Accidents - Batteries - 6-15 years old - Year 2006

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,308
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Internal:	622	Ear:	170
Mouth:	131	Eyeball:	125
Face:	101	Head:	65
All Of Body:	65	Finger:	15
Upper Trunk:	6	Shoulder:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/28/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWALLOWED A SMALL LITHIUM BATTERY FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/26/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWOLLOWED A BATTERY. DX FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/16/2006	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
14 Y/O M SWALLOWED WATCH BATTERY AT HOME.DX; BATTERY INGESTION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWOLLOWED A BATTERY. DX BATTERY INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2006	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Batteries, Hammers
PT WAS HITTING A BATTERY WITH A HAMMER, & BATTERY BROKE OPEN & BATTERY ACIDE HIT PT IN THE FACE & EYES. DX: LT CORNEAL ABRASION FROM BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
PLACED WATCH BATTERY IN EAR FB RT EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/17/2006	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWOLLOWED A 3 AA BATTERIES ON A DARE.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/07/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED PART OF AA BATTERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Batteries
FELL ASLEEP W/ A WATCH BATTERY IN MOUTH AWAKEN TOOK BATTERY OUT OF MOUTH BLACK SPOT IN MOUTH CHEMICAL BURNS TO MOUTH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
FB R EAR; MOTHER STATES CHILD PLAYING & GOT WATCH BATTERY STUCK IN EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/29/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Batteries, Thermometers
PT SUSTAINED CHEMCIAL BURN TO EYE WHILE PUTTING A MEAT THERMOMETER BETWEEN TWO BATTERIES THERMOMETER BURST AND BURNED EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/21/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED A WATCH BATTERY DX: FB IN STOMACH - DC STABLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT WAS DARED TO SWALLOW A WATCH BATTERY, & HE DID DX: WATCH BATTERY IN DUODENUM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Batteries
HEAD LAC, PT STRUCK W/A BATTERY THROWN BY BROTHER AT HOME, C/O PAIN, IMMEDIATE CRY, NO LOC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/08/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Batteries
PT HIT IN FOREHEAD WITH BATTERY THAT WAS THROWN TO HER, LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/05/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWOLLOWED CALCULATOR BATTERY " INGESTED FB"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/17/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED SMALL BATTERY/INGESTED FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Batteries
HIT IN HEAD W/BATTERY, ABRASION HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Batteries
EVALUATION FOR POSSIBLE MOUTH INJURY: PUT 2 BATTERIES IN MOUTH,* AA ( 0, ** AA (SLIGHTLY CORRODED)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/15/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED BATTERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2006	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Batteries, Clothing accessories
FINGERS BURNED-BURNED ON BATTERY ACID IN HER PURSE-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
DX BATTERY INGESTION AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT C/O SWALLOWED A WATCH BATTERY. DX FB INGESTION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
STUCK SMALL MAGNEFIED TOY BATTERY IN NOSE DX: F.B. (BATTERY) IN NOSE--REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2006	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWOLLOWED A BATTERY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/19/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
DX: F.B. (BATTERY) IN EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/29/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
DX: F.B. (BATTERY POWDER) IN EYE; MOM CALLED POISON CONTROL; FLUSHED EY E OUT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/19/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED BUTTON BATERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED WATCH BATTERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Batteries
PT C/O A BATTERY BLEW UP IN HIS FACE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/08/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
FOREIGN BODY IMPACTION - 10 YOM SWALLOWED A QUARTER-SIZED BATTERY THAT BECAMED LODGED IN ESOPHAGUS
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/06/2006	Age: 6 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: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWING A WATCH BATTERYFOREIGN BODY INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWOLLOWED A BATTERY. DX FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT INGESTED A BATTERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/01/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Batteries, Other sound recording, reproducing or receiving equipment
BATTERY ACID IN CD PLAYER SPRAYED IN PATIENT'S EYE AT HOME; CHEMICAL CO NJUNCTITITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWALLOWED A BATTERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Batteries
PATIENT SWALLOWED AAA BATTERY 6 DAYS AGO, WAS HIT ON BUS TODAY, HAVING CHEST PAIN; CHEST WALL PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/27/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED WATCH BATTERY, NO CHOKING, BATTERY IN INTESTINE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/24/2006	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Batteries
MOM REPORTS PT WAS PLAYING W/BATTERY W/DRY BATTERY ACID ON THE OUTSIDE OF IT, REPORTS RUBING EYES AFTER PLAYING W/BATTERY, D-CHEMICAL CONJUNC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/22/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries, Buckets or pails
PATIENT SWALLOWED AAA BATTERY AND ROCKS FROM WHITE BUCKET AT HOME, MOM FOUND HIM LIMP; FB INGESTION/NEAR SYNCOPE, BATTERY IN STOMACH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2006	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED SMALL BATTERY/INGESTED FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/20/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Batteries
PT @ SCHOOL ANOTHER STUDENT WAS OPENING A D-CELL BATTERY, BATTERY FLUID SPLASHED ONTO PT'S L EYE AND FACE FLUSHED WITH H2O. DX ACID BURN TO EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/10/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: Batteries
PT'S BROTHER THREW A BATTERY AND HIT PT IN RIGHT EYE, HEMMORRHAGE TO RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Batteries
PT WAS STRUCK IN THE FACE WITH A BATTERY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2006	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PATIENT SWALLOWED A BUTTON BATTERY, BATTERY AT GASTRIC OUTLET; FB INGES TION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/20/2006	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWALLOWED A BATTERY; FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 03/16/2006	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
PT PUT A SMALL ROUND BATTERY IN LEFT EAR FOREIGN BODY EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2006	Age: 11 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Batteries
PT WIPED LIQUID LEAKING FROM BATTERY ON FACE DX: CHEMICAL BURN TO FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/09/2006	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT SWOLLOWED A BATTERY. DX BATTERY INGESTION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/20/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Batteries
PT PLACED A SMALL BATTERY IN LEFT EAR; PAIN TO EAR SINCE. D: LEFT EAR FOREIGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/15/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
SWALLOWED A BUTTON CELL BATTERY. POISON CONTROL NOTIFIED. DS. SWALLOWE D FOREIGN BODY IN INTESTINES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2006	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Batteries, Animal induced injury
PT. HAS SHOULDER PAIN AFTER FORCEFULLY THROW'G BATTERIES @ A CAT. PAINW / MOVEMENT. PAIN INTERFERES W/ SLEEP. DX.: SHOULDER SPRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/07/2006	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries, Laser pointers
ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOWED ONE LASER POINTER VS WATCH BATTERY,DRANK H2O&"** *" (SPORTS DRINK) SINCE THEN W/O PROBLEMS,+HEARTBURN; SWALLOWED FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/2006	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
PT INGESTED 2 AA BATTERIES. DX FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/02/2006	Age: 7 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Batteries
FB INGESTION, PARENTS ST PT SWALLOWED A SMALL BATTERY AT HOME, NO REC OF PAIN, CRAMPS, X-RAYS SHOWS IT STOMACH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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