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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 903
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/21/2002 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| FB BILAT EYES. A PAINT JAR FELL AND SPLASHED IN PT'S EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT HAD FACE PAINTING DONE, DEVELOPED A RASH AT SITE, CONTACT DERMATITIS FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT GOT A FLECK OF PAINT IN HIS LEFT EYE AT HOME APPROXIMATELY 2030 DX FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2002 | Age: 2 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, Windowsills or frames |
| ADMITTED WITH HIGH LEAD LEVEL POSSIBLY FROM CHEWING ON WINDOW SILL PAIN T DX: LEAD POIONING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/21/2002 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT SPLASHED PAINT OVER HER FACE, HANDS & CHEST @ THE STORE. ACUTE CORNE AL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Aerosol containers |
| SPRAYED *** PRIMER INTO L EYECORNEAL ABRASION CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 4 YOM HAD BEEN WITH HIS FATHER WHILE THE DAD WAS PAINTING; SHORTLY AFT ER DEVELOPED LABORED BREATHING FELT TO BE D/T PAINT. PATIENT EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2002 | Age: 13 months | 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, Ceilings and walls |
| PT EATING PAINT OFF WALLS @GRANDMOMS HOUSE FOR UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME, INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| CHEMICAL BURN IN EYEBALL WHEN SPRAYED ENGINE ENAMEL IN EYEBALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2002 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Beds |
| VIA EMS, POLICE, INFANT FOUND ON BED & MOTHER WAS SNIFFING BED AT FOOT OF BED. STONG SMELL PAINT (SPRAY). DX; HX EXPOSURE PAINT FUMES/ NL EXAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2002 | Age: 16 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| HAD BLOOD TEST & HAD 2.9 LEAD LEVEL IN BLOOD- TOLD TO COME TO E.D.- POSSIBLE LEAD BASED PAINT IN HOME. DX: ABNORMAL LEAD LEVEL, NON-TOXIC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2002 | Age: 3 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 |
| PATIENT POSSIBLY INGESTED PAINT AT NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, VOMITING, COULD NO T FIND PAINT OR SOURCE OF PAINT TO INGEST; POSSIBLE PAINT INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2002 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Ceilings and walls |
| CHILD INGESTED SOME PAINT CHIPS UNKNOWN AMOUNT PAINT FROM WALL.DX NO EV IDENCE OF LEAD INGESTION/ PAINT CHIP INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2002 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 23MO OLD M SPRAYED VARNISH IN EYE CHEMICAL INSULT-EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2002 | Age: 5 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT EXPOSED TO FUMES FROM PAINTING HOUSE, WHEEZING, DIFFICULTY BREA THING; ASTHMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2002 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT HAD PAINT CHIP IN EYE WHILE AT ***; FB FLUSHED FROM EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2002 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Nonelectric razors or shavers |
| HAD PAINT ON LT FOREARM, TOOK A RAZOR BLADE AND SCRAPED IT OFF. REDNESS AND SWELLING. DX; ABR LT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2002 | Age: 11 months | 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 |
| ATE CHIPPED PAINT OFF OF HOUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2002 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PATIENT HAS INCREASED LEAD LEVEL, LIVES IN OLD HOUSE, WAS RECENTLY PAIN TED WITH GLOSSY PAINT; DX: INCREASED LEAD LEVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2002 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Metal containers |
| BUMP TO HEAD; METAL CAN OF PAINT FELL AND HIT PT ON HEAD. D: MINOR CL OSED HEAD TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2002 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Male | 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 WITH PAINT CHIP INGESTION/LEAD PAINT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2002 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | 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, Metal containers |
| PT GOT INTO A CAN OF PAINT WITH PAINT OVER HANDS/FACE/MOUTH IN MATTERO F SCONDS, POSS INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2002 | Age: 11 months | 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 |
| FOUND PLAYING IN SHERWIN WILLIAMS HI-GLOSS PAINT AT HOME, HAD SOME ON F ACE AND MOUTH, MAY HAVE SWALLOWED SOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2002 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| OIL BASE PAINT CAME IN CONTACT W/CHILD'S FACE AT 7PM. DX. BILATERAL CHE MICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2002 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PAINT CHIP INGESTION - PT ATE PAIN CHOPS @ GRANDMOTHERS HOUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 INHALED FUMES FROM SPRAY PAINT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| GOT PAINT CHIP IN EYEBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2002 | Age: 19 months | 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 |
| 19 MON OLD W FEMALE W/POISONING. PT TOOK A MOUTH FULL OF ***, RUST PROO F PAINT @ HOME. E8616 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2002 | Age: 3 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 |
| LOOSE LEAD PAINT CHIPS IN HOUSE LEAD TO TOXIC LEVEL OF LEAD POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/13/2002 | Age: 23 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, House repair or construction materials |
| ? LEAD INGESTION-PARENT'S CONCERNED BECAUSE A PIECE OF PAINTED PLASTER IS MISSING FROM WALL BY PT'S CRIB-FEAR PT MAY HAVE EATEN THE PIECE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2002 | Age: 10 months | 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 |
| LATEX PAINT INGESTION, MOM PAINTING WITH SEMI-GLOSS PAINT, TURNED AROUND, CHILD HAD PAINT AROUND LIPS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2002 | Age: 16 months | 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, Paintbrushes or rollers, manual |
| PTS.MOTHER REPORTED PT.INGESTED PAINT FROM PAINTBRUSH DX-POSSIBLE INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2002 | Age: 9 months | 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 |
| PATIENT ATE INTERIOR HOUSE PAINT OFF A PAINT STICK. DX-INGESTION LATEX PAINT WITH NAUSEA AND VOMITING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2002 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT DUMPED OIL BASED PAINT STAIN ON ENTIRE BODY, HAD SOME IN HIS MOUTH. D: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF PAINT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2002 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| MOM FOUND CHILD PLAYING IN PAINT YESTERDAY HAD IT ON HANDS AND FAC E, NOW WITH RASH ON FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2002 | Age: 12 months | 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 PUTS HANDS IN PAINT AND THEN IN MOUTH & BRIEFLY SUCKED. HAD LUNCH & VOMITED. DX: PAINT INGESTION (MILD) . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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