Table 1.

Sunburn Injuries from Sunlamps Treated in Hospital Emergency Rooms Reported to the U.S.Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System

	Sample # of Hospitals	Cases	Female	Female under 20	%	Age	Male	Male under 20	Age	%
1980	74	36	25	16	69	19.8	11	4	27.6	31
1981	74	41	28	15	68	21.3	13	6	24.1	32
1982	73	25	22	17	88	19.1	3	2	19.3	12
1983	73	25	18	9	72	22.4	7	3	26.1	28
1984	72	22	16	12	73	18.5	6	2	29.3	27
1985	64	22	15	14	68	17.3	7	2	23.6	32
1986	64	14	13	8	93	21.0	1	0	24.0	7
1987	62	14	10	6	71	20.2	4	3	27.5	29
1988	62	18	13	11	72	18.8	5	3	25.4	28
1989	62	20	16	9	80	21.3	4	2	22.3	20
1990	65	6	5	4	83	17.6	1	0	32.0	17
1991	91	13	10	8	77	20.6	3	1	25.7	23
1992	91	19	14	8	74	20.7	5	3	22.0	26
1993	91	8	6	2	75	26.0	2	0	61.5	25
1996	90	5	4	0	80	33.5	1	0	24.0	20
1997	101	5	3	1	60	26.3	2	2	17.0	40
1998	101	3	3	1	100	23.3	0	0	N/A	N/A
1999	101	3	3	2	100	23.0	0	0	N/A	N/A
2000–06	100	15	11	7	73	22.6	4	3	17.8	27
Total		314	235	150	75	21.8	79	36	26.4	25

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission collected and kindly provided the sunlamp injury data (product code: 1609) from 1980–2006 used to compile this table from its National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). The NEISS database collects data on injuries from consumer products leading to emergency room visits from each of its sample hospitals. Eye only injuries and other injuries from sunlamps not related to sunburns were excluded from the data set. Due to the small number of reported injuries from 2000–2006, those data were combined for simplicity. The percentage (%) of females or males was calculated from the total number from each gender against the total number of cases for each individual year and for the entire data set in the row labeled “Total”.