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Database: Injuries reported by emergency rooms

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) is a sample of 100 hospital emergency rooms in the United States and its territories. Patient information is collected from NEISS hospitals for every emergency visit involving an injury associated with consumer products. Make no mistake: Many injuries found here are the result of accidents or carelessness and not the fault of the product itself. More than 374,000 injuries were reported in 2008, the latest available year for NEISS data.

Type a keyword (such as "ladder" or "toy" or "eye" or "shot") into the empty text box and click on Search. You can also search by sex, age and treatment date. Use Advanced Search to select a date range. Children under age 2 are shown by age in months and have a "2" prefix: 223 = 23 months.

Search for     Narrative Treatment date Age Sex Race   Contains Equals Starts with ... More than ... Less than ... Equal or more than ... Equal or less than ... Empty           Details found: 393     Page 1 of 10      Records Per Page: 40 20 30 50 100 500 Treatment date Age Sex Race Narrative View 12/31/2008 4 Male Black PW SWALLOWED A BATTERY View 12/31/2008 8 Male Not stated PRESENTS WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN FOR 2 WEEKS S/P BUTTON BATTERY INGESTION A MONTH AG More ... View 12/30/2008 220 Female White PT SWALLOWED A BUTTON BATTERY FROM A SNOWMAN DAD FOUND A BATTERY ON FLOOR, ONE F More ... View 12/30/2008 211 Female White SWALLOWED BATTERY DX: BATTERY INGESTION View 12/30/2008 7 Male Black PATIENT SWALLOWED SMALL WATCH BATTERY OUT OF A TOY; FB IN STOMACH View 12/29/2008 219 Male Not stated PT SWALLOWED A LITHIUM THERMOMETER BATTERY. MOM FOUND THE THERMOMETER OPEN AND N More ... View 12/29/2008 2 Female White SWALLOWED 1 LR41 BUTTON BATTERY AT HOME DX INGESTION DISC BATTERY View 12/27/2008 2 Female White PT SWALLOWED A KEY CHAIN BATTERY, DX: FOREIGN BODY IN STOMACH* View 12/25/2008 45 Male White PT WAS CLEANING BATTERY CABLE W/WIRE BRUSH AT HOME, CUT INDEX FINGER. DX. FINGER More ... View 12/24/2008 3 Male Not stated PT PRESENTS TO ER WITH HAVING LODGED A BATTERY INTO NOSE-FOREIGN BODY I N NOSE View 12/24/2008 62 Female White PT CHANGING THE BATTERY ON HER PHONE WHEN SHE STRUCK HERSELF IN THE CHE ST WITH More ... View 12/23/2008 63 Male White PT WITH CHEST PAIN AFTER TRYING TO PUT BATTERY INTO TRUCK. DX CHEST PAI N View 12/20/2008 41 Male Not stated A 0.6 CM LAC. ON R THUMB AREA: USING BOX CUTTER, CUTTING BATTERY TERMINAL, CUT R More ... View 12/20/2008 7 Male White BURNED FINGERS FROM BATTERY ACID ON REMOTE CONTROL & FELL DOWN 4 STAIRS ---- CH More ... View 12/20/2008 50 Male White HIT IN EYE WITH BATTERY ACID. DX L CONJUNCTIVITIS CHEMICAL View 12/19/2008 215 Female Other PT SWALLOWED A BATTERY View 12/18/2008 40 Male White PT STEPPED ON A BATTERY CHARGER AT HOME TODAY AND INJURED FOOT DX/ LEFT PLANTAR More ... View 12/17/2008 24 Male White 24 YO M LACERATION TO FINGER CUT WHILE USING A KNIFE TO REMOVE A BATTERY FROM A More ... View 12/15/2008 11 Female Other SHE IS DEVELOPMENTALLY DELAYED, & IS ALWAYS PUTTING SOMETHING IN HER MOUTH- POSS More ... View 12/15/2008 208 Female White 8 MONTH OLD WEARS HEARING AIDE WOKE UP PLAYING WITH HEARING AIDE INJEST ED BATTE More ... View 12/13/2008 22 Female Not stated BURNED WRIST ON HOT LAP TOP COMPUTER BATTERY View 12/13/2008 2 Female White PT WAS PLAYING WITH A LIGHTED UP NECKLACE W/ 2 BUTTON BATTERIES PT SWALLOWED BAT More ... View 12/10/2008 2 Female Other SWALLOWED A BUTTON BATTERY, AT HOME, BROTHER TOLD MOM THAT SHE HAD INGESTED IT. More ... View 12/8/2008 56 Male Not stated PT INJURED HAND WHEN BATTERY EXPLODED. DX: LEFT HAND CONTUSION. View 12/8/2008 53 Female White PT AT A STORE A BATTERY EXPLODED EXPOSED TO FUMES THROAT FEELS FUNNY DX// INHALA More ... View 12/5/2008 211 Female White SWALLOWED BUTTON TYPE BATTERY FB INGESTION * View 12/4/2008 7 Male Black 7 YOM PRESENTS FOR POSSIBLY INGESTION OF A WATCH BATTERY View 12/3/2008 211 Female Not stated DX BUTTON BATTERY INGESTION: EVAL OF SWALLOWED BATTERY. SIBL'G FOUND 1 2 BUTTON More ... View 12/3/2008 220 Female Not stated P TO ER WITH POSSIBLE "BUTTON BATTERY" IN NOSE, FB NOSE View 12/2/2008 210 Male White SWALLOW BATTERY, DX; FB INGESTION View 12/2/2008 8 Female Not stated MOM STATES CHILD SWALLOWED A WATCH BATTERY DX INGESTED A BATTERY View 12/1/2008 57 Female White 57YOF IN APARTMENT,FURNACE ON,BECAME NAUSEA/HEADACHES,GAS CO.RED TAGGED FURNACE, More ... View 12/1/2008 2 Female White SWALLOWED A BATTERY. DX FB INGESTED View 12/1/2008 2 Male Not stated PT INGESTED A BATTERY. DX: NO FOREIGN BODY ON EXAM. View 11/29/2008 4 Male White PT SWALOWED A CELL PHONE BATTERY (BUTTON BATTERIES) DX F.B PROBABLE BATTERY. View 11/28/2008 2 Female White SWALLOWED A BATTERY 24 HRS AGO. DX: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION-BATTERY View 11/28/2008 12 Male Not stated RE-CHARGEABLE BATTERY EXPLODED- ACID BURN EYE View 11/27/2008 2 Male Not stated MOM FOUND PT WITH WATCH BATTERIES IN HANDS. ONE BATTERY MISSING. INGEST ED BATTE More ... View 11/25/2008 2 Male Other HAS A WATCH BATTERY IN HIS LT NOSTRIL DX: NASAL FB- REMOVED View 11/25/2008 3 Male White PATIENT SWALLOWED BATTERY FROM LASER POINTER. FB IN STOMACH [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

SOURCE: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, NEISS database
CREDIT: John Maines/Sun Sentinel