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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 668
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2008 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT SPLASHED IN EYE WITH PAINT,SUST INJURY TO EYE# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 2 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 |
| DX HYDROCARBON INGESTION: UNK INGESTION OF WOOD CONDITIONER PRE- STAIN. ER STAFF TPXOCP;PGOST PM DUTY EVALUATED PT IN ED; PLAN 6HR OBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2008 | Age: 9 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 |
| CHILD FOUND EATING PAINT CHIPS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2008 | Age: 16 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 |
| PUT HAND IN PAINT,THEN PAINTED MOUTH DX; NON-TOXIC INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2008 | Age: 18 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 |
| 18 MO OLD INGESTION PAINT, NO LEAD IN PAINT AT HOME, WAS FOUND PLAYING IN THE PAINT. DX-ACCIDENTALLY INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2008 | Age: 12 months | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DX: INGESTED ACRYLIC PAINT ON 4TH FLOOR AT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN ART R OOM; ABD PAIN/ VOMIT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| SPRAYED ACRYLIC PAINT IN EYES. DX CHEMICAL BURN - EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2008 | Age: 3 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 LIVES IN OLD HOUSE W/ CHIPPING PAINT. GETTING LEAD LEVELS CHECKED MO NTHLY. VERY HIGH THIS MONTH 45MCG. W/ NEW SPEECH PROBS. DX LEAD POISONI |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/11/2008 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT GOT A LITTLE BIT OF PAINT IN MOUTH THEY WERE USING TO PAINT BAS EMENT,HAVING VOMITING, ACTING LETHARGIC; VOMITING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 19 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 |
| PTS MOTHER WAS PAINTING AND CHILD GOT INTO THE PAINT COVERED ALL OVER NOW CHILD ACTING BIZARRE AND LETHARGIC METABOLIC ACIDOSIS FROM PAINT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/29/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| CHILD POSSIBLY SWALLOWED PURPLE FINGER PAINT AT DAYCARE. TONGUE SWELLIN G/PAIN. D: ALLERGIC RXN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 15 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Paintbrushes or rollers, manual |
| PICKED UP A PAINT BRUSH - HAD PAINT ON IT, AND SWALLOWED SOME. DX POIS ONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| LEAD LEVEL HIGH 43-45 WHEN ADMITTED AFTER BEING EXPOSED SINCE NOVE 2007 TO HIGH LEVELS OF TESTED LEAD FROM PAINT FROM WINDOW FRAME AT APT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 12 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 |
| INGESTED PAINT FOUND WITH PAINT ON SKIN - R/O POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2008 | 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Windowsills or frames |
| PT HAS VERY HIGH LEAD LEVELS. SEEN AT PCP. PT LIVES IN VERY OLD HOUSE W ITH CRACKING PAINT ON WINDOW SILLS. PT PLAYS NEAR THEM. DX LEAD EXPOSUR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2008 | Age: 3 years | 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 |
| 3 YOF INGESTED SMALL AMOUNT OF GREEN PAINT, WAS AN INDOOR HOUSE PAINT, INGESTION, INADVERTANT OR ACCIDENTAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DX LWBS: C/O HAND BURN, FEVER; FOP CONCERNED OF BURN. REPORTS CHILD PLAYING W RED PAINT AT SCHOOL W DISTINCT LINE TO AREA, N |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 11 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 |
| WITNESSED BY MOM PT INGESTED A DIM SIZE LEAD PAINT CHIP >> RULE OUT LEAD POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2008 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| EATING PAINT CHIPS. UNKNOWN QUANTITY. PARENTS NOT SURE WHAT TYPE OF P AINT IS IN THE HOUSE. DX LEAD INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 2 YO F CHEMICAL EXPOSURE TO EYES WAS SPRAYED WITH FUSION PAINT FOR PLASTICS BY BROTHER* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT W/HX OF ASTHMA, PLAYING W/ANOTHER CHILD WHO SPRAYED WOOD RESTORER ON HER, NOW W/EYE PAIN & REDNESS; EXPOSURE TO HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 04/18/2008 | Age: 2 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 FOUND WITH PAINT CHIPS IN MOUTH AT HOME, DAD TRIED TO CLEAR OUT PAINT INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| DX URTICARIA: PT WITH HX OF LATEX ALLERGY. MOVED INTO NEW HOME THAT WAS RECENTLY PAINTED (BELIEVED TO BE LAXTEX) ONSET OF RASH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 16 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, Metal containers |
| PULLED CAN OF WOOD STAIN DOWN ON SELF;MIGHT HAVE DRANK IT. |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 01/16/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | 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, Windowsills or frames |
| PT INGESTED PAINT FROM WINDOWSILL# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Bathtubs or showers |
| PT WAS TAKING A BATH WITH CHIPPING PAINT AND HAS A CHIP OF DRY PAINT UN DER FINGERNAIL. D: FOREIGN BADY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2008 | Age: 9 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 |
| LANDLORD, PAINTING THE APT DOWN STAIRS, MOM NOTICED PAINT FUMES IN THE APT, BIB MOM FOR EVA >> PAINT FUMES EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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