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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 334
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/24/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| DX 2ND DEGREE BURNS: PT W US'G AN ACETYLENE TOURCH THIS AFTERNOON, W TO PICK IT UP OFF GROUND & BURNED HIS HAND. BLISTER'G/RADIAL 1/2 DISTAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| PT AT HOME USING A TORCH BURN TO ARM/ DX 2ND DEGREE BURN TO R FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| PT WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH AND ACCIDENTLY HIT HIS THUMB WITH IT/ BURN TO THUMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cutting torches, Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HAD A FOREIGN BODY LODGED IN AN EYE WHILE USING A CUTTING TORCH TO C UT A DUMPSTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| A WEEK AGO @ SCHOOL BURNT FOREARM ACCIDENTALLY WHEN TOUCHED THE TUBE OF BLOWTORCH, PROGRESSIVELY RED&SWELLING>> CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE TORCHING STEEL INJ BOTH EYES/ DX CORNEAL FLASH BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| PT SUST CORNEAL ABRASION USING BLOW TORCH# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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