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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,717
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS PAINTING, PT WAS SITTING CROSS-LEGGED WHEN PT WENT TO GET UP FOOT WAS ASLEEP, PT TWISTED ANKLE. DX: ANKLE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DEVELOPED DISCOMFORT IN RT. THUMB WHILE USING A SPRAYER TO PAINT SPRAY AT HOME. RT. THUMB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 20 YOM ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSED TO HIGH PRESSURE ***-WATERBASED PAINT FROM PAINT SPRAYER SUSTAINING PUNCTURE WOUND WITH FB RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT SMASHED FINGER IN PAINT SPRAYER. DX: L MIDDLE FINGER CRUSH/LAC 2.5 CM/TUFT FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2008 | Age: 51 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 |
| PT HAS PAIN IN SHOULDER, HAS BEEN DOING PAINTING WITH A ROLLER DX: TENDINITIES OF SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT INJURED KNEE WHILE PAINTING. DX: LEFT KNEE PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS PAINTING BASEBOARDS OVER WEEKEND, LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PAIN TO CHEST AFTER PAINTING DX: CHEST STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT SPRAY-PAINTING CARPORT THIS AM & NOW FEELS DIZZY. PT CALLED PCC FROM HOME,THINKS HE HAS TOXIC INHALE.DX: CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT BENT DOWN TO PICK UP SOME PAINT TRAYS, PT FELT PAIN LIKE HIP WENT OUT. DX: DISLOCATION OF L HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/20/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Welding equipment |
| WAS SPRAY PAINTING & WORKING W/WELDING DEVICE, SPRAY PAINT BOTTLE BLEW UP IN FACE DX: FACIAL BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| HEAD INJURY WHILE PAINTING,HIT HEAD. DX-LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT CUT FINGER WITH PAINT SCRAPER-FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 15 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 STATES ACCIDENTLY SHOT SELF WITH A PAINT GUN DX RT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS PAINTING YESTERDAY OVER HEAD WITH A ROLLER, NOW COMES IN WITH PAIN IN NECK DOWN IN ARM. DX: NECK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| SHOULDER PAINS FROM REMOVING PAINT FROM HOUSE. DX-BILATERAL SHOULDER PAIN,BURSITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PAINTING @ HOME-STRAIN SHOULDER RIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Buckets or pails |
| PT SMASHED THUMB BETWEEN BUCKET OF PAINT AND A BUMPER DX: THUMB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WITH NECK STRAIN FROM PAINTING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| USED HIGH PRESSURE HOSE TO PAIN LAST NIGHT AND ACCIDENTALLY INJECTED FINGER WITH PAINT. DX-FINGER INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT WITH CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS, PAINT CHIPS FROM SPRAY PAINT IN EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WOKE UP THIS MORNING WITH PAIN IN LOW BACK, PT HAS BEEN PAINTING OF AND ON LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, DX: LOW BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| DX LUMBAR STRAIN: ONSET AFTER WORKING AND PAINTING OVERHEAD OF GARAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT AT HOME DOING A LOT OF PAINTING PAIN IN L SHOULDER /DX L SHOULDER STRAIN OVERUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS PAINTING AND FELL 10 FT AND WAS FOUND SITTING ON GROUND 1 BLOCK AWAY SURROUNDED BY BLOOD. DX; HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS PAINTING AND BEGAN HAVING ARM PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 19 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: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| DX CERVICAL MUSCLE SPASM/L POSTERIOR CERVICAL LYMPH NODE/SCALP ACNE: ONSET WHILE PAINTING, TURNED HEAD W ACUTE NECK PAIN & MUSCLE SPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| INHALED FUMES FROM SPRAY PAINT SHORTNESS OF BREATH INHALATION IN JURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 24 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: Painting equipment, powered |
| DX DIZZINESS SECONDARY TO PAINT FUME EXPOSURE: SPRAY PAINTING IN ENCLOSED ROOM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| PAINTING & LIFTING @ HOME DX CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| 35 YO FEMALE WAS PAINTING INSIDE HIS HOUSE LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2008 | Age: 29 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: Other |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered, Ceilings and walls |
| DX R ARM OVERUSE SYNDROME: PAINTING WALLS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 44 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 |
| PAINTING, HURT BACK DX SHOULDER PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2008 | 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 Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Painting equipment, powered |
| STRAIN RT.HIP.PT.REFERS WHILE PAINTING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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