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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,901
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2009 | Age: 46 years | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 46YOF, H/O PSA, FD WITH ALTERED MENTAL STATUS,+AOB&ALSO ADMITS TO HUFFI NG SPRAY PAINT, HAIR SPRAY, GLASS CLEANER>>PSA/ETOH=0.208 INTOX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2009 | Age: 59 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Aerosol containers |
| 59YOM FOUND UNRESPONSCVE AFTER HUFFING A SPRAY CAN OF PAINT POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/08/2009 | Age: 59 years | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| H/O ASTHMA, ALSO A SMOKER, EXPOSED TO FUMES FROM KILZ PAINT/PRIMER AFTE R BECAME SHORT OF BREATH>>ASTHMA EXCERBATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2009 | Age: 50 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| RECENTLY STARTED ON ?***, NOW WITH DIZZINESS WHILE PAINTING LOOKINGUP T O THE CEILING>>VERTIGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2009 | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 46YOM WITH SOB AFTER INHALING PAINT FUMES DX: INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2009 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF KILZ WITHOUT SEQULEA - FOUND BY MOM WITH BOTH HANDS IN PAINT AND INSIDE OF MOUTH COATED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2009 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 80 Y/O M ALOC AFTER BREATHING PAINT FUMES INHALATION INJ. W/O HYPOXEMIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2009 | Age: 4 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Bags |
| DX PAINT BALL INGESTION: PT TOLD MOM HE INGESTED SOME PAINT BALLS; BAG STILL FULL; MOP CALLED POISON CTRL-TOLD TO GIVE TOAST & MILK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2009 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| MULTIPLE BEE STINGS FA-PT HAD ANAPHALACTIC REACTION AFTER BEING BIT ATL EAST 30 TIMES BY BEES WHILE PAINTING. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/04/2009 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, House repair or construction materials |
| PT WAS EXPOSED TO PAINT AND PLASTER FUMES AND BECAME DIZZY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2009 | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Tableware and accessories |
| PT DRANK SOME LATEX PAINT THAT WAS IN A CUP, PAINT HAD BEEN EMPTIED FRO M CUP & ONLY A FEW DROPS ON BOTTOM; FOREIGN BODY INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2009 | Age: 44 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DOING HEAVY LABOR,STRIPPING PAINT&PAINTING,ALSO DOING MULTIPLE DRUGS IN CLUDING SPEED,SMOKING THEM,CHEST PAIN DX: CHEST PSIN, DRUG ABUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2009 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PASSED OUT WHILE PAINTING SYNCOPE * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2009 | Age: 13 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT STATES INHALED WALL PAINT LAST NIGHT AND DEVELOPED SEVERE HEADACHE AND MEMORY LOSS DX: CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2009 | Age: 5 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Windowsills or frames |
| BIB PARENTS FOR THE CONCERN OF LEAD EXPOSURE/INGESTION, PAINT CHIPS ONT O WINDOW SILL>>R/O LEAD EXPO, LEAD LVL=15MCG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2009 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| CP, SOB AFTER BREATHING PAINT FUMES DX: PAINT FUME EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2009 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| GOT INTO A PAINT CAN & LICKING IT OFF HIS HAND DX: PAINT INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2009 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Buckets or pails |
| PT PULLED OVER A BUCKET OF PRIMER AND SEALER AND GOT INTO FACE AND MOUT H VOMITING POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2009 | Age: 2 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| WAS SEEN EATING PAINTCHIPS AROUND THE HOUSE, TODAY MD CALLED WITH LAB R ESULTS OF PB LEVEL WHICH WAS 53>>LEAD POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/13/2009 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF OIL PAINT MEDIUM.PTS FATHER FOUND PT WITH PAINT ON AND AROUND MOUTH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2009 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| INHALATION EXPOSURE-PT CONFUSED FROM STRONG FUMES AFTER STAINING WOOD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PTS MOTHER FOUND CHILD WITH A CHUNK OF LEAD BASED PAINT IN MOUTH AFTER MOVING INTO A NEW HOME POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT GOT INTO SOME WATER BASED LATEX PAINT AND DRANK SOME POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| PT HAS COPD, WAS STAINING A DECK YESTERDAY, TODAY IS HAVING SHORTNESS OF BREATH. DX: COPD EXACERBATION WITH HYPOXIA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/29/2009 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DRANK PAINT. DX PAINT INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2009 | Age: 7 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT PRESENTED FOR EVAL AFTER EATING PAINT CHIPS. HAD EPISODE OF COUGHING AFTER. LEFT W/O BEING SEEN. DX FB INGESTED |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/03/2009 | Age: 7 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Paintbrushes or rollers, manual |
| PAINT BRUSH WITH *** PAINT IN PTS MOUTH. DX POISONING |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 04/26/2009 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DIZZY,LITEHEADED W SOB, PT BELIEVES ALL PRECIPITATED BY SOME FRESH GLAZ E THAT WAS PAINTED IN HIS APT. DX: ASTHMA, ACUTE BRONCHITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2009 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| COUGH, PRECIPATATED BY FRESH GLAZE APPLIED SOMEWHERE IN APT BY APT MANA GER DX: BRONCHITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2009 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT AT BROTHERS PAINTING DEVELOPED FACIAL SWELLING SORE THROAT DX// ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2009 | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| INGESTED SMALL AMOUNT OF PAINT SEALER;DX POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2009 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT COMES TO ED AFTER INHALING PAIN FUMES WHILE NEIGHBOR WAS PAINTING GA RAGE. DX: FUME EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2009 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT COMES TO ED FEELING "NERVOUS" AFTER INHALING PAINT FUMES FROM NEIGHB OR PAINTING HIS GARAGE. DX: EXPOSURE TO FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2009 | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT DRANK UNK AMT OF *** PAINT AT HOME & STATES DIDNT DRINK MUCH B/C TAS TED BAD, C/O BELLY DISCOMFORT; POISONING |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 03/22/2009 | Age: 38 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PAINTING 1 DAY AGO, WELL VENTED, C/O PAINT FUMES DX: HEADACHE, FUME EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2009 | Age: 80 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT WAS SPRAYED IN FACE YESTERDAY WITH PAINT PRIMER DX ACCIDENTALN ARCOTIC OVERDOSE CODEINE * |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/18/2009 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT WAS AT HOME PAINTING THE HOUSE AND INHALED THE FUMES DEVELOPED CHEST TIGHTNESS WHEEZES DYSPNEA ASTHMA ATTACK |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/17/2009 | Age: 72 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: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| SUDDEN ONSET OF DIZZINESS&SENSATION OF ROOM SPINNING WHILE PAINTING >>VERTIGO |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/05/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| REACTION TO PAINT AT HOTEL - DIFFICULTY BREATHING CHEMICAL INTOLERANCE / DYSPNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2009 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| LEAD PAINT INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2009 | Age: 16 months | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| POISONING- WOOD VARNISH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2009 | Age: 35 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| H/O ASTHMA, VISITING SOMEONE IN THE HOSPITAL, EXPOSED TO FUMES FROM ?PA INTING,&GRADUALLY DEVELOPED SHOTRNESS OF BREATH>>ASTHMA EXCERBATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 12 months | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| RECENT PLUMBING REPAIR AND FOUND W/ PAINT DUST IN NOSE DX: LEAD EXPOSURE, LEAD LEVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 19 years | 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: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Balloons |
| ALLERGIC RXN/19YOF C/O BEING EXPOSED TO LATEX PAINT, THEN LATEX BALLOON THEN THROAT TIGHTENED AND EYES GOT PUFFY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2009 | Age: 74 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DYSPNEA, PNEUMONIA, & HUFFING:PT COVERED IN GREEN PAIN,SLIGHT GOLD TINGE TO CHEST,S.O.B., CONCERNED PT MAY BE "HUFFING" PAINT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/24/2009 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Paintbrushes or rollers, manual |
| PUT PAINT BRUSH WITH PAINT INTO MOUTH/INGESTED FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2009 | Age: 12 months | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DAD RECENTLY PAINTED THE HOUSE AND DID NOT SCRAPE OFF OLD PAINT CONTAMI NATED WITH LEAD. DX: LEAD POISONING/ INTOXICATION; ADMITTED |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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