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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 212
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/19/2010 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| 66YOM, SET A TOWEL ON FIRE, ?MECH, WHILE ETOH BINGE DRINKING >>ETOH=0.205 INTOX/ W/D |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/06/2010 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Towels or cloths, Soaps |
| 53YOF WITH SEVERE ALLERGIC RASH AFTER USING TOWEL WASHED IN NEW SOAP. DX: ALLERGIC HIVES 40% OF BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2010 | Age: 72 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| 72YOM, ON ASA, TAKING A SHOWER & ACC SCRAPED V.VEINS ONTO LEGS WHILE DR YING WITH A TOWEL>>BLEEDING VARICOSE VEINS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2010 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Towels or cloths, Detergents |
| RASH-45YOM C/O RED, ITCHY RASH ALL OVER AFTER USING A TOWEL AT A FRIEND S HOUSE. HAD BEEN WASHED IN A NEW DETERGENT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2010 | Age: 3 months | Sex: Male | Race: American Indian/Alaska Native |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| 3 MO M WAS FOUND LYING NEXT TO TOWEL NOT BREATHING. DX: CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST. |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
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