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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 942
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2005 | Age: 52 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 |
| INHALED PAINT FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2005 | Age: 68 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 |
| PT WITH NAUSEA, DIZZINESS, VOMITING AFTER PAINTING WITH VARNISH ON SUND AY. D: CHEMICAL INHALATION, DIZZINESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2005 | Age: 51 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, Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS USING ACRYLIC PAINT W/PAIN GUN & MASK & MAY HAVE INHALED FUMES. DX: ACUTE DYSPNEA, POSS ALLERGIC REACTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2005 | Age: 64 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, Aerosol containers |
| PT WAS SPRAYING SPRAY PAINT FROM AN AEROSOL CAN AND INHALED THE FUMES S TARTED TO WHEEZE CHEMICAL PNEUMONITIS INHALATION INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2005 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Mobile/Manufactured home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Mobile/manufactured homes |
| PAINTING MOBILE HOME WITH METAL PAINT, HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE/ SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/01/2005 | Age: 82 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, Bathtub or shower enclosures |
| PATIENT BECAME WEAK AFTER PAINTING A SHOWER. INHALED PAINT FUMES; POIS ONING D/T PAIN FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| WHEEZING, SOB AFTER PAINTING DX: ACUTE ASTHMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2005 | Age: 65 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 |
| PATIENT SWALLOWED UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF LAQUER. DX-INGESTION LAQUER, CONFUSION. (NOT STATED IF INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL.) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2005 | Age: 68 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Aerosol containers |
| PT WAS SPRAY PAINTING WITH AN AEROSOL CAN OF PAINT INHALED SOME OF THE PAINT AND DEVELOPED WHEEZING AND DYSPNEA CHEMICAL INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2005 | Age: 51 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 |
| CHEMICAL INHALATION-DEVELOPED SOB WHILE PAINTING W/ LATEX PAINT IN POUR LY VENTILATED ROOM-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2005 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| ANOXIA, VIA EMS, PT EXPOSED TO PAINT FUMES IN THE BUILDING, C/O DIZZINE SS, MILD SOB, HX OF HTN., |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2005 | Age: 55 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, Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT WAS PAINTING / STAINING YESTERDAY , INHALED FUMES FROM ACETONE AN P AINT C/O THROAT IRRITATION DX INHALATION INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2005 | Age: 60 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 |
| DYSPNEA. EXPOSED TO SPRAY PAINT 4 DAYS AGO AT HOME. DX: DYSPNEA, BRON CHITIS, HYPOXIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/17/2005 | Age: 77 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT WAS PAINTING HIS HOUSE TODAY WHEN HE INHALED THE PAINT FUMES AND DEV ELOPED SEVERE CHEST PAIN ADMITTED FOR CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/26/2005 | Age: 81 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 |
| PASSED OUT WHILE PAINTING, FUMES WERE BOTHERSOME/ SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/09/2005 | Age: 65 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, Painting equipment, powered |
| LIGHTHEADED, DIZZY AFTER PAINT SPRAYING IN GARAGE AT HOME WITH CAR RUNN ING. DX: HYPERVENTILATION 2ND TO NOXIOUS CHEMICAL INHALATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT'S HUSBAND WAS PAINTING INSIDE THE HOUSE AND PT WALKED IN AND INHALED PAINT FUMES AND BECAME SHORT OF BREATH (CHEMICAL INHALATION) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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