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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 646
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/26/2002 | Age: 53 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| NEW ONSET ATRIAL FIBRILLATION-PAINTING-INHALED FUMES OF PAINT THINNER- AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2002 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT HAS DIZZINESS, BURNING NOSE AND NERVOUSNESS SINCE PAINTING WITH SPRAY PAINT. D:ANXIETY REACTION, HYPERTENSION, POSSIBLE HYPERTHYROIDISM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2002 | Age: 91 years | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Knickknacks, statues, vases or urns |
| NO APPARENT INJ/91YOM POINTING DECOY & GOT RED PAINT IN MOUTH. SON BROU GHT PT IN. THOUGHT HE WAS COUGHING UP BLOOD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Floors or flooring materials |
| SWELLING OF LIPS, HIVES, EXPOSED TO PAINT ON FLOOR ON WHICH HE WAS LYIN G. DX LOCAL ALLERGIC REACTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2002 | Age: 55 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT DX ACUTE ASTHMA EXACERBATION - PT BECAME SOB LAST NIGHT AFTER BEING EXPOSED TO PAINT FUMES ,THAT TRIGGERED ASTHMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| SLEPT IN SAME ROOM THAT WAS FRESHLY PAINTEDDX: PAINT INHALATION/INTOXIC ATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2002 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| ALLERGIC REACTION; STATES NEIGHBOR USED BUG SPRAY YESTERDAY & TODAY INP AINTING & SHE'S ALLERGIC TO BOTH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2002 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| UNINTENTIONAL PAINT INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| INHALATION EXPOSURE-AT HOME-INHALED FUMES FROM CHEMICAL(VORTEX PAINTACT IVATOR) WHILE SPRAYING A TRUCK BED LINER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2002 | Age: 56 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Painting equipment, powered |
| PAINTING W/ SPRAYER THIS AM W/ PAINT MASK ON. BECAMEDIZZY AND LIGHT HEA DED. SPRAYING OIL BASED PAIN IN CLOSED ROOM. DX: PAINT FUME INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2002 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| AFTER CLEANING & PAINTING, BECAME DIZZY DX: EPISODIC DIZZINESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2002 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Paint or varnish thinners |
| 90 YOM WAS SHAKING A PAINT CAN WHICH EXPLODED; TRIED TO REMOVE PAINT WI TH LACQUER THINNER; INHALED FUMES OF LACQUER. ANOXIA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/05/2002 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| WORKING AROUND SAWDUST & PAINT FUMES ALL DAY NOW WITH DIFFICULTY BREATH ING. SHORTNESS OF BREATH DUE TO SEVERE ENVIORNMENTAL ALLERGIES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Aerosol containers |
| ACUTE ASTHMA SECONDARY TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS-@ HOME-EXPOSED TO SPRAY PAINT FOR 6 HOURS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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