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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,524
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/23/2005 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE WEED EATING. DX: R EYE CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2005 | Age: 28 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| USING *** WHEN DEBRIS FLEW INTO EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2005 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT C/O EYE INJURY. PT WAS HIT IN EYE WHILE USING ***. DX RT HYPHEMA RT EYE TRAUMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| *** YESTERDAY, SOMETHING WENT IN EYE. CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2005 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| *** & SOMETHING WENT IN EYE. RT EYE AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2005 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HIT IN THE EYE WITH A ROCK THROWN FROM ***. CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2005 | Age: 62 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: USING *** AT HOME, SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE. EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS HIT IN RT EYE WITH BY WHILE USING *** DX: FB RT EYE DX: FB RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS WEED WACKING AND A ROCK FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2005 | Age: 48 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| WAS USING WEED TRIMMER AND GOT SOMETHING IN LEFT EYE. CORNEAL ABRASION , LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT. W/ FB SENSATION. WAS WEED EATING TODAY. DX. FB EYE, CORNEAL ABRA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| WAS *** THIS AM AND WAS HIT IN THE RT EYE BY A ROCK, C/O BLURREDVISION- PAIN. CORNEAL ABRASION TO RT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FOREIGN BODY TO EYE SECONDARY TO RUNNING *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2005 | Age: 37 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FOREIGN BODY EYE - PATIENT REPORTS HE GOT SOMETHING IN LEFT EYE WHEN WO RKING ON/FIXING *** AT HOME ONE HOUR AGO |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2005 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS *** AT HOME AND GOT SOME DIRT IN RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE YE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| *** & GOT GRASS IN EYE @ HOMEDX CONJUNCTIVAL ABRASION R EYE DX CONJUNCTIVAL ABRASION R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2005 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS OUT *** AND SOMETHING FLEW IN HIS EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION BRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| C/O PT USING *** AND OBJECT FLEW IN HIS EYE DX RT CORNEAL ABRASION DX RT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HIT IN EYE WITH DEBRIS WHILE USING *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2005 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT. WAS USING A *** TRIMMER AT HOME AND SOMETHING FLEW IN HER EYE. D X. ABRASION CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2005 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT STATES HE WAS WEED EATING AT HOME ROCK HIT HIM IN THE EYE RT EYE IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2005 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| USING *** & SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2005 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT HIT IN EYE BY ROCK WHILE WEEDING EATING AT HOME CONJUNCTIVA ABRSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2005 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| SOMETHING HIT EYE WHILE WEEDWACKING DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2005 | 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FOREIGN BODY TO EYE SECONDARY TO USING *** (TRIMMER) WITHOUT G0GGLES G0GGLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS USING *** AND FELT SOMETHING IN EYE. DX: R EYE PX. DX: R EYE PX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2005 | Age: 47 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| USING LAWN TRIMMER, GOT DEBRIS IN BOTH EYES, NO EYE PROTECTION USED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered, Fences or fence posts |
| STRING ON *** BROKE WHILE WORKING NEAR FENCE, PIECE OF STRING FLEW IN E YE. DX; AVULSION CORNEA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PATIENT HIT WITH FOREIGN BODY WHILE ***. DX-SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE. HEMORRHAGE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2005 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| FB RT EYE WHILE WEEDEATING-CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2005 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| GOT GRASS IN EYE WEEDWACKING FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2005 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HIT IN EYE WHILE WEEDEATING-CORNEAL ABRASION/CONTUSION RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2005 | Age: 44 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT GOT SOMETHING FLEW INTO THE EYE WHILE USING ***. "CORNEAL ABRS]' "CORNEAL ABRS]' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS WEEDEATING HIS YARD AT HOME WHEN HE WAS HIT IN THE LEFT EYE WITH A ROCK SUSTAINED AN ABRASION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HIT IN R EYE W/ROCK WHILE *** DX: R CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2005 | Age: 55 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| CONJUNCTIVAL IRRITATION/55YOM USING *** THIS MORNING & NOTED FB SENSATI ON R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| *** FLEW APART, HIT PT IN EYE DX SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE DX SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2005 | Age: 36 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS ***ING THE GRASS, PIECE OF GRASS/DIRT FLEW INTO EYE SUSTAINED" C ORNEAL ABRS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2005 | Age: 49 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 49 YO MALE WAS USING *** AND GOT GRASS AND DIRT IN EYE RIGHT EYE CONTUS ION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2005 | Age: 19 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| L CORNEAL ABRAS/19YOM AT HM WHILE *** WAS HIT IN EYE WITH ROCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT *** AND GOT DUIRT IN LEFT EYE C/O PAIN LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION ASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| ***, SOMETHING IN EYE DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2005 | Age: 32 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| ROCK HIT PT IN EYE WHILE *** DX: CONTUSION RT EYELID DX: CONTUSION RT EYELID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2005 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT USING A POWER *** AT HOME AND STRUCK A SMALL STONE IT STRUCKHIM IN T HE LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS *** AND A PC OF GRASS FLEW INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2005 | Age: 27 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| CORNEAL AB LT EYE AFTER *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| USING *** AND NYLON STRING BROKE OFF AND HIT EYE DIAGNOSIS NOT STATED ATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| ROCK HIT EYE WHILE USING *** DX CORNEAL LACERATION DX CORNEAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PATIENT WAS USING A *** AT HOME. DX-FOREIGN BODY EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 39 YO - DX: CORNEAL ABRAISION RT. EYE - CUTTING GRASS, USING WEED EATE ER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| ROCK HIT PT IN EYE WHILE *** DX: R CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| SOMETHING FLEW UP FROM *** DX. CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2005 | Age: 27 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: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| WAS *** ON FRI. AND BELIEVES PT HAS SOMETHING IN EYE DX R EYE IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
|