Accidents - Automotive chemicals - Year 2002

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,755
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	384
6-15 years old:	20
16-25 years old:	214
26-50 years old:	863
50+ years old:	272

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Eyeball:	1,158	All Of Body:	428
Hand:	91	Face:	30
Upper Leg:	15	Lower Arm:	15
25 - 50% Body:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/06/2002	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Automotive chemicals
ACCIDENTLY SPRAYED HEAT WINDSHIELD DEICER INTO EYES. FOREIGN BODY IN BOTH EYES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/06/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals
2 YOM MOM HEARD BABY CRYING IN CAR SEAT AND FOUND AN OPEN BOTTLE OF BRA KE FLUID, THE BOTTLE WAS EMPTY. DX POSSIBLE CHEMICAL INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2002	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Automotive chemicals
DXCONTACT DERMATITIS OF BOTH HANDS. USING FINISHING COMPOUND ON HIS CARR (PRODUCT CALLED "NU-FINISH").
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals, Aerosol containers
CHILD PLAYING W/*** @ HOME, HIS CHEST & SHIRT SMELL LIKE SPRAY, UNABLE TO SMELL ON BREATH BUT VOMITED. DX EXPOSURE TO AEROSOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/06/2002	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Automotive chemicals
BRAKE FLUID IN RT EYE 3 DAYS AGO. ACUTE CORNEAL AB RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/20/2002	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Automotive chemicals
PATIENT SPLASHED CARBURATOR CLEANER IN EYES. DX-CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2002	Age: 28 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
ACC SPRAYED IN FACE WITH ENGINE CLEANER, FACE IS BURNING DX: CHEMICAL BURNS TO FACE AND EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2002	Age: 19 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals
PT DRANK UNKNOWN AMT OF TIRE BLACK BY ***/UNRE/ARO/VL/HYDRACATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/30/2002	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals, Clothes dryers
PATIENT DRANK GAS DRYER ANTIFREEZE (METHANOL), PT. THOUGHT IT WAS ORANG E JUICE, NO SYMPTOMS, PC CONTACTED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/26/2002	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals, Containers
MOTHER FOUND CHILD WITH LID OFF ***, PT COUGHING. DX: HYDROCARBON INGE STION.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/16/2002	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals, Garden hoses, nozzles or sprinklers
AT HOME SPILLED BRAKE FLUID IN EYES WASHES OUT W/ H2O FROM GARDEN HOSE DX CHEMICAL IRRITAION TO EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2002	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Automotive chemicals
PT SUST. INJURY TO EYE SPLASHING BRAKE FLIUD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/08/2002	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Automotive chemicals
PT WORKING ON HIS CAR AT HOME GOT BATTERY ACID IN LEFT EYE CHEMICAL CON JUNCTIVITIS EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2002	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Automotive chemicals
BRAKE FLUID IN EYE WHEN AT STORE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2002	Age: 20 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Automotive chemicals
FIRST DEGREE FACIAL BURN - BURNED BY RADIATOR FLUID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2002	Age: 11 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals
11 MONTH OLD F SWALLOWED TRANSMISSION FLUID. DX: ACCIDENTAL POISIONING WITH TRANSMISSION FLUID.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/23/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals
AT HOME- INGESTION OF TIRE CLEANER; PUT IN MOUTH & SPIT OUT- DENIES SWALLOWING. DX: POSSIBLE INGESTION
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 07/20/2002	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Automotive chemicals
34 Y.O. W MALE W/CORNEAL ABRASION. PT GOT BRAKE FLUID IN EYES. E914
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2002	Age: 38 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: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Automotive chemicals
PT GOT CARBURETOR CLEANER IN HIS EYE. DX CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2002	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Leg		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
BURNT LEG WITH RADIATOR FLUID. DX 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO RIGHT THIGH AND ABDOMEN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/14/2002	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Automotive chemicals
GOT BRAKE CLEANER IN HIS EYE OS TRAUMA WITH CHEMICALABRASION OF CORNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/06/2002	Age: 38 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: Automotive chemicals
CARBORATOR FLUID IN EYE DX CHEMICAL BURN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/25/2002	Age: 49 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Automotive chemicals
SPRAYED BRAKE FLUID IN R EYEDX FOREIGN BODY R EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/15/2002	Age: 25 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: Automotive chemicals
WAS WATCHING HUSBAND WORK ON CAR AND HAD ACRERATOR CLEANER SPRAYED INTO BOTH EYES, BURNING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2002	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
BRAKE FLUID IN EYE @ HOME; CORNEAL BURN OD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2002	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Automotive chemicals
CLEANING CARBURETOR WITH CRC BRAKE CLEANER 4 DAYS AGO ANDDEVELOPED REDN ESS, IRRITATION, AND LESIONS. DX DERMATITIS BOTH ARMS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2002	Age: 28 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: Automotive chemicals
STARTER FLUID SPILLED ON CARPET AND HE FELL ASLEEP. POSS. INHALATION. A NXIOUS. - EXPOSURE TO ETHER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/27/2002	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Automotive chemicals
ACCIDENTALLY INJECTED LEFT HAND WITH HYDRAULIC FLUID UNDER HIGHPRESSURE WHEN WORKING ON HIS ***.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/24/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
SPRAYED SELF IN EYES WITH CAR CLEANER DAD WAS USING AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2002	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Automotive chemicals
IRRITANT CONJUNCTIVITIS R EYE - GOT BRAKE FLUID IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2002	Age: 65 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
AUTOMOTIVE *** SPLASHED IN EYE CHEMICAL SPLASH TO EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/10/2002	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
WAS CLEANING A CARBURATOR FROM A CAR GOT LIQUID IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/10/2002	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
PATIENT WAS USING CARBURETOR CLEANER (ACID) AND GOT IT IN HIS RIGHTEYE. DX-CHEMICAL BURN RIGHT EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2002	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
GOT DEGREASER IN EYESDX CHEMICAL EXPOSURE BILAT EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/08/2002	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: Automotive chemicals
INGESTED BRAKE FLUID
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 05/06/2002	Age: 11 months	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: Automotive chemicals
ACCIDENT INGESTION OF BONDO(USED TO FIX CARS)-NO SYMPTONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/20/2002	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Automotive chemicals
SPLASHED DEGREASOR IN HIS RT EYE AT HOME. RT CORNEAL ABRASION. DO NOT CONTACT PT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/17/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals
PATIENT CAME TO MOM WITH *** DE-ICER ON BREATH, POSSIBLE INGESTION, PC CONTACTED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/14/2002	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
GOT BRAKE FLUID IN EYES LESS THAN ONE HOUR AGO, FLUSHED WITH WATER AND EYE DROPS. CHEMICAL EXPOSURE TO RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/11/2002	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
RT EYE CHEMICAL CONJUCTIVITIS-AT HOME-GOT CARBURATOR CLEANER IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/07/2002	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Automotive chemicals
OBTAINED BRAKE FLUID IN BOTH EYES. SEVERE CORNEAL ABRASION $
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2002	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Automotive chemicals
DX MILD CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS: BRAKE FLUID TO EYE AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/14/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals
PATIENT MAY HAVE INGESTED OR TOOK A SIP OF *** DE-ICER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2002	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: Automotive chemicals
SPRAYED SELF IN MOUTH WITH WINDSHIELD CLEANER DX. METHANOL EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2002	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: 25 - 50% Body		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Automotive chemicals
WORKING ON A CAR USING A CHEMICAL SOLUTION THAT IGNITED FROM CAR BATTER Y PT'S SHIRT CAUGHT FIRE F.D. NOT NOTIFIED DX PARTIAL THICKNESS BURNS
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 02/27/2002	Age: 31 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: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Automotive chemicals
BRAKE FLUID TO RT EYE DX CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2002	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Automotive chemicals
GOT BRAKE FLUID IN EYE DX: R EYE CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	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: Automotive chemicals, Bottles or jars
ACCIDENTAL INGESTION-@ STORE-DRANK SMALL AMOUNT OF *** FUEL INJEC TOR & CARBURATER CLEANER FROM A BOTTLE
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 01/20/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Automotive chemicals, Stools
EXPOSURE TO HYDRO CARBON-WHILE STANDING ON A STOOL TO REACH SOMETH ING FUEL INJECTION FUEL SPILLED ONTO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/20/2002	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: Hand		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Automotive chemicals
BURN LT HAND. SPRAYED CARBURETER CLEANER ON RUNNING ENGINE. DX;FLAME BU RN DORSUM LT HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Automotive chemicals
HELPING DAD WASH CAR AND SRAYED ARMOUR OIL CLEANER INTO EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/07/2002	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Automotive chemicals
POSSIBLY INGESTED TRANSMISSION FLUID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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