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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,230
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/08/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 40 YOM SPLASHED PAINT THINNER IN EYES CAUSING CHEMICAL CONJUCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2004 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 32 YO PAINT THINNER PLASHED IN EYES CONJUNCTIVITIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Metal containers |
| PT POURED PAINT THINNER ON CAMPFIRE & CAN EXPLODED. FD NS.DX: SECOND DEG BURNS 20% TBSA. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/23/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Containers |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY SWALOWED PAINT THINNER THINKING IT WAS HIS WATER JUG AC CIDENTAL POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/19/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| DRANK A SMALL AMOUNT OF PAINT THINNER DX. HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/18/2004 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 70 YOF PAINT THINNER SPLASHED INTO EYE CONJUCTIVITIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| INGESTED PAINT THINNER |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 08/29/2004 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT. USED PAINT THINNER WEDS, NAUSEA SINCE THURSDAY WITH ONE EPISODE OF VOMITING FEELING DIZZY. DX. ACUTE HA, NAUSEA, DIZZINESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2004 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 28 YOM STATES HE WAS EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER 3 DAYS AGO. CLAIMS HE INHALED IT. HAS HAD 2 BRIEF EPISODES OF L CHEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| GOT PAIN THINNER SPLASHED IN EYES AND SUSTAINED A CORNEAL ABRASION AND CHEMICAL BURN TO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, First aid equipment |
| HAND CHEMICAL BURNS-@ HOME-SPILLED PAINT THINNER ON ACE WRAP ON HIS HAN D-THEN TRIED TO LIGHT A MATCH-BURNED ON FLAMES-FD NOT STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2004 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| CHEMICAL INSULT TO EYE-SPLASHED *** LACQUER THINNER IN EYE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2004 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PAINT THINNER SPLASHED IN EYE, WAS WEARING CONTACTS DX CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2004 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PATIENT ACCIDENTALLY DAUSED IN PAINT THINNER 6 YR OLD BROTHER SPILLED PATIENT COVERED HEAD TO TOE WITH PAINT THINNER. DX. HYDROCARBON CON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Nonglass bottles or jars |
| ACCIDENTLY SWALLOWED PAINT THINNER THAT WAS IN AN ARROWHEAD WATER BOTTL E DX: HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2004 | Age: 3 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 3 YOM DRANK PAINT THINNER POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2004 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT CAME TO THE ED AFTER INHALING PAINT THINNER FUMES TO GET HIGH- DEVEL OPED DIZZINESS HEADACHE AND DYSPNEA- INHALTION OF NOXIOUS FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/25/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT. WAS EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER THIS WEEKEND WHILE BASEMENT WAS BEING PAINTED, PT. VOMITING. DX; PAINT THINNER EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT BROKE OUT IN RASH EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER. DX: ALLERGIC DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2004 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| POSSIBLE CHEMICAL BURN WHEN GOT PAINT THINNER IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT DRANK PAINT THINNER. D: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF PAINT THINNER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2004 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Tableware and accessories |
| PATIENT CAME TO MOM HOLDING *** CUP CONTAINING PAINT THINNER, UNSUREOF INGESTION, HAD SOME ON COAT, LIPS, HANDS; INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2004 | Age: 31 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT AGITATED, HALLUCINATING, PSYCHOTIC AFTER SNIFFING PAINT THINNER. TES TS POSITIVE FOR AMPHETAMINE & THC. D: POLYSUBSTANCE ABUSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2004 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT MISTAKE FOR MILK PT DRANK PAINT LACQUER THINNER DX NON TOXIC LACQUE R THINNER INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2004 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT INHALING LACQUER THINNER STRAIGHT FOR TWO DAYS DEVELOPED SEVERE HEAD ACHE AND NAUSEA INHALATION OF TOXIC SUBSTANCE |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 03/04/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Metal containers |
| INGESTION INADVERTANT OR ACCIDENTAL - 2 YOM DRANK LACQUER THINNER THATW AS IN A ***S COFFEE CAN, VOMITED 3-4 TIMES SMALL AMOUNT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| SWALLOWED A MOUTHFUL OF PAINT THINNER DX: HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2004 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| GOT PAINT THINNER IN EYE - CHEMICAL CORNEAL BURN - CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVI TIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PATIENT HAD PAINT THINNER SPLASH INTO EYES AT HOME. DX: CORNEAL ABRASIONS/CHEMICAL TO EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2004 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| CHEMICAL EXPOSURE FROM USING ORANGE SAFE PAINT THINNER TO HANDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Pipes |
| IGNITED LAQUER THINNER WHILE LIGHTING PIPE, WAS WEARING A RUBBER GLOVE ON L HAND. DX. BURNS L HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF PAINT THINNER. D: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF PAI NT THINNER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/03/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT. HAD CONJUNCTIVITIS AND ACUTE PAIN TO EYE WHEN HE SPLASHED PAINTTHIN NER IN HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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