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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 231
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/13/2010 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Clothing irons |
| 29YOF SUSTAINED BURN TO BREAST WHEN SHE LEANED OVER A HOT IRON AND WAS BURNED* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2009 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothing irons, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| IRON FELL ON BACK FROM TOP SHELF CONTUSION BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Clothing irons |
| PT BURNED RT NIPPE ON IRON AT HOME. DX:RT NIPPEL 2ND DEGREE BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clothing irons |
| PT STS WHILE IRONING,HAD SEVERE SHARP STABBING PAIN TO L BREAST AREA DX CHEST WALL PAIN,L BREAST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2007 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Clothing irons |
| 29 YOF STRUCK UPPER BACK BY AN IRON THAT FELL OUT OF A CLOSET SUSTAININ G A CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clothing irons |
| PT STS IRONING, DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE WITH MOVEMENT OR DEEP BREATH, DX CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/22/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Clothing irons |
| PT BURNED HER BACK ON THE IRON |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/13/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Clothing irons, Clothing |
| PT HAD CHEST PX WHILE IRONING CLOTHES. DX: MUSKULOSKELETAL CHEST PX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Clothing irons |
| 48 YO BF - ACUTE THORACIC/ABDOMINAL MUSCLE SPRAIN/SPASM - HAS BEEN DOIN G A LOT OF IRONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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