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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 470
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/25/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| SUST BURN TO FACE R SIDE OF NECK AND CHEST FROM PRESSURE COOKER ABT 36% BSA DX 2 DEG BURNS TO FACE NECK CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| 1% BURNS TO FACE.PT LIFTED LID OF PRESSURE COOKER AND BURNED FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| PT DX 2ND DEGREE BURN TO FACE LT CORNEAL ABRASION - C/O BURNED BY STEAM FROM PRESSURE COOKER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED IN FACE CAUSING FIRST DEGREE BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED BURNS TO UPPER TORSO PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN TO UPPER TORSO DP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| 45 YO BRUN ON ARM FROM STEAM FROM PRESSURE COOKER BURN FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2007 | Age: 32 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, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| 32 YO BURN TO ARM FROM PRESSURE COOKER BURN FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| PRESSURED COOKER EXPLODED TRYING TO OPEN IT " RUE BURN'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: 25 - 50% Body | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| PT WITH SEVERE BURNS TO CHEST, NECK, ARMS FROM EXPLODING PRESSURE COOKER, CONTENTS BURNED PT, PT HELICOPTERED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 06/24/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: 25 - 50% Body | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| PT WITH SEVERE BURNS TO CHEST, ARMS FROM EXPLODED PRESSURE-COOKER PT HELICOPTERED TO ANOTHER FACILITY |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/28/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| 43 YO BURN TO CHEST FROM JUICES FROM THE PRESSURE COOKER BURN CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners, Hot water |
| PRESSURE COOKER EXPLODED WHEN OPENED, PATIENT WAS BURNED WITH HOT WATER. DX-BURNS ABDOMINAL, BREAST AND FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| PT RECEIVED CORNEAL INJURY FROM STEAM WHEN COOKING POTAOTES IN PRESSURE COOKER AND WHEN TOOK LID OFF THE STEAM HIT EYE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2007 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners |
| BIL THIGH AND ABD BURNS. PT WAS USING A PRESSURE COOKER WHEN STEAM EXP LODED OUT BURNING PT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2007 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Pressure cookers or canners, Hot water |
| PT WAS USING PRESSURE COOKER, WHEN IT EXPLODED, HOT WATER HIT FACE, RECIEVED 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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