Accidents - Abrasive cleaners - Year 2003

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 622
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	271
6-15 years old:	75
16-25 years old:	55
26-50 years old:	168
50+ years old:	51

Accidents - Body Parts:

All Of Body:	300	Eyeball:	260
Mouth:	39	Hand:	16
Lower Leg:	6

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/28/2003	Age: 20 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Abrasive cleaners, Floors or flooring materials
PT FOUND SITTING ON FLOOR WITH OPEN *** BOTTLE IN HAND INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2003	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Abrasive cleaners
07YOM SPRAYED SCRUB FREE IN EYE AT HOME DX/CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2003	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Abrasive cleaners
18 YO MALE USED SLIVER CLEANER "SILVER POWER" AND BURNED HANDS 1ST DEGREE CHEMICAL BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2003	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Abrasive cleaners
CHEMICAL BURN EYEBALL WHEN GOT ABRASIVE POWDER IN IT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/2003	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: Abrasive cleaners
STATES HE SWALLOWED CLEANER DX INGESTED CLEANER
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 10/22/2003	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Abrasive cleaners
PT GOT CAN OF "***", SPILLED IT ON HIMSELF, FOREIGN BODY TO CAST, CASTR EPLACED IN ED TO ASSURE NO CLEANSER AGAINST SKIN; FB TO CAST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2003	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: Abrasive cleaners
CHILD POURED *** ON HEAD AND FACE. DX. ACUTE POSSIBLE NON TOXIC INHALAT ION-MILD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2003	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Abrasive cleaners, Bleaches
47 YO MALE INHALED FUMES FROM MIXING BLEACH AND *** ANOXIA ANOXIA
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/16/2003	Age: 48 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Abrasive cleaners
48 YO FEMALE GOT TILE CLEANING CHEMICAL SPLASHED INTO LEFT EYE CHEMICAL IRRITATION LEFT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/09/2003	Age: 15 months	Sex: Female	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: Abrasive cleaners
CHILD WITH POSSIBLE *** INGESTION. LEFT PRIOR TO MEDICAL SCREENING. NO BLISTERS OR EDEMA. MOTHER WILL FOLLOW UP WITH POISON CONTROL.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 09/05/2003	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Abrasive cleaners
CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS - 35 YOF PRESENTS WITH C/O RIGHT EYE PAIN S/P G ETTING SOFT SCRUB CLEANSER SPLASHED INTO RIGHT EYE WHILE CLEANING B/R
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/22/2003	Age: 56 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Abrasive cleaners, Bleaches
ADVERSE REACTION TO MIXING OF CLEANERS - *** AND BLEACH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2003	Age: 2 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: Poisoning
Product: Abrasive cleaners
ACCIDENTAL INGESTION-@ HOME-DRANK UNKNOWN QUANITY OF "***"-THEN VOMITED CLEAN"-THEN VOMITED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/13/2003	Age: 2 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: Abrasive cleaners
ACCIDENTAL INGESTION-FOUND W/ *** ON HANDS-UNKNOWN IF INGESTED-@ HOME
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 06/15/2003	Age: 89 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Abrasive cleaners
PT ACCID INGESTED *** CLEANSER.DX: ACCID INGESTION CLEANSER. DX: ACCID INGESTION CLEANSER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2003	Age: 13 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Abrasive cleaners
CHEMICAL IRRITANT EYE - 13 MOM WAS SPRAYED IN THE FACE/BODY WITH "***" BY SIBLING, LEFT EYE IS RED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/30/2003	Age: 11 months	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: Abrasive cleaners
PT ARRIVED TO ED S/P INGESTION OF "***" (HOUSE CLEANER) - WITH NO MANIF ESTATION OF GI.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/24/2003	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Abrasive cleaners
47 YO FEMALE USED NEW BATHROOM CLEANER AND EYES ARE SWOLLEN ALLERGIC REACTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/24/2003	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Abrasive cleaners
CORNEAL ABRASION - 29 YOM CHEMICAL DRAIN OPENER AND DEGREASER WAS SPLAS HED IN EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2003	Age: 34 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Abrasive cleaners
PT WAS AT HOME WHEN SHE GOT *** CLEANER IN HER LT EYE CAUSING A CEMICAL BURN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2003	Age: 3 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: Abrasive cleaners
PATIENT WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN AFTER HAVING INGESTED SMALL AMOUNT OF ***CL EANER 4 DAYS AGO, SOME VOMITING; PC STATED NO CONCERN; STREP THROAT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/16/2003	Age: 11 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Abrasive cleaners
INADVERTANT INGESTION-INGESTED SCOURING POWDER (GENERIC ***) UNKNOWN AM OUNT-AT HOME
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 03/06/2003	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Abrasive cleaners
CHEMICAL BURN TO RIGHT EYE FROM *** CLEANER IN HER BATH WATER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/06/2003	Age: 18 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Abrasive cleaners
GOT *** INTO EYES DX. CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2003	Age: 25 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Abrasive cleaners, Nonelectric toothbrushes
PT COMPLAINT OF THROAT BURNING *** GOT ON TOOTHBRUSH, CAUSTIC CHEMICAL IRRITATION HARD PALATE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/30/2003	Age: 2 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: Abrasive cleaners
PT WITH *** SPRAYED INTO MOUTH, INGESTION/LWBS
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

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