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Accidents - School laboratory chemicals - Year 2007

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 349
See also: Other years, Other products.
Accidents - Body Parts:
All Of Body:155Mouth:87
Hand:70Eyeball:21
Lower Arm:15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records


Date: 11/27/2007Age: 16 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: School laboratory chemicals
PATIENT WITH H/O VCD AND ASTHMA HAVING RESPIRATORY DISTRESS WHEN DISECT ING A CAT USING FORMADAHYDE/CHEMICALS IN SCIENCE LAB AT SCHOOL;VCD, AST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/09/2007Age: 16 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: MouthDiagnosis: Other
Product: School laboratory chemicals
16 YO F ACCIDENTIAL INGESTION OF COPPER CHLORIDE PT GOT SOME ON HAND THEN COUGHED WHEN COVERING MOUTH GOT SOME IN MOUTH*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 11/01/2007Age: 28 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Other
Product: School laboratory chemicals
PT WAS SPLASHED IN EYE W/***ANOL, ***EHYDE AND ***NOL WHILE INVETHUP SC HOOL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 10/02/2007Age: 18 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: School laboratory chemicals
18 YO F EXPOSURE TO FUMES FROM SULFURIC ACID AND NITRIC ACID IN CLASSROOM AT SCHOOL DURING DEMONSTRATION BY TEACHER NO DIRECT CONTACT*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/23/2007Age: 25 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: School laboratory chemicals, Glass tubing or test tubes
PT WAS IN SCHOOL LAB WASHING GLASSWARE W/ METHANOL. DID NOT WASH HANDS BEFORE EATING. METHANOL EXPOSURE. HEADACHE. D: METHANOL EXPOSURE, HA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/31/2007Age: 11 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: School laboratory chemicals
PT WAS @ SCIENCE FAIR @ SCHOOL 6% OF HYDROCHLORIC/MURIATIC SOLUTION SPLASHED INTO EYE. DX R EYE IRRITATION FROM FLUID.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 04/24/2007Age: 23 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower ArmDiagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: School laboratory chemicals
SPLASHED HYDROFLORIC ACID ON ARM WHILE WORKING IN LAB AT SCHOOL STATES WEAKNESS AND NUMBNESS TO ARM DX- CHEMICAL BURN AND EXPOSURE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)


Date: 03/30/2007Age: 18 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: SchoolFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: HandDiagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: School laboratory chemicals
PT AT SCHOOL IN A CHEMISTRY CLASS AND GOT HYDROCHLORIC ACID SPILLED ON HANDS CHEMICAL BURNS TO HANDS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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