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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 935
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2009 | Age: 16 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 16 YOM CARBERATOR CLEANER SPRAYED IN FACE, WASHED FACE THEN WHILE WASHI NG FACE GOT IT IN EYES DX:CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITS,HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2009 | 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: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT GOT INTO TIRE CLEANER AND NOT SURE IF THEY INGESTED IT/ POSSIBLE POI SONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2009 | Age: 23 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT GOT BRAKE CLEANER IN EYES DX: CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| PT IS BEING SEEN FOR REACTION TO EXPOSURE OF CAR TIRE CLEANER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2009 | Age: 17 months | 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 17MOM GOT IN THE WAY OF MOTHER WHO WAS WASHING CAR WITH *** GOT SPRAYED IN THE EYES CHEMICAL BURNS TO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 2YO HISP MALE SPRAYED SELF IN FACE WITH TAR REMOVER DX HYDROCARBON DERMAL EXPOSURE, 1ST DEGREE BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2009 | Age: 59 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT ACCIDENTLY POURED BUG WASH IN TO ANTIFREEZE RESIVOUR ON CAR AND TRIE D TO SIPHON IT OUT WITH HOSE AND SWALLOWED BUG SPRAY. DX: POISIONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2009 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| HAD CAR WASH WAX SPLASHED IN R EYE DX R EYE IRRITATION * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2009 | Age: 47 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 |
| ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOW TIRE CLEANER DX: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2009 | Age: 6 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT SPRAYED IN THE FACE WITH *** TIRE COATING CHEMICAL BURNS TO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2009 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| DX R KNEE EFFUSION: AWOKE W R KNEE PN & SWELL'G THIS A.M. SIMILAR PN & SWELL'G OF R KNEE AFTER WAX'G CAR 2 WKS AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2009 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT WITH LOWER BACK STRAIN FROM WAXING A CAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2009 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| DX OLECRANON BURSITIS/GOUTY ARTHROPATHY: R ELBOW PN F ABOUT A WEEK AFTER WAX'G HIS CAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2009 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT WAS HUFFING CARBURETOR FLUID SINCE 1500 UNKNOWN NAME OF CLEANER. DX HUFFING METHANOL INHALATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2009 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT SPRAYED TURTLE WAX ON HANDS AND RUBBED EYES. DX CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIV ITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2009 | 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: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF *** DX: CAUSTIC CHEMICAL INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/09/2009 | Age: 20 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| ^WAS WAXING A CAR VERSUS WAS OPENING A CAR WAS&ACCIDENTALLY SPLASHED SL EF INTO EYE, C/O REDNESS&IRRITATION>>CHEM CONJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2009 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 26 Y/O WAS WAXING AND BUFFING HIS CAR WHEN THE ANTENNA SLAPPED RIGHT HAND. DX-CONTUSIONS, ABRASIONS RIGHT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2009 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| R SHOULD PAIN/38YOF WAS WAXING HER CAR YESTERDAY AND NOW HAS R SHOULDER PAIN. UNABLE TO LIFT ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2009 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| SPRAYED TIRE CLEANER IN EYE;DX POSSIBLE CHEMICAL BURN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| WAXING HIS CAR BENDING STRAIN LUMBOSACRAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2009 | 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| INGESTED A2Z WHEEL AND TIRE CLEANER;DX POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2009 | Age: 37 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 waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 37YO WHITE MALE UNRESPONSIVE - WIFE STS PT DRANK ABOUT HALF CUP OF TIRE CLEANER, DX RESPIRATORY FAILURE, OVERDOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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