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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,840
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2002 | Age: 33 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: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| 33 YO M MIXED AMONIA & *** ACCIDENTALLY, COUGHING, EYES BURNING. DX IRR ITANT INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2002 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PATIENT WAS PASSENGER OF CAR THAT HAD INGREDIATES FOR MAKING METH THAT SPILLED (AMONIA - ANHYGROUS) AND WRECKED. DX INHALATION OF ANHYGROUS, |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 11/17/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| 43 YO MALE MIXED BLEACH AND AMMONIA TOGETHER TOXIC FUME EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2002 | Age: 33 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: Ammonia, household |
| AMMONIA SPLASHED IN EYE OF 33 YO MALE CORNEAL ABRASION - CHEMICAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2002 | Age: 38 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: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL INHALATION, EXPOSURE - 38 YOF WAS CLEANING BATHROOM AND SPRAYE D COMBINATION OF AMMONIA AND BLEACH, BECAME OVERWHELMED BY FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2002 | Age: 21 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: Ammonia, household |
| PATIENT WITH ASTHMA FLARE-UP SINCE BEING EXPOSED TO TO DUST AND AMMONIA WHILE CLEANING APARTMENT 2 WEEKS AGO. D:ASTHMA EXACERBATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| DRANK SMALL AMOUTH OF ***AMMONIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| INHALED FUMES FROM BLEACH AND AMMONIA COMBINATION DX. INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Tables |
| PT STATES HE WAS EXPOSED AND INHALED COMBINATION OF AMMONIA & *** THAT SPILLED ON THE TABLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| WALKED INTO APARTMENT BEING CLEANED W/ AMMONIA FEELS A BURNING IN THROAT & NOSE. DX: ACUTE BILAT FRONTAL SINUSITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| ADVERSE REACTION TO AMMONIA WHEN CLEANING AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2002 | Age: 3 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| 3YOF-ACCIDENTAL POISONING-DRANK A LITTLE BIT OF AMONIA AT HOME-MOTHER G AVE MILK PRIOR TO ARRIVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| RESIDENT OF JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER SPLASHED AMMONIUM CHLORIDE IN EYE / CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2002 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | 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: Ammonia, household |
| INHALED AMMONIA FUMES, DX: CHEMICAL INHALATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| MOTHER BRINGS CHILD TO ER AFTER INGESTION OF HOUSEHOLD DISINFECTANT INGESTION OF AMMONIUM CHLORIDE |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 07/24/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PT. DROPPED A BOTTLE OF AMONIA AND IT SPLASHED UP AND GOT IN HER EYES CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2002 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL FUME EXPOSURE-EXPOSED TO FUMES OF AMMONIA MIXED WITH BLEACH. C /O BURNING NOSE, WATERY EYES AND COUGH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2002 | 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: Ammonia, household |
| SWALLOWED A SMALL AMOUNT OF AMMONIA DX. INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| EXPOSED TO MIXTURE AMMONIA & BLEACH, WHILE CLEANING BASEMENT W/ BACKUP SEWAGE. ACUTE CHEMICAL EXPOSURE, R/O PNEUMONITIS@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2002 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Pine oil cleaning and disinfectant preparations |
| PT MIXED AMMONIA AND *** CLEANER AND INHALED THE FUMES WENT INTO BRONCH OSPASMS ANOXIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | 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: Ammonia, household, Bottles or jars |
| PT DRANK FROM WATER BOTTLE THAT CONTAINED AMMONIA, INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2002 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PT C/O COUGH AFTER USING AMMONIA - NO DX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2002 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PATIENT SPLASHED IN EYES AND FACE BY AMONIA JEWELRY CLEANER AT HOME, MO M FLUSHED EYES WITH WATER, EYES RED; CHEMCIAL IRRITATION, EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2002 | Age: 33 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: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| MIXED AMMONIA AND BLEACHCHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PT HAD *** SPRAYED IN EYE BY FRIEND WHILE PLAYING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2002 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Windows or window glass |
| F.B. BOTH EYES WAS USING AMMONIA TO WASH WINDOWS AND SPLASHED IT IN BOT H EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2002 | Age: 44 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| PT WAS CLEANING WITH AMMONIA AND BLEACH DX: NOXIOUS GAS INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2002 | Age: 70 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: Ammonia, household |
| PT ACCIDENTLY INGESTED 2 GULPS OF HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA DX: INGESTED AMMONIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| 40 Y.O. B FEMALE W/CHEMICAL BURNS TO EYES. PT GOT AMMONIA IN EYES @ HOM E. E914 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Metal containers |
| DRANK FEW GULPS OF AMMONIA BY MISTAKE. WIFE POURED INTO SODA CAN WHICH HE DRANK FROM AND DID NOT KNOW. DX. INGESTION OF AMMONIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| PT MIXING BLEACH AND AMMONIA AT HOME AND INHALED THE FUMES DEVELOPED SE VERE DYSPNEA AND COUGH ANOXIA FROM INHALATION OF FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2002 | Age: 43 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: Ammonia, household |
| AMMONIA INHALATION THROAT BURNING EYES RED SLIGHT SOB DX: AMMONIA CHEMI CAL INHALATION W/BRONCHIO SPASM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2002 | Age: 34 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: Ammonia, household |
| CHEMICAL INHALATION-PT INHALED AMMONIA 1 HOUR AGO AND STARTED HAVING NAUSEA AND VOMITING WITH DIFFICULTY BREATHING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL INJURY TO EYES-STATES MIXED AMMONIA AND BLEACH TOGETHER AND FUMES ARE BOTHERING EYES & CHEST. C/O CHEST PN & EYE IRRITATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2002 | Age: 6 months | 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: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL EXPOSURE-EXPOSED TO FUMES OF AMMONIA AND BLEACH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2002 | Age: 77 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: Anoxia |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| TOXIC EXPOSURUE TO NOXIOUS FUMES @ HOME-WHILE CLEANING CAT LITTER BOX W / BLEACH & AMMONIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Pine oil cleaning and disinfectant preparations |
| C/O CHEMICAL REACTION TO LT HAND S/P CLEANING W/ SOLVENTS *** W/AMMONIA AND PLEDGE DX: IRRITANT CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2002 | Age: 45 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: Anoxia |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT DX TOXIC INHALATION - C/O COUGH SINCE LAST NIGHT AFTER CLEANING FLOOR W/AMMONIA AND BLEACH IN MOP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| WASHING WINDOWS AT HOME AND GOT *** INTO EYE DX ALLERGIC CONJUNTIVITIS IS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ammonia, household, General purpose household cleaners |
| 48 Y.O. W FEMALE W/SEIZURE. PT WAS CLEANING W/AMMONIA & GLASS CLEANER @ HOME & HAD A SEIZURE & FELL TO FLOOR. E8889 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2002 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bottles or jars |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS - GRABBED A BOTTLE OF AMMONIA WHILE MOM WAS CLE ANING AND GOT SOME IN BOTH EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2002 | Age: 46 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: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| EXPOSED TO AMMONIA AND BLEACH MIXTURE DX. CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Drain cleaners |
| 2 DAYS AGO THE CHEMISTRY TEACHER MIXED AMONIA AND ***, SINCE THEN HAS H AD A COUGH AND WHEEZING. DX. ACUTE ASTHMATIC BRONCHITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| BIL CONJ. PT SPLASHED AMMONIA INTO EYES WHEN CLEANING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2002 | Age: 43 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: Ammonia, household |
| EXPOSED TO AMMONIA - CHEMICAL IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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