Lethal accidents - 0-5 years old - Year 2002 - All Of Body

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,146
See also: Lethal and non-lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other body parts.

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Lethal Accidents - Related Products:

Beds:	239
Swimming pools:	144
Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches:	98
General home or room involvement in fires:	98
Built-in swimming pools:	92
Toilets:	68
Rope or string:	68
Pacifiers or teething rings:	67
Ceilings and walls:	60
Cribs:	42
Convertible beds, hideaway beds or sofa beds:	30
Chemicals:	30
Bathtubs or showers:	20
Baby strollers:	15
Floors or flooring materials:	15
Lighters:	15
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/31/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Portable food or beverage coolers
FOUND IN LARGE ICE CHEST UNRESPONSIVE;CARDIAC ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/27/2002	Age: 1 months	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: Other
Product: Beds
PATIENT FOUND BY MOTHER IN BED UNRESPONSIVE; SIDS
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/26/2002	Age: 12 months	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: Other
Product: Beds, Music boxes or chimes
DOA/12MOM IN CARE OF GRANDMOTHER & MOTHERS BOY FRIEND. G-MA LEFT HOUSE FOR 10 MINUTES. PT IN TODLER BED NEXT TO MUSIC BOX.FELL OUT OF BED.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/20/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Cribs
PT FOUND BY MOM UNRESPONSIVE IN CRIB FINE WHEN SHE PUT PT TO SLEEP @10P M TONIGHT/NO HX OF ILLNESS, CARDIAC ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/19/2002	Age: 11 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Crushing
Product: Baby strollers
HIT BY CAR IN STROLLER DX. DEATH
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/18/2002	Age: 6 months	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: Anoxia
Product: Blankets, Cribs
PATIENT PUT DOWN FOR NAP IN CRIB OR ON COUCH, FOUND UNRESPONSIVE WITH W ET/DAMP BLANKET/SHEET WRAPPED AROUND NECK, FACE BLUE; ASPHYXIATION
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 12/09/2002	Age: 20 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
PATIENT FOUND BY MOTHER UNRESPONSIVE IN BED AT HOME; CAUSE OF DEATH UNK NOWN
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 11/29/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Beds
PTS MOTHER AWOKE TO FINDER PT UNRESPONSIVE IN THE BED NEXT TO HER CARDI OPULMONARY ARREST ANOXIA
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 11/23/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
PT WAS SLEEPING ON ADULT BED AND WAS FOUND BY MOM NOT BREATHING. DX: CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 11/22/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Baby bottles or nipples
PTS UNCLE WENT TO ROOM TO CHECK ON PT - HE FOUND PT LYING ON SIDE WITH STUFF COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH - PT HAD BEEN DRINKING A BOTTLE WITH TEA.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 11/09/2002	Age: 4 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches
4 MONTH OLD MALE FOUND ON SOFA NOT BREATHING CEASED TO BREATH
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 10/22/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches
PT SLEPT ON THE COUCH AT HOME WITH FATHER WHEN FATHER WOKE UP THE CHILD WAS UNDER HIM NOT BREATHING- ANOXIA- DEAD- SUFFOCATED
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 10/09/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Beds, Blankets
PT FOUND UNDER COVERS IN BED WITH MOM, R/O SISD, SENT TO CRIME LAB; CAR DIOPULMINARY ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 09/20/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Floors or flooring materials, Aquariums or accessories
PER PARAMEDICS"BOY FOUND IN PUDDLE OF WATER",LEFT WITH GRANDMOM WHO WA S DRINKING,BROKEN FISH TANK IN HOUSE,WATER ON FLOOR,POSS CHEST COMPRESD
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 09/06/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Chairs
PATIENT BEING FED, MOM LEFT ON CHAIR AND RETURNED 2 MINUTES LATER TO FI ND UNRESPONSIVE; FULL ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 08/24/2002	Age: 8 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Submersion
Product: Built-in swimming pools, Sliding glass doors or panels
PT CRAWLED THROUGH AN OPEN GLASS SLIDING DOOR AT HOME FOUND AT THE BOTT OM OF A BUILT IN GROUND SWIMMING POOL SUBMERSION DOA
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 08/14/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: General home or room involvement in fires
PT IN HOUSE FIRE, FOUND UNRESPONSIVE W/ BURNS. ACUTE SMOKE INHALATION, CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST W/ DEATH & PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN@
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 07/26/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Submersion
Product: Swimming pools
FOUND AT BOTTOM OF POOL DX. DROWNING-DEATH
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 07/20/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Submersion
Product: Built-in swimming pools
WAS AT PARTY AT FRIEND'S HOUSE, JUMPED INTO DEEP END OF POOL, COULDN'T SWIM, EXPIRED IN ED AFTER NUMEROUS RESUS ATTEMPTS DX: DROWNING, DOA
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 07/15/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
PATIENT FOUND UNRESPONSIVE AT 8:45 A.M. AFTER BEING PUT TO BED ON STOMA CH AT MIDNIGHT; DX: SIDS
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 07/11/2002	Age: 8 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Waterbeds or water pillows
PATIENT FOUND UNRESPONSIVE WHEN SLEEPING ON PARENT'S WATERBED, PT. NOT BREATHING, NO PULSE; SUDDEN DEATH
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 07/01/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Cribs
PT SIX WEEK OLD, FOUND DEAD IN CRIB AFTER BEING PLACED FACE DOWN FOR NA P IN CRIB, CARDIO PULMONARY ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 06/23/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Submersion
Product: Swimming pools
3YOM FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN POOL. DX: UNSUCCESSFUL CARDIOPULMONARY RESU SCITATION
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 06/20/2002	Age: 3 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Not Stated Or Unknown
Product: Pacifiers or teething rings
3 M/O B/F BROUGHT IN DOA HAD PACIFER WITH CLIP ON ATTACHMENT AROUND NEC K WHEN FOUND BY EMS PACIFER MANUFACTOR LUVN'CARE
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 06/10/2002	Age: 11 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Blankets, Floors or flooring materials
PATIENT FOUND BY GRANDMOTHER WRAPPED IN A BLANKET ON FLOOR AT HOME UNRE SPONSIVE, NO ADULTS WERE IN THE HOUSE, STARTED CPR; CARDIAC ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 06/08/2002	Age: 12 months	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: Cribs
FOUND NOT BREATHING IN CRIB DURING HOUSEFIRE BY FIREMEN.DX: SMOKE INHAL ATION AND 10%TBSA EXPIRED FD INVOLVED
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 05/30/2002	Age: 13 months	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: Submersion
Product: Toilets
CHILD FOUND IN TOILET, UNRESPONSIVE. NONWORKCHILD DIED IN ER
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 05/05/2002	Age: 4 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
PT WAS SLEEPING WITH MOTHER AND 4 YEAR OLD SIBLING IN MOMS BED - MOM AW OKE WITH 4 YEAR OLD ON TOP OF PT - PT WAS LIFELESS. D: CARDIOPULMANAR
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 05/03/2002	Age: 14 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches, Pillows
PT WAS ON HER STOMACH ON THE COUCH WITH HER FACE FACING THE PILLOWS - P T BLUE & NOT BREATHING. D: EXPIRED (H/O BRAIN DAMAGE,DEV DELAY, HYPOT
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 04/28/2002	Age: 5 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
MOM BREAST FED PT @0200 & @ 0600 MOM FOUND FOAM & SOME CLEAR FLUID & SO ME BLOOD COME OUT OF NOSE - ALL FAMILY MEMBERS SLEEP ON ONE BED TOGETHE
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 04/12/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
PT HAD BEEN LAID DOWN ON BED WHILE FATHER WENT TO TAKE SHOWER - WHEN DA D CAME OUT OF SHOWER PT WAS LYING FACE DOWN ON BED & UNRESPONSIVE. D:
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 04/07/2002	Age: 2 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Cribs
PT WAS LEFT IN MIDDLE OF CRIB LYING ON STOMACH WHILE MOTHER PREPARED HE R BATH - MOM WENT TO ROOM & PT HAD STOPPED CRYING & BREATHING. D: EXPI
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 02/27/2002	Age: 19 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Chemicals
PT INGESTED CHEMICAL POTASSIUM MANGANATE. DX: CUASTIC INJURY, UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION, RESPITORY ARREST.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 02/25/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Rope or string
PLAYING W/ KIDS, FOUND W/ ROPE AROUND NECK DX: CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 02/25/2002	Age: 20 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Submersion
Product: Bathtubs or showers
LEFT UNATTENDED IN TUB - DROWNEDDX: DROWNING
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 02/24/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: Lighters, Mattresses
FULL ARREST/SMOKE INHALATION-HOUSEFIRE-TWIN BROTHER PLAYING W/ A LIGHTE R-CAUGHT MATTRESS ON FIRE-SISTER DEAD @ THE SCENE-FD PRESENT
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 02/22/2002	Age: 1 months	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: Other
Product: Ceilings and walls, Beds
INFANT (DOB: *****) FOUND BETWEEN WALL AND BED. HAD BEEN ASLEEP ON MOM'S CHEST & MOM FELL ASLEEP. D:DEATH.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 02/11/2002	Age: 17 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Submersion
Product: Bathtubs or showers
PT WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN A BATHTUB. SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE. UNSURE
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 01/26/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Submersion
Product: Swimming pools
FOUND IN OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL BY THE BABYSITTER, HAD BEEN THERE ? AMT OF TIME. DROWNING, DEATH IN THE ED.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 01/23/2002	Age: 7 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
PT HAD LAID DOWN ON BED WITH MOTHER FOR A NAP AND WAS DISCOVERED U NRESPOSIVE . D: CARDIAC ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 01/11/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Beds
PATIENT FOUND NOT BREATHING AND UNRESPONSIVE IN BED BY MOM, CPR PE RFORMED IN ROUTE TO ED; RESP/CARDIAC ARREST, DOB - *****
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 01/08/2002	Age: 1 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Convertible beds, hideaway beds or sofa beds
PT DOB ***** WAS SLEEPING ON HIDE A BED W/DAD AND WAS FOUND NOT BREATHING. DX: INFANT DEATH, PROB SIDS.
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 01/05/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: General home or room involvement in fires
ANOXIA, RESPIRATORY ARREST - FOUND IN BASEMENT OF TOWNHOUSE INVOLV ED IN A FIRE, CHILD DID NOT SURVIVE, FIRE DEPARTMENT DID ATTEND
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 01/05/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Anoxia
Product: General home or room involvement in fires
ANOXIA, RESPIRATORY ARREST - CHILD FOUND IN BASEMENT OF TOWNHOUSE INVOLVED IN A FIRE, CHILD DID NOT SURVIVE, FIRE DEPARTMENT ATTENDED
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

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