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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 529
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Contact lenses, Christmas decorations |
| PT SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION AFTER A CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT WENT INTO HIS EYE WHILE HE WAS WEARING CONTACT LENSES* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Contact lenses, Other ball sports |
| EYE IRRITATION-WEARING CONTACTS-HIT IN EYE W/A HARD PLASTIC BALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Contact lenses, Basketball |
| PT WAS POKED IN R EYE WHILE PLAYING BASKETBALL 4 DAYS PRIOR. KNOCKED OU T CONTACT LENS. PT PUT LENS BACK IN EYE. NOW HAS EYE IRRIT. DX CORN ULC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Contact lenses, Beds or bedframes |
| WORE CONTACT LENS TO BED, EYE HURTING DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2007 | Age: 17 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: Contact lenses, Eye protection devices |
| CORNEAL AB-WEARING CONTACTS W/ SAFETY GOGGLES WHILE SAWING WOOD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2007 | Age: 22 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: Contact lenses, Balloons |
| EYE IRRITATION;LEFT BEFORE EXAM/22YOF PUT CONTACTS IN LAST NIGHT.WENT TO ***, TOUCHED LATEX BALLOONS.RUBBED EYES.EYES BURNING/ITCHING. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/23/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Contact lenses, Golf |
| L CORNEAL ABRASION; GOLFING YESTERDAY,L EYE STARTED BOTHERING, WHEN GOT HOME FOUND THAT LEFT CONTACT WAS SPLIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Contact lenses, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| DROPPED CONTACT INTO CIGARETTEE ASH, PUT BACK IN EYE AFTER CLEANSING IT , CAN'T GET CONTACT OUT/ RT IRRITATION 2ND TO CONTACT LENS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 24 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: Contact lenses, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| 24 YO F CORNEAL ABRASION PT WEARS CONTACTS VISION BECAME BLURRY WHILE PT WAS WASING CABINETS* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Contact lenses, Basketball |
| PT ELBOWED IN EYE WHILE PLAYING BASKETBALL. WAS WEARING CONTACT LENSES. LENS STUCK IN EYE. D: FOREIGN BODY, EYE, ORBIT CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Contact lenses, Beds or bedframes |
| WENT TO BED C CONTECT LENSES IN, AWOKE C RED EYE EYE IRRITATION " |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Contact lenses, General purpose household cleaners |
| EYE PAIN - 25 YOF GOT NEW CONTACT LENSES, C/O PAIN AND BLURRED VISION, MAY HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH *** WHILE TAKING LENSES OUT TO CLEAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2006 | Age: 17 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: Contact lenses, All-terrain vehicles |
| LT CORNEAL AB-WEARING SOFT CONTACTS-DEBRIS WHILE 4 WHEELING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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