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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 440
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2010 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Kerosene |
| 86 YO M SOB AFTER INHALING KEROSENE ALL NIGHT. DX DYSPNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Kerosene, Glass alcoholic beverage bottles |
| KEROSENE IN WINE BOTTLE, POURED IN GLASS AND DRANK. DX HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Kerosene |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF KEROSENE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2006 | Age: 69 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: Kerosene, Kerosene or oil heaters |
| PT PASSED OUT,INTENSE KEROSENE SMELL FROM SPACE HEATER,BREATHING FUMES IN SINCE YESTERDAY,VOMITING,DX KEROSENE EXPOSURE,ABDOMINAL PAIN,VOMITIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2006 | Age: 71 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: Kerosene, Kerosene or oil heaters |
| PT CHANGED THE KEROSENE IN THE HEATER AND WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE, CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/28/2003 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Kerosene |
| PT. WAS USING KEROSENE TO HEAT HOUSE WHILE POWER WAS OUT. DX. CARBON M ONOXIDE POISONING. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 12/06/2002 | Age: 95 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: Kerosene, Clothing |
| PT. SOB, HOUSE SMELLED OF KEROSENE, CLOTHES W/STRONG ODOR. DX. DYSPNEA , UTI. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2002 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Kerosene, Containers |
| SYNCOPE. PT WAS PUTTING KEROSENE INTO A CONTAINER AND PASSED OUT,. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2001 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Kerosene, Kerosene or oil heaters |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/09/1998 | Age: 60 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: Kerosene |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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