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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 694
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/27/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| SHOCKED TOUCHING LIGHT SWITCH DX. ELECTRICAL SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK - 26 YOF SUSTAINED AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK FROM A LIGHT SW ITCH WITHOUT COVER LAST NIGHT, POWER WENT OUT JUST AFTERWARDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT TURNED ON A WALL SWITCH AT HOME AND IT SPARKED, DX ELECTRICAL SHOCK TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Fans |
| PT TOUCHED ELECTRIC WIRE 110V FROM BATHROOM FAN. DX: ELECTRIC SHOCK L HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT SUST ELECTRIC SHOCK TO HAND ON A SWITCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2005 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK, GRABBED ELECTRIC WIRE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2005 | Age: 51 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: Other |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT WAS BEHIND MONASTERY IN WOODED AREA , PULLING UP ELECTRICAL WIRING F OUND DOWN DX SYCOPE VS SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT DOING HOME ELECTRICAL WORK UNDER HOUSE WHEN ELECTROCUTED ELECTROCUTION PSVT |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/17/2005 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| CHEST PAIN,HOUSE POSSIBLY OLD WIRING IN HOUSES, FUSES BLEW OFTEN, FIRE, FD ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2005 | Age: 25 years | 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT SUSTAINED ELECTRICAL SHOCK TO ARM YESTERDAY WHEN PLACING A SURGE PRO TECTOR. D: MUSCLE INJURY, TRICEPS, POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SHOCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2005 | Age: 23 years | 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT C/O ELECTRIC SHOCK WHEN REACHING FOR LIGHT SWITCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| ELECTRICAL SHOCK - 33 YOF RECEIVED A SHOCK WHEN TOUCHING A FAULTY LIGHT SWITCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2005 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Pipes |
| ACCIDENTAL ELECTRICUTION: FIXING WATER PIPE AT HOME 1 HR AGO HIT WIRE L SIDE OF HEAD, THINKS 110 VOLTS, POSSIBLE 220 VOLTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Burns, Elec |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT INTOXICATED, TOUCHED 277 DC VOLT WIRE, NOW HAS CHEST DISCOMFORT AND NUMBNESS IN LT HAND, ELECTRIC SHOCK INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| TOUCHED 110 VOLTS WIRE W/HANDS, DIZZY, HA DX: DIZZINESS POST ELECTRICAL SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| 24 YO MALE WAS SHOCKED BY 480V WIRE ELECTRICAL SHOCK LEFT UPPER EXTREMITY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2005 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| SHOCKED BY 220 V CONNECTION + ETOH, R HAND PAIN / NUMBNESSDX ETOH INTOX ICATION, POSSIBLE ELECTRICAL SHOCK WITHOUT BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2005 | Age: 29 years | 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: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK - PATIENT RECEIVED ELECTRIC SHOCK FROM LIGHT SWITCH - PR ESENTS WITH SLURRED SPEECH AND RIGHT SIDED NECK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2005 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems, Floors or flooring materials |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK - PATIENT TOUCHED LIVE CIRCUIT (120 V) WITH BOTH HANDS- FELL TO FLOOR - BECAME DAZED - TOUCHED LIGHT SWITCH AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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