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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 512
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 04/17/2009 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PT PER WIFE HAD A SEIZURE YESTERDAY C/O HITTING HEAD TWICE ON ELECTRICA L BOX C/O JERKING ACTIVITY SINCE YESTERDAY.D:SEIZURE LIKE ACITIVITY,AMS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK WHEN WORKING WITH A PANELBOARD AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| 54 YOM STUCK HAND IN FUSE BOX AT HIS HOME AND HIT 240V ELECTRIC SHOCK - BURNS TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2007 | Age: 56 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters, Floors or flooring materials |
| ACUTE SYNCOPE R/O ELECTROCUTION:WORKING ON FUSE BOX,IT WAS WET,NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED,WOKE UP ON BASEMENT FLOOR,DISORIENTED/SLURRED SPEECH |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/18/2007 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PT EXPOSED TO FUMES FROM FIRE AT HOME FROM ELECTRICAL BOX NO RECORD OF FIRE DEPARTMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2007 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PT REPAIRIG AN ELECTRICAL BOX OUTSIDE CHURCH & GOT ELECTROCUTED. 250 VO LTS. SHOCK OF A FEW SECONDS. D: ELECTRIC SHOCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2006 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| PT WORKING ON A FUSE BOX AT HOME AND EXPERIENCED A 1 SEC SHOCK ALL OV ER BODY NUMB AND TINGLING ELECTRIC SHOCK INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| TONIGHT DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM HAD R HAND ON ELECRICAL BOX, THINKS SHE GOT SHOCKED, TINGLING, BURN MARKS ON R HAND & FINGER. DX ELEC SHOC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2002 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| SMOKE INHALATION.PT HAD A HOUSE FIRE DUE TO A CIRCUIT BREAKER CATCHING ON FIRE.FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS THERE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2001 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/01/1998 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters, Floors or flooring materials |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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