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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,045
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| C/O EPISTAXIS, HAS HAD HEATER ON IN HOUSE, NOT ON BLOOD THINNERS DX: EPISTAXIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT HIT BACK ON METAL HEATER. DX: LOWER BACK SECOND DEG BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL HITTING HEAD ON HEATER. DX: SCALP LAC 3 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2008 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| FELL HIT FACE ON HEATER AT NURSING HOME. DX FACIAL LACERATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| USING SPACE HEATER AND GOT UP TO GO TO BATHROOM AND TRIPPED OVER ITS CO RD, HITTING FACE AND LAC LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PATIENT FELT DIZZY AND FELL HITTING RT FOREARM AGAINST A METAL HEATER, LANDED ON RT FOREARM. DX-RT FOREARM CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| 52 YO HIT TOE ON HEATER FX TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Unkown | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT WITH BURNS TO BODY, WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS DRAPED OVER A SPACE HEATER |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 11/05/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT C/O CO EXPOSURE FROM HEATER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| DX 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO R UPPER ARM/DIABETES: TRIP'P & FALL'G AGAINST HEATER AT HEATER. NOW W R UPPER ARM BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2008 | Age: 92 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| 92 YOF SLIPPED AND FELL AND CUT ELBOW ON METAL HEATER AT HOME LACERATION ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT WITH CONTUSION TO CHEST AFTER TRIPPING AND FALLING OVER HEATER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2008 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| 88 YO FEMALE FELL AND HIT HEAD WHILE TRYING TO TURN ON HEATER CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT CUT FINGER ON BASEBOARD HEATER. LACERATION LT SMALL FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| FELL LAST NIGHT AND HIT (R) ELBOW ON SPACE HEATER DX- ELBOW FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT BURNED FOOT ON HEATER. DX: R HEEL BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/08/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| RT GREAT TOE LACERATION: ACCIDENTALLY KNOCKED OVER SPACE HEATER AND IT LANDED ON HER TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2008 | Age: 51 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: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT TRYING TO START HOT WATER HEATER WHEN FLAME CAME BACK AT HIM BURNING RT HAND W/SMALL BLISTERS NOTED. RT HAND MINOR BURN-NO FIRE DEPT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| 51 Y/O M INJURED L SHOULDER WHEN FELL AGAINST HEATER DURING SEIZURE AT HOME. DX; L SHOULDER SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 72 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: Anoxia |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| SENT IN FOR EVALUATION STATUS POST A HIGH CO LEVEL HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE HOUSE WHERE PT LIVES DUE TO FAULTY HEATER>> R/O CO POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2008 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems, Floors or flooring materials |
| 75YFC TRIPPED OVER A HEATER AND FELL TO FLOOR C/O SHOULDER PAIN DISLOCATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT INJURED WRIST ON A HEATER. DX: LEFT WRIST FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems, Beds or bedframes |
| CAMPING IN TRAILER WHEN TRIPPED OVER HEATER AND FELL STRIKING RIBS ON B ED FRAME DX FX L RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems, Floors or flooring materials |
| FELL IN TO HEATER, LANDED IN FLOOR, HURT SHOULDER. DX SHOUDLER CONTUSIO N |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT WAS LIFTING A SMALL HEATER & FELT A POP IN HIP AT HOME DX: MUSCLE STRAIN LEFT HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PATIENT FELL LAST NIGHT STRUCK ORBITAL AREA ON HEATER. DX-MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES, LACERATION EYEBROW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PAIN TO FOOT GOT HIT WITH FALLING HEATER DX: CONTUSION TO FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PATIENT LOST BALANCE AND FELL TRYING NOT TO LAND ON HEATER. DX; CONTU SION TO LEFT HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| 59 YO FEMALE WAS EXPOSED TO CO IN HOME WHEN HEAT SWITHES ON, FAMILY MEM MEMBER IN HOUSEHOLD DIED TWO WEEKS AGO - CO EXPOSURE -8 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems, Stairs or steps |
| PT WAS CARRYING A HEATER AND FELL ON THE STAIRS. DX: RIGHT FEMUR FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/27/2008 | 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: Anoxia |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems, Carbon monoxide detectors |
| 72 YO F CO EXPOSURE COMPLAINTS OF FEELING NAUSEATED, DIZZY,WEAK CO DETECTOR WENT OFF DURING THE NIGHT HEATER MALFUNCTIONED* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2008 | Age: 94 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT WAS AT HOME AND C/O HEATER MAKING NOISE AND SMELLING FUNNY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT WAS SITTING TOO CLOSE TO A SPACE HEATER AT HOME AND BURNT FOOT DX: BURNS TO RIGHT FOOT/ RENAL FAILURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/22/2008 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| TRYING TO STOP HER MENTALLY RETARDED DAUGHTER FROM FALLING ONTO SPACE H EATER, FELL LANDING ONTO BOTH KNEES WITH TWISTING ANKLE>>SPRAIN/FALLS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/12/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT RECEIVED 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO UPPER ANTERIOR TRUNK AREA WAS FOUND LYING ON FLOOR AT HOME NEXT TO SPACE HEATER. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 02/09/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT HAD HEATER REPAIRED AND C/O CARBON MONOXIDE EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2008 | Age: 94 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| IN FRONT OF SPACE HEATER FOR THREE DAYS RESULTED IN FULL THICKNESS BURN S TO LEGS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/01/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| FELL ASLEEP TOO CLOSE TO HEATER BURN LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PATIENT REACHED TOO FAR TO TURN HEATER ON FELT A PULL IN CHEST WALL AT THAT TIME. DX-CHEST WALL PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2008 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT HIT HER HEAD ON A HEATING UNIT AT THE NURSING HOME DX MULTIPLE CONTU SION TO POSTIER SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems, Carbon monoxide detectors |
| PT STATES HEATER WAS LEAKING SMOKE AND CO MONITOR WENT OFF DX: CARBON MONOXIDE EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| 53 YO M BURN TO FOOT FROM CERAMIC HEATER NOV 22ND* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Heaters or heating systems |
| PT TRIPPED ON A HEATER AT HOME FELL AND INJURED CHEST DX// RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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