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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,423
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/21/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| PT INHALED CHLORINE AT HOME AND DEVELOPED DYSPNEA DX INHALATION INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2006 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| P/W SOB S/P EXPOSURE TO HIGH CHLORINE LEVEL IN SWIMMING POOL " CHEMICAL EXPOSURE" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2006 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming |
| SWIMMING IN A POOL WHERE THE CHLORINE LEVEL WAS HIGH, NOW C SOB " INHALATION INJ" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| PT MIXING CHLORINE FOR POOL AND INHALED FUMES AND DEVELOPED HEADACHE DX// TOXIC EXPOSURE CHLORINE HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| PT OPENED CHLORINE TO PUT IN POOL AND TOOK A BREATH OF THE FUMES AND CO ULD NOT CATCH HIS BREATH DX// NOXIOUS FUME EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2006 | Age: 8 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: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| CHEMICAL EXPOSURE - PATIENT REPORTS INHALATION EXPOSURE TO CHLORINE TAB LETS WHEN A POOLSIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2006 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Toilet bowl products |
| CHLORINE GAS VAPOR INHALATION; 2 D AGO PUT 2 CHLORINE TABS IN TOILET, T ODAY USED "***" TOILET CLEANER WHICH FOAMED & RELEASED GASES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| PTS DAD MIXING CHLORINE AND POURING IT INTO POOL, CHILD WATCHING, INHAL ED FUMES AND HAD ASTHMA ATTACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2006 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| PT INHALED CHLORINE GAS FROM CHLORINE TABLETS AND DEVELOPED BRONCHOSPAS MS AND NAUSEA HEADACHE POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2006 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| C/O PT MOM STATES ACCIDENTLY ATE SOME SWIMMING POOL CHEMICAL DX POOL CHEMICAL POISION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2006 | Age: 16 years | 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: Swimming pool chemicals, Chemicals |
| PT TRIED TO MAKE A BOMB WITH RUBBING ALCOHOL AND CHLORINE. DX: SOB |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/18/2006 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Containers |
| PT OPENED A CONTAINER OF CHLORINE AND THE FUMES WENT INTO HIS TROAT AND PASSED OUT INHALATION INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/13/2006 | Age: 13 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: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| PT HELPING FATHER PUT ACID IN SWIMMING POOL AND INHALED ACID FUMES, C/O SOB DX: CHEMICAL EXPOSURE, SOB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2006 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| INGESTED CHLORINE, GRANULATED CLUMP IN SWIMMING POOL |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 07/29/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| PT OPENED CAN OF CHLORINE FOR POOL THE FUMES MADE HER HAVE DIFFICULTY BREATHING WHEEZING DX// CHEMICAL GAS EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2006 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| AT A POOL INHALED CHLORINE NAUSEA VOMITING CHEMICAL INHALATION REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2006 | 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: Swimming pool chemicals, Buckets or pails |
| TOXIC EXPOSURE TO CHLORINE-@ HOME-OPENED BUCKET OF CHLORINE TABLETS-FUM ES BURNED NOSE & THROAT-BECAME DIZZY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| PATIENT INHALED CHLORINE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| PT INHALED CHLORINE WHILE CLEANING POOL DIFFICULTY BREATHING DX// INHALED CHLORINE LEFT BEFORE BEING TREATED |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/15/2006 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| EXPOSED TO POOL CHEMICALS TROUBLE BREATHING NOXIOUS FUMES EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2006 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| TOXIC EFFECT TO CHLORICE GAS-NAUSEATED AFTER MIXING SWIMMING POOL CHEMI CALS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Containers |
| FATHER LEFT CONTAINER OF WATER WITH DISSOLVED CHLORINE TABS IN IT AT PO OLSIDE,CHILD LOOKED AT CONTAINER AND SPILLED IN FACE. RESP DISTRESS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/15/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| CHEMICAL INHALATION-@ HOME-MIXING SWIMMING POOL CHEMICALS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2006 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| 20 YOM, MENTALLY CHALLENGED, MAY HAVE INGESTED POOL ***. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2006 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Stairs or steps |
| PT. STATES HE FOUND CHLORINE ON THE BACK STEPS, SNIFFED IT, COUGHED, TH REW UP. DX. INHALATION INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2006 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals |
| CHLORINE SPILLED IN BACK OF HIS TRUCK AND CLEANING IT IN AN ENCLOSED SP ACE AND INHALED IT CHEMICAL POSIONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2006 | Age: 60 years | 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: Swimming pool chemicals, Containers |
| OPENING A CONTAINER OF CHLORINE TABS FOR SWIMMING POOLS CLEANING, LATER SOB " TOXIC INHALATION" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2006 | Age: 8 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Built-in swimming pools |
| PT AT HOME STARTED WITH A RASH ALL OVER BODY HAD BEEN SWIMMING IN INDOO R POOL DX POOL CHOLORINE ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2006 | Age: 16 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: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools |
| PT MOM PUTTING CHLORINE INTO SWIMMING POOL, PT INHALED SOME FUMES, STAR TED COUGHING AND CHOKING, CHEMICAL INHALATION, POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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