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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 149
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 66 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: Sprayers, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| DX LAC/ABRASION TO FOREHEAD/FACE/EAR/ DM KNOWN CONDITION: W PRESSURE WASH'G HIS DECK W NORMAL TAP H2O W WIFE W SHE TURNED & SPRAYED PTS FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT WITH CONTUSION TO FACE FROM DROPPING A PRESSURE WASHER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| 37 YOM WAS USING PRESSURE WASHER AT HOME AND IT POPPED BACK ON HIM LACE RATING HIS FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Sprayers |
| DX FB SENSATION TO BILAT EYES: W CONCERNS OF FB TO EYES. PT WAS WASH'G BOAT W PRESSURE WASHER W HE FELT WATER AND POSS GLASS FLY INTO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Sprayers, Eyeglasses |
| PT WAS HIT IN FACE W/WATER STREAM FROM PRESSURE WASHER WHICH KNOCKED GLASSES OFF. DX: R EYE CORNEAL ABR/BLUNT TRAUMA, EPISTAXIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Sprayers |
| PT HIT IN FACE WITH POWER WASHER TIP DX// FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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