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Accidents - Furniture polishes or waxes - Year 2007

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 381
See also: Other years, Other products.
Accidents - Body Parts:
All Of Body:320Head:15
Eyeball:15Unkown:15
Finger:15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records


Date: 12/12/2007Age: 15 monthsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
LAST NIGHT PT DRANK SOME *** OIL PROBABLY NOT VERY MUCH, TODAY PT IS A BIT FUSSY AND NOT EATING. DX: POISONING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/05/2007Age: 15 monthsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
POSSIBLY DRANK LEMON OIL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/01/2007Age: 13 monthsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
INGESTED UNKNOWN AMT *** FURNITURE POLISH, ALERT/NON DISTRESSEDBREATH S OUNDS IN ED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/14/2007Age: 62 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
PT AWOKE AND DRANK FROM A BOTTLE OF FURNITURE POLISH INSTEAD OF HER WAT ER SPIT IT OUT RINSED MOUTH DX// ACCIDENTAL INGESTION A SYMPTOMATIC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/26/2007Age: 16 monthsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
POSS INGESTION-MOM THINKS BABY DRANK *** SCRATCH COVER WOOD POLISH-NOT SURE BUT SOME IN MOUTH, APPEARS WELL ON EXAM & BREATHING NORMAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/12/2007Age: 18 monthsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
PATIENT INGESTED *** FURNITURE POLISH. DX-INGESTION ACCIDENTAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/02/2007Age: 19 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
C/O PT STATES ACCIDENTLY SPLASED WAX IN EYE DX CHEMICAL BURN TO RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/24/2007Age: 2 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
FOUND IN ROOM WITH *** WOOD CLEANER ALL OVER HEAD & FACE& SPITTING IT O UT. DX; ACCIDENTAL INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 03/12/2007Age: 21 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes, Aerosol containers
PT HUFFED ***/DUST OFF INHALENT AT PARTY. FELT HEART RACING. NOW ANXIOU S. D:PANIC ATTACK LIKELY SECONDARY TO INHALANT USE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/13/2007Age: 4 monthsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: UnkownDiagnosis: Other
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes, Aerosol containers
SPRAYED WITH AEROSOL SPRAY WAX/NO APPARENT DISTRESS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/05/2007Age: 15 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HeadDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes, Bathtubs or showers
HAD USED *** ON BATHROOM FLOOR MADE FLOOR SLIPPERY FELL AND HIT HEAD O N BATH TUB DX HEAD CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/03/2007Age: 54 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FingerDiagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
BURNT FINGER ON HOT WAX " BURN"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 01/10/2007Age: 3 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Furniture polishes or waxes
PT SWALLOWED UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF FURNITURE POLISH DX: FURNITURE POLISH ASPIRATION
Disposition: Held for observation

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