Accidents - Plastic wrapping products - Year 2007

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,113
See also: Other years, Other products.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	308
6-15 years old:	184
16-25 years old:	70
26-50 years old:	308
50+ years old:	240

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Internal:	365	Finger:	311
Eyeball:	93	Upper Trunk:	80
Lower Arm:	69	Neck:	69
Elbow:	40	Ear:	26
Face:	15	Mouth:	15
Wrist:	15	Head:	6
Lower Trunk:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/31/2007	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT WITH LAC TO FINGER FROM THE METAL AREA OF *** CONTAINER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Plastic wrapping products
FRIENDS WRAPPED HIM UP IN *** AND HE TRIPPED AND FELL DX: CHI, INTRACRA NIAL HEMORRHAGE; ADMITTED TO ICU
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/09/2007	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
22 MO OLD MALE HAS NOT WANTED TO EAT FOR ABOUT A WEEK, BROTHER SAW A PI PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAP IN THE BACK OF PT'S THROAT. DX: FB RT TONSIL-REM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/29/2007	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic wrapping products
STUCK PLASTIC WRAPPER IN EYE SND SUSTAINED AN ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2007	Age: 78 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT WITH THROAT PAIN WHICH BEGAN 2 WEEKS AGO S/P POSSIBLY EATING A PIECE OF PLASTIC FROM A WRAPPER. SAW PCP. CONTINUED PAIN.D:THROAT IRRITATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/06/2007	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
DENTAL FB-PLASTIC SALES TAG CAUGHT BEWTEEN TEETH-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2007	Age: 49 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT SUSTAINED LAC TO FACE WHEN A *** BOX FELL AND HIT HER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2007	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CONTUSED EYE WHEN HIT WITH PLASTIC WRAPPER OF CANDY BAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2007	Age: 10 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
SWALLOWED PLASTIC WRAP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/29/2007	Age: 9 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PHARNYX FB-CHOKING ON CLEAR PLASTIC WRAPPER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2007	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Containers
BOX OF *** FELL ONTO PT'S WRIST W/SERRATED EDGE CUTTING HIM. DX: LWBS. DX: LWBS.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 09/22/2007	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
FB EAR, PIECE OF *** REMOVED FROM EAR CANAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/18/2007	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Microwave ovens
L 4TH FING BURN/17YOM TAKING SOMETHING OUT OF MICROWAVE WITH ***AND POK ED IT WITH FINGER AND STEAM ESCAPED BURNING FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/18/2007	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
LACERATION TO RIGHT INDEX FINGER WITH A ***. DX: CUT RIGHT INDE X FINGE R
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/10/2007	Age: 11 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT SWALLOWED THE PLASTIC WRAPPER OFG A PIECE OF CANDY GOT CAUGHT IN TH ROST STARTED TO CHOKE FB ASPIRATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/19/2007	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CHOKED ON PLASTIC WRAPPER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/18/2007	Age: 48 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
FOREIGN BODY THROAT-C/O DISCOMFORT AND PAIN TO THROAT AFTER ACCIDENTALL Y SWALLOWING A PLASTIC CANDY WRAPPER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/06/2007	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CUT FINGER ON *** BOX, SERRATED EDGE, AT HOME. DX: LACERATION OF FING ER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2007	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
INGESTED PLASTIC WRAP. DX FB SWALLOWED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/31/2007	Age: 8 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
ASPIRATED PLASTIC WRAPPER
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/03/2007	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CUT ARM ON A *** BLADE RIGHT FOREARM LACERATION RIGHT FOREARM LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2007	Age: 9 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
SWALLOWED PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2007	Age: 36 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PATIENT STATES THAT A ROLL OF PLASTIC FELL ON HER AND DX WITH CHEST CON TUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2007	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Foods
PT WAS BITING PFF PLASTIC WRAPPER OF ***, WHEN SHE SWALLOWED A QUARTER- SIZED PIECE OF WRAPPER.BREATHING HARD.. DX: PHARYNGEAL FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2007	Age: 9 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Floors or flooring materials
PT WAS CRAWLING ON THE FLOOR, AT HOME, & PICKED UP PIECE OF ***WRAPPER, & PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH, STARTED COUGHING & GAGGING. DX: INGES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/25/2007	Age: 11 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PATIENT SWALLOWED A PIECE OF PLASTIC WRAPPING. DX- INGESTED PLASTIC.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 05/14/2007	Age: 10 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
SWALLOWED PLASTIC WRAP FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/12/2007	Age: 9 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT CHOKED ON A PLASTIC WRAPPER. DX: CHOKING EPISODE, PHARYNGEAL ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/06/2007	Age: 15 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT POKED HERSELF IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH A PLASTIC TIE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/12/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
CHOKED ON PLASTIC WRAP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/27/2007	Age: 68 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products, Cardboard products
PT PRESENTED WITH LACERATION TO LEFT LITTLE FINGER FROM CUTTING SELF ON *** BOX, METAL EDGE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/24/2007	Age: 36 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
36 YOF RECEIVED LAC TO R ELBOW FROM CUTTER ON *** BOX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
MOM WAS DOING PT'S HAIR, & NOTICED A WHITE OBJECT IN LT EAR DX: FOREIGN BODY IN EAR- REMOVED, PIECE OF ***
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2007	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
2 YOM PUT A *** PACKING PEANUT INTO RIGHT EAR YESTERDAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2007	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT SCREAMING IN PAIN WHILE HAVING BOWEL MOVEMENT MOM EXAMINED RECTAL AR EA, SOMETHING COMING OUT OF RECTUM; SALAMI WRAPPER REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/03/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
PT INGESTED PART OF A COOKIE WRAPPER. DX FB INGESTION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2007	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic wrapping products
WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN PLASTIC WRAP AND LACERATED THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/2007	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Plastic wrapping products
POSS FB ASPIRATION @SHOE STORE-HAD SHEET OF PLASTIC FOAM THAT HAD WRAPP ED AROUND SHOES IN MOUTH & INGESTED PART OF FOAM WRAPPER, FB TRACHEA
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

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