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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 476
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| 20 Y/O W/M GOT FOREIGN BODY IN EYE WHILE SPLITTING WOOD AT HOME WITH AXE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| 50 Y/O W/M GOT WOOD IN EYE WHILE CUTTING WOOD WITH AXE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2009 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS USING A AXE TO CUT WOOD AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2009 | Age: 34 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: Hatchets or axes |
| PATIENT WAS SHARPENING AX AND FELT LIKE SOMETHING GOT IN EYE. DX; LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2009 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| CHOPPING WOOD WITH AXE, GOT PIECE OF WOOD IN EYE. DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2009 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF EYE FB SENSATION WHILE CUTTING WOOD WITH AX >>FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2009 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT CHOPPING WOOD WITH AN AXE AND A SPLITER WENT INTO LEFT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS USING AN AXE TO CUT WOOD AND SOMETHING FLE W IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2009 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| PT WAS HIT ON ACCIDENT W/ BUTT OF AXE TO HEAD C/O LAC TO THE CORNER O F EYE. DX: LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2009 | Age: 30 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: Hatchets or axes |
| 30 YOM POKED SELF IN LEFT EYE WITH HANDLE OF PICK AXE SUSTAINING A CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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