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Accidents - Vacuum cleaners - Year 2004 - Eyeball

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 423
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Date: 12/19/2004Age: 52 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Vacuum cleaners
RIGHT EYE CORN. PT WAS VACUUMING AND WAS POKED IN EYE WITH A CHRISTMAS TREE NEEDLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 09/02/2004Age: 37 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Vacuum cleaners
HIT EYE WITH VACUUM CLEANER CORD DX: L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/27/2004Age: 36 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Vacuum cleaners
R CORNEAL ABRAS/36YOF STS AT HOME WAS VACUUMING AND HOSE CAME BACK AND STRUCK HER IN THE EYE. STS THE WHOLE EYE BALL HURTS HER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/22/2004Age: 9 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Vacuum cleaners
PATIENT WAS PULLING ON VACUUM CLEANER CORD AND IT HIT HER IN EYE. DX; CORNEAL ABRASION TO RIGHT EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/08/2004Age: 46 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Vacuum cleaners
CORNEAL ABRASION - 46 YOM C/O RIGHT EYE PAIN AFTER DUST GOT INTO HIS EY E WHILE HE WAS VACUUMING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/03/2004Age: 27 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Vacuum cleaners
PT DX CONTUSION TO RT EYE - S/P HANDLE FROM VACCUM CLEANER HIT HER IN THE EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/21/2004Age: 72 yearsSex: FemaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Other
Product: Vacuum cleaners
RUPTURED RT GOBE-WAS VACUUMING AND STRUCK HERSELF IN THE EYE WITH HOSEW HILE TRYING TO DISCONECT IT.UNABLE TO SEE OUT OF EYE. TRANS TO ***.
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital


Date: 02/12/2004Age: 24 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Vacuum cleaners
PT WAS VACCUMING AND WHEN TURNED OFF, BLAST OF AIR DX FB IN EYE MAY HAV E BEEN A PIECE OF GLASS BUT NO ABR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/09/2004Age: 36 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Vacuum cleaners
PT SUST. F.B. TO FORM VACUUM CLEANER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/03/2004Age: 42 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: EyeballDiagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Vacuum cleaners
PT USING VACUUM AND PIECE OF DUST FLEW INTO EYE LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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