Accidents - Cigarette or pipe lighters - Year 2009 - Upper Arm

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 69
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 07/11/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Arm		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Cigarette or pipe lighters
PT WAS BURNT ON THE ARMPIT BY A LIGHTER, MOM HAD JUST LIT SOME CANDLES PICKED PT UP, LIGHTER STILL HOT, DX: BURN TO ARMPIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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