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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,229
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| CORNEAL AB-HIT EYE W/A FELT TIP MARKER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/29/2006 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| HIT EYE ON TOP OF PEN THAT DAD WAS HOLDING, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/29/2006 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL POKING SELF IN THE EYE WITH A PENCIL. DX EYE CON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION AFTER BROTHER THREW A PENCIL THAT HIT HER IN THE EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| ABRASION TO EYE WHEN POKED BY A PENCIL AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH A PEN. DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED W/PENCIL 3 DAYS AGO, RUPTURED GLOBE, CORNEAL PERFORATION DOES NOT EXTEND THRU NUMBUS, SURGERY DONE TO REPAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/07/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED IN EYE WITH PENCIL FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| EYE POKED W/FINGER OR PENCIL @ SCHOOL, EYE SUPERFICIAL INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT POKED IN EYE WITH PENCIL; EYE ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT SCRAPED IN EYE WITH PENCIL. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2006 | Age: 2 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: Pens and pencils |
| POKED IN EYE W/PENCIL, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED IN EYE WITH A PENCIL. DX GLOBE DISORDER - LACERATION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/12/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK IN THE LEFT EYE WITH A PENCIL AND C/O FUZZY VISION AND PAIN. DX-O.S. CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils, Rope or string |
| AT ***, HOLDING A PEN ATTATCHED TO A CORD, MOM WALKED AWAY&PEN PULLED O UT HITTING PT'S EYE "EYE INJ" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT POKED HERSELF IN THE EYE WITH A PENCIL. DX EYE PUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| C/O PT FATHER STATES CHILD ACCIDENTLY STUCK PENCIL IN EYE DX RT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| BROTHER ACCIDENTALLY HIT PT ON LEFT EYE WITH A PENCIL. D: EYE INJURY; SCLERAL INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2006 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT. STUCK HERSELF W/A PEN TO THE R EYE WHILE IN CAR. DX. R EYE SCLERA ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS PLAYING WITH #2 PENCIL AND POKED SELF IN EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| GLO-PEN EXPLODED AND GOT IN EYE. DX CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2006 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT POKED IN EYE WITH UNSHARPENED PENCIL/ERASER END OF PENCIL AT HO ME, RUBBING EYE AND CRYING; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT POKED HIMSELF IN EYE WITH PEN AT HOME; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED SELF IN EYE WITH PENCIL. DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2006 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| CONTUSED EYE WITH PEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/15/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| HEMORRHAGE EYEBALL, POKED WITH PEN MARKER |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 06/22/2006 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS WALKING AROUND WITH AN UNSHARPENED PENCIL AND FELL STRIKING SELF IN THE EYE.DX EYE CON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| CONTUS R EYE; @ HOME, RUNNING WITH PENCIL IN HAND, FELL & POKED EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| TRAUMA R EYEBALL, PT PLAYING W/A PENCIL AT HOME, C/O PAIN, REDNESS, LEAD EMBEDDED, TRF TO OPTHALMOLOGY. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 06/03/2006 | Age: 3 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: Pens and pencils |
| CONTUSED EYE WITH PENCIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2006 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT HOLDING A PEN AND MOM TRIED TO GET IT AWAY FROM HER SHE PULLED BAKE AND POKED SELF IN THE EYE WITH IT ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT HAS EYE SWELLING AND REDNESS AFTER *** PEN INK EXPLODED IN HIS EYE A T DAYCARE; CORNEAL ABRASION, CHEMICAL CONJUNC., POSSIBLE CORNEA BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT HAD CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AFTER *** PEN EXPOLDED IN HIS EYE AT DAYCARE; CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED IN EYE WITH A MARKER DX: R EYE CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| SCRATCHED IN EYE WITH PEN DX: R CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| ACCIDENTALLY POKED SELF IN EYE WITH A PENCIL DX: L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| CONTUSED EYE,POKED WITH INK PEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2006 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| RUNNING AND FELL, POKED EYE W/PEN DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2006 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED SELF ACC INTO EYE BY PENCIL " CORNEAL ABRS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2006 | Age: 4 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: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| BROTHER POKED PT IN RT EYE WITH *** MARKER- EYE SOREDX: SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/10/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT WAS POKED IN THE EYE WITH A PENCIL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| 5 YO STUCK IN EYE W/PEN MARKER CONTUSION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 5 YOM WAS PLAYING WITH A PENCIL AND STUCK SELF LEFT EYE WITH METAL END OF PENCIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT SUST INJURY TO EYE FROM PENCIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PT DX CORNEAL ABRASION - PT STATES HE WAS POKED IN THE RT EYE W/A PEN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2006 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| CARRYING A PENCIL, ACC POKED SELF INTO EYE " CORNEAL ABRS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2006 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PLAYING WITH PEN - POKED SELF IN EYE WHILE TAKING CAP OFF BLUNT TRAUMA TO EYE - NO ABRASION OR HYPHEMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| POKED SELF IN EYE W/ PEN ON ACCIDENT. CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| PATIENT HIT IN EYE BY UNSHARPENED PENCIL YESTERDAY AT HOME, EYE RED AND SWOLLEN; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| RUNNING HOLDING A PENCIL FELL PENCIL STUCK EYE WOUND LEFT EYE THROUGH PERIORBITAL AREA 2 FOREIGN BODIES IN SIPEFICAL |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 01/14/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pens and pencils |
| EYE CUT WHEN POKED BY BROTHER WITH A PEN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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