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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 907
See also: Other years, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/06/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| WAXED CAR YESTERDAY DX: SHOULDER SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2005 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT STATES HE GOT CARBURETOR CLEANER SPRAYED IN FACE C/O SOB SHORTNESS OF BREATH, COPD, ANXIETY ATTACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PTS FATHER WAS WASHING THE CAR WHEN SHE INGESTED SOME OF THE CAR SOAP P OISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2005 | Age: 46 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: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT WAS WQASSHING HER CAR WHEN SHE INHALED TIRE CLEANER DEVELOPED SHORTN ESS OF BREATH AND WHEEZING CHEMICAL INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 3 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| HANDLING 'ARMOUR ALL' WIPES, GOT IN EYE AT HOME. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS-@ HOME-SPLASHED CAR CLEANER IN EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2005 | Age: 33 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: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners, Aerosol containers |
| PT HUFFING CARBEURATOR CLEANER FROM AN AEROSOL CAN AND DEVELOPED SEVERE HEADACHE AND THROAT BURNING HUFFING INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Farm/ranch | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 51 YO - DX: LUMBAR SACRAL STRAIN - WAS WAXING TRUCK , WAS BENDING DOWN - COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN BACK UP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2005 | Age: 13 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| INGESTED CAR WAX INGESTION ERROR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| ACCIDENTALLY HIT FOREHEAD ON CAR DOOR WHILE WAXING CAR DX: FOREHEAD LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2005 | Age: 23 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PATIENT SUSTAINED A CORNEAL ABRASION & CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS AFTER WORKING W/BRAKE CLEANER & RUBBING HIS EYES W/CONTACTS IN THEM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2005 | Age: 19 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: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| DRANK ABOUT A TSP OF CAR WASH SOAP CAR DETERGENT INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2005 | Age: 36 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: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| POSSIBLE BRAKE CLEANER IN EYE FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE WITH RESIDUAL DEBRI S AND RUST RING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| WAXING CARS, SUDDEN ONSET SHARP L GROIN PAIN, DX; L GROIN STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2005 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| RASH, ITCHING ALL OVER AFTER USING CAR CLEANER ON CAR DX: HIVES, URTICARIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2005 | 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 2 YOM FOUND WITH EMPTY CONTAINER OF GASOLINE TREATMENT FOR AUTOMOBILES. POISON CONTROL CALLED PRIOR TO ARRIVAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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