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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,135
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| SHOULDER SPASM-SPASM SINCE PAINTING-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PAIN AFTER PAINTING FOR 2DAYS RT SHOULDER/NECK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2005 | Age: 22 years | 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 |
| 6 MONTHS PREGNANT EXPOSED TO PAINT FUMES WHILE HUSBAND WAS PAINTING,HAD A SYNCOPAL EPISODE/ SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT PAINTING AT HOME AND GOT SOME PAINT IN LEFT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Painting equipment, powered |
| PT WAS PAINTING WITH A PAINT SPRAYER AND STRUCK LEFT MIDDLE FINGER LACE RATION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT. STATES SQUATTING TO PAINT YEST, STOOD UP AND FELT POP IN L KNEE. D X. SPRAIN L KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| INHALED PAINT FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT PAINTING HIS HOUSE GOT PAIN IN HIS EYES CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2005 | Age: 18 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 |
| PT FOUND DOWN UNCONSCIOUS/UNRESPONSIVE. EMPTY PAINT CANS FOUND AT SCENE . +ETOH. D:UNCONSCIOUS/UNRESPONSIVE, ETOH. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/12/2005 | Age: 24 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| 24 YO MALE WAS SCRAPING PAINT AND IT BLEW INTO EYE BILATERAL BACTERIAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2005 | Age: 18 years | 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 |
| PAINTING CAR IN CLOSED SETTING, SHORTNESS OF BREATH DX HYDROCARBON EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2005 | Age: 19 years | 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 |
| DYSPNEA, PAINTING CAR IN CLOSED SETTING DX HYDROCARBON EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| HEADACHE.PT PAINTED FUMES FROM PAINT CAUSED A HEADACHE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT HAD ABDOMINAL PAIN WHILE PAINTING LAST NIGHT, CONTINUES TODAY, UNABLE TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT; ABDOMINAL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| KNEE GAVE WAY AND HAMMED HIS R GREAT TOE UNDER PLATFORM, RAN PAINT CHIPS UNDER TOENAIL, DX; FB UNDER TOENAIL BED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2005 | Age: 19 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: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT HAD PAINT SPLASHED INTO HIS EYE WHEN HE WAS WORKING ON AN ART PROJECT. DX-LEFT CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2005 | Age: 19 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 |
| FB LEFT EYE.PT WAS SCRAPPING PAINT AND A CHIP WENT INTO PTS EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2005 | Age: 18 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 |
| LT CORNEAL AB-PAINT CHIP HIT EYE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| STEPPED IN PAINT LAST PM WHILE PAINTING DX: CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PATIENT PLAYING WITH LACQUER FLUID AT SCHOOL, ACCIDENTALLY CAUGHT ON FI RE BURNING HAND; HAND BURN, NO FD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT C/O POSSICLE BROKEN HAND. PT WAS HIT BY PAINT CAN. DX FRACT METACARP AL #5 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT DEVELOPED FEVER, RASH ON AND OFF, POSSIBLE PAINT ALLERGY, |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2005 | Age: 21 years | 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 |
| DEPRESSED, SUICIDAL, HUFFED SPRAY PAINT TODAY DX: DEPRESSION, SUICIDAL IDEATIONS, DRUG ABUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| JAMMED HER WRSIT WHILE PAINTING HIT IN CABINET DX WRIST SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| PT PAINTING HER HOUSE WAS LEANING AGAINST A GLASS WINDOW AND PUSHED RI GHT HAND THROUGH IT LACERATION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 23 years | 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 |
| PT DRINKING LAST NIGHT & USED PAINT SPRAY IN BAG & STARTED INHALING IT THIS AM. INHALATION OF PAINT SPRAY & ACUTE CEPHALGIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Ceilings and walls |
| PT PAINTING HER WALLS AT HOME WHEN SHE INHALED TH PAINT FUMES DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs, Metal containers |
| LIFTING A CAN OF PAINT FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK DX: LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| TORTICOLLIS - 24 YOF C/O STIFF NECK AND PAIN AFTER PAINTING LAST NIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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