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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 800
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 21 YO M SPRAYED W/PEPPER SPRAY IN FACE LAC FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2003 | Age: 23 years | 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: Personal protection devices |
| 23 YOM SPRAYED WITH *** BY POLICE DEPARTMENT CHEMICAL INSULT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2003 | Age: 16 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT SUS BURN TO EYE BY *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2003 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 25 YO FEMALE WAS SPRAYED WITH *** IN EYES LEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT LEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/03/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT'S HOME WAS INVOLVED IN A POLICE RAID AND THEY USED A FLASH BOMB AND IT WENT OFF IN PT'S FACE DX: FOREHEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| FACIAL PAIN. PT WAS SPRAYED IN THE FACE WITH *** ACCIDENTALLY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| EYE BURN. PT WAS SPRAYED WITH PEPPER SPRAY ACCIDENTALLY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT. EXPOSED TO PEPPER SPRAY. L.W.T. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/22/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT DX *** EXPOSURE TO EYES - PT C/O DRYNESS AND STINGING TO BOTH EYES S /P HAVING *** SPRAYED IN HIS EYES THIS AM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS EYE WHEN EXPOSED TO PEPPER SPRAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 20 YO MALE SPRAYED WITH PEPPER SPRAY - FELL AND HIT HEAD HEAD INJURY - CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT AND FRIEND PLAYING WITH ***, IT WENT OFF IN FACE, CHEMICAL IRRITATIO N TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2003 | Age: 24 years | 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: Personal protection devices |
| ALCOHOL INTOXICATION - 24 YOM PRESENTS FOR PSYCH EVAL, HAD BEEN DRINKIN G BEER, AGGRESSIVE, KICKING DOORS, SPRAYED WITH *** IN EYES BY POLICE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/07/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 20 YO MALE WAS ***D ABOUT 20 MINUTES AGO CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 23 YO MALE WAS SPRAYED WITH *** IN FACE CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS - LEF T WITHOUT TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| AT *** LIGHTING CONDOMS ON FIRE. POLICE SHOWED UP AND PT BECAMEUNCONSCI OIUS. DX DRUG INGESTION. NOT STATED IF FIRE DEPT ATTENDED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| GOT SPAYED IN FACE WITH *** DX: CHEMICAL BURN TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| DX: CONJUNCTIVITIS. SPRAYED WITH PEPPER SPRAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| TOXIC EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY-IN CLASS AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| TOXIC EXPOSURE TO PEPER SPRAY-IN CLASS AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| TOXIC EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY-IN CLASS AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| TOXIC EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY-IN CLASS AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| TOXIC EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY-IN CLASS AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| TOXIC EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY-AT SCHOOL-IN CLASS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 16 YO MALE HAD PEPPER SPRAY SPRAYED IN FACE CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 16 YO FEMALE WAS PLAYING WITH PEPPER SPRAY TWO DAYS AGO AND IT SPLASHED IN FACE - CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| DX: MUCOUS MEMBRANE IRRITATION DUE TO CAPSAICIN SPRAY.SPRAYED WITH PEPP ER SPRAY WAS STANDING CLOSE AT TIME IT WAS SPRAYED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/10/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| MVA HIT HAND AGAINST GEAR SHIFT WHILE BEING CHASED BY POLICE ALSO FELL TO GROUND AFTER TAZER GUN USE + METH USE R HAND CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2003 | Age: 17 years | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT WA SPRAYED IN THE EYE WITH MAZE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT SUSTAINED CHEMICAL IRRITATION FROM PEPPER SPRAY THAT WAS SPRAYED AT CLUB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT CAUGHT IN CROWD AT CLUB, FELL, CHEST PAIN, *** USED AT CLUB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 22 years | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT CAUGHT IN CROWD AT CLUB, DX SOB, *** USED AT CLUB |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT EXPOSED TO *** AT CLUB, HEADACHE,CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT TO ER WITH C/O OF HEADACHE,NAUSEA, EXPOSED TO *** AT CLUB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| *** SPRAYED IN CLUB, STAMPEDE OCCURED,CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT IN CLUB WHERE PEPPER SPRAY WAS USED, C/O OF HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT INVOLVED IN STAMPEDE WHEN CROWD TRIED TO GET OUT OF CLUB WHERE *** H AD BEEN SPRAYED,CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT C/O OF SOB, BURNING TO CHEST, SPRAYED WITH PEPPER SPRAY IN CLUB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT IN CLUB WHERE PEPPERSPRAY WAS SPRAYED, TO ER WITH HEADACHE AND BODYA CHE(PART OF MULTIPLE CASES) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT C/O OF HEADACHE, CHEST PAIN, EXPOSED TO *** AT CLUB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT SUS *** TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| 18 YO M GOT PEPPER SPRAY IN EYECONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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