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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,018
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| HELPING SISTER TO PAINT -LIFTING SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2005 | Age: 13 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| POISONING, MOTHER STS PT EXPOSED TO LEAD PAINT AT HOME, C/O DIZZINESS, COUGH, THERE IS MOLD/FUNGUS IN APT, HX OF ASTHMA, OBSERVATION ER.. |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 12/15/2005 | Age: 6 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| POISONING, MOTHER STS PT EXPOSED TO LEAD PAINT AT HOME, C/O DIZZINESS, COUGH, THERE IS MOLD/FUNGUS IN APT. OBSERVATION ER. |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 11/25/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Day wear |
| CHEMICAL BURNS TO FOREARM-SPILLED LACQUER THINNER ON SHIRT SLEAVE-@ HOM E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2005 | Age: 48 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: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS: PAINT THINNER FELL INTO LT EYE, FLUSHED WITH WATER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Containers |
| 2 Y/O FEMALE INGESTED PAINT THINNER WHILE AT GRANDPARENT'S HOUSE. GOOD AMOUNT MISSING FROM CONTAINER. DX: POISONING HYDROCARB |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/18/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PAIN TO EYE GOT PAINT CHIP IN EYE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| DX PAINT TO EYES: PAINTING HOME, GOT PAINT IN EYES AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 56 YO MALE WAS EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER SHORT OF BREATH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| SPILLED PAINT THINNER ON L FOOT DX: 2ND DEGREE CHEMICAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2005 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Metal containers |
| POSSIBLE INGESTION OF PAINT THINNER FROM METAL CAN, FOUND HOLDING CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2005 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Glass soft drink bottles |
| PT FOUND WITH *** BOTTLE WITH PAINT THINNER IN IT, POSS INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| MAY HAVE DRANK SOME PAINT THINNER DX: HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2005 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| RASH ON SCALP, HANDS, HAD LICE 2 WKS AGO, DAD USED PAINT THINNER AFTER USING LICE SHAMPOO A FEW TIMES, GETS LICE ALL THE TIME; DERMATITIS/LICE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Footwear |
| PT SPILLED PAINT THINNER ON SNEAKERS YESTERDAY AND DIDN'T TAKE THEM OFF FOR 1 HR. DX: BILAT FEET CHEMICAL BURNS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 2% AND 3% BURNS TO 35%.PT WAS IN BASEMENT USING LACQUER THINNER AND IT CAUGHT FIRE.FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS THERE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/29/2005 | Age: 47 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: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT SPLASHED PAINT THINNER IN EYE, HAD BEEN DRINKING, CHEMICAL BURN TO E YE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Metal containers |
| INGESTION OF PAINT THINNER FROM A *** CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2005 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT FELL INTO A PUDDLE OF PAINT THINNER AT *** STORE, RUBBED FACE WITH W ET HANDS. DX: PAINT THINNER EXPOSURE TO SKIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2005 | Age: 27 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| INTOXICATION WITH THINNER.PT.REFERS WHILE USING THINNER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT AT SCHOOL WHEN THERE WAS SOME RECONSTRUCTION GOING ON INHALED SOME P AINT THINNER AND GOT SICK THROAT TIGHT POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| INGESTION - 2 YOF WAS FOUND INGESTING UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF PAINT THINNER, HAS VOMITED X3 AFTER BEING GIVEN MILK BY MOTHER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Bottles or jars |
| DRANK FROM WATER BOTTLE IT HAD PAINT THINNER IN IT DX POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Day wear |
| CHEMICAL EXPOSURE-SPILLED *** PAINT THINNER ON SHIRT-@ HOME-MOTHERCONCE RNED ABOUT INGESTION-NO SYMPTOMS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Metal containers |
| PT PICKED UP CAN OF PAINT AND INJURED LOWER BACK C/O PAIN LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| STATES HE WAS IN AUTO BODY SHOP AND HAD SOME LACQUER THINNER FALL IN EAR DX CHEMICAL EXPOSURE TO LT EAR [OTITIS MEDIA] |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2005 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Tableware and accessories |
| CHILD POSSIBLY INGESTED XYLENE PAINT THINNER DAD WAS WORKING WITH. DAD TOOK CUP AWAY FROM CHILD. D:TOXIC INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2005 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| SPILLED PAINT THINNER ON LEG WHILE CLEANING UP FROM PAINTING PROJECT. S HEMICAL BURN LT LEG, PROBABLY ? ACID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT GOT PAINT THINNER ON FEET CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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