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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 657
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PATIENT EXPOSED TO PEPPER SPRAY SPRAYED IN ROOM AT SCHOOL, DIFFICULTY B REATHING, VOMITING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| SOMEONE SPRAYED PEPPER SPRAY AT SCHOOL CHEMICAL SPRAY EXPOSURE SECONDARY TO BRONCHOSPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PT STATES WAS SPRAYED IN FACE WITH *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2002 | Age: 16 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| SHOCKED ON BASE OF SKULL X 2 AND NECK X 1 WITH STUN GUN 1 HR PTA-DX-ELE CTRICAL SHOCK FROM STUN GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2002 | Age: 20 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 |
| PATIENT MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO "AIRBOURNE TOXIN" AT RESTAURANT. POSSI BLY ***. HAS CHEST TIGHTNESS. INTENT UNKNOWN. LEFT PRIOR TO MED SCREEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/05/2002 | 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 |
| PATIENT MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO "AIRBOURNE TOXIN" AT RESTAURANT. POSSI BLY ***. HAS CHEST TIGHTNESS. ?INTENT LEFT PRIOR TO MEDICAL SCREENING |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/05/2002 | Age: 23 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 |
| PATIENT MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO "AIRBOURNE TOXIN" AT RESTAURANT. POSSI BLY ***. PAIN WITH INSPIRATION. ?INTENT. LEFT PRIOR TO MEDICAL SCREEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 09/28/2002 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices, Windows or window glass |
| 1 MONTH OLD FEMALE WAS IN ROOM WHEN PEPPER SPRAY WAS SPRAYED IN THEWIND OW BRONCHIAL SPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2002 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | 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 HOME-GOT SPRAYED IN FACE ACCIDENTLY BY OLDER SIBLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PATIENT HAVING BREATHING DIFFICULTY WHEN BREATHING PEPPER SPRAY AT BLOC KBUSTER STORE, COUGHING; RESPIRATORY DIFFICULTY, CHEMICAL IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| EXPOSED TO PEPPER SPRAY THIS AM. NO RESP DIFF. DX; NORMAL EXAM AFTER EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| EXPOSED TO PEPPER SPRAY THIS AM. NO RESP DIFF. MILD RASH ON TORSO. DX; NORMAL EXAM AFTER EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| EXPOSED TO PEPPER SPRAY THIS AM. NO RESP PROBS. FUSSY. DX; NORMAL EXAM AFTER EXPOSURE TO PEPPER SPRAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| COUGH AND TRACHOSPASM SECONDARY TO PEPPER SPRAY - WAS PEPPER SPRAYEDNOW COUGHING SECONDARY TO PEPPER SPRAY EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2002 | 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: Personal protection devices |
| PT ACCIDENTLY INHALED *** THAT WAS SPRAYED AT FRIENDS HOME NOW PT DIZZY W HA ABD PAIN SOB DX CHEMICAL INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| PEPPER SPRAY TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2002 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| INFANT SPRAYED IN FACE WITH PEPPER SPRAY BY OLDER SIBLING. INITIALLY HAD DIFFICULTY BREATHING, BUT FINE NOW. D: TOXIC EXPOSURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2002 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Personal protection devices |
| SPRAYED PEPPER SPRAY ON SELF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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