BUT HAS BEEN PAINTING COMPLAINT OF L WRIST PAIN, L WRIST PAIN SECONDARY TO STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2003 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Ladders |
| FELL OFF LADDER WHILE PAINTING HOUSE DX CLOSE HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2003 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT USING A PAINT SPRAYER AT HOME ACCIDENTLY SPRAYED PAIN IN BOTH EYES C ONTUSION EYEBALLS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| SHOT SELF WITH PAINT SPRAYER DX. HAND CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2003 | Age: 33 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| WHILE PAINTING HIS HOUSE, INJURED FINGER SPRAYED PAINT INTO FINGER. FIN GER IS SWOLLEN,NO PULSES, CYANOTIC. MAY LOSE FINGER. TO OR. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/07/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| BURNS TO BOTH FEET.CLEANING PAINT SPRAYER,BAREFOOT,LIT CIGARETTE (CHEMICALS ON FEET)& STARTED FIRE TO FEET-FLASHED.DX 2ND DEG BURNS FEET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT WAS SPRAYING PAINT THINNER IN HIS BATHROOM AT HOME WHEN THE LACQUER CAUGHT FIRE SUSTAINED THERMAL BURNS TO FACE- NO MENTION OF FD INVOLVEME |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 01/31/2003 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PAIN AFTER PAINTING WITH BRUSH ALL DAY DX. SHOULDER PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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