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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2023 Jul 7;61(7):543–550. doi: 10.1080/15563650.2023.2227999

Table 2.

Reported sites of lacrimator exposures by age group.

Exposure site Age ≤5 Age 6–12 Age 13–19 Age 20–59 Age ≥60 Unknown/other Total

Own residence 17,862 88.6% 13,414 70.7% 7,964 42.0% 20,389 61.1% 2,156 79.4% 6,883 51.1% 68,668 64.1%
Other residence 890 4.4% 933 4.9% 627 3.3% 965 2.9% 104 3.8% 415 3.1% 3,934 3.7%
School 134 0.7% 2,992 15.8% 7,157 37.7% 308 0.9% 15 0.6% 920 6.8% 11,526 10.8%
Workplace 25 0.1% 39 0.2% 276 1.5% 3,051 9.3% 105 3.9% 1,526 11.3% 5,022 4.7%
Public area 630 3.1% 876 4.6% 1,736 9.2% 4,819 14.7% 212 7.8% 1,708 12.7% 9,981 9.3%
Restaurant / food service 44 0.2% 28 0.1% 46 0.2% 200 0.6% 9 0.3% 209 1.6% 536 0.5%
Health care facility 24 0.1% 22 0.1% 46 0.2% 123 0.4% 14 0.5% 244 1.8% 473 0.4%
Other 423 2.1% 552 2.9% 426 2.2% 1,094 3.3% 71 2.6% 513 2.8% 3,079 2.9%
Unknown 129 0.6% 120 0.6% 687 3.6% 1,898 5.8% 31 1.1% 1,064 7.9% 3,929 3.7%
Total 20,161 18,976 18,965 32,847 2,717 13,482 107,149 100.00%