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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,694
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2007 | Age: 23 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION: USING GRINDER IN GARAGE AT HOME, SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDING AT HOME YESTERDAY WITHOUT GLASSES RT CORNEAL ABRASION * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2007 | 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION WITH FB.PT WAS USING A GRINDER AND SOMETHING FLEW I N EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| CORNEAL ABRASION OF RIGHT EYE - PIECE OF METAL FLEW IN EYE AT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL WHILE GRINDING METAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2007 | Age: 20 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS USING A GRINDER AT HOME, FOREIGN BODY IN EYEBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2007 | Age: 21 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| FOREIGN BODY EYE - 21 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH METAL FRAGMENT IN LEFT EYE - PT REPORTS HE WAS GRINDING METAL AND PIECE WENT INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GOT METAL SCRAPPINGS IN R EYE FROM GRINDING DX FB REMOVED FROM R EYE# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| STATES GOT METAL FB IN EYE WHILE GRINDING METAL AT HOME. DX CORNEAL ABR ASION# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDING METAL, FB TO R EYE DX; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE GRINDING METAL ON CAR. DX: L EYE FB/CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 20YMC C/O EYE IRRITATION AFTER GRINDING ON A MUFFLER CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 24 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GOT SOMETIHNG IN EYE WHILE GRINDING METAL DX: CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| METAL SHAVING FROM GRINDING IN EYE/ FB LT CORNEA,ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2007 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| USING GRINDER TO GRIND METAL, GOT SOMETHING IN EYE DX FB CORNEAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2007 | Age: 25 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT HAD A FOREIGN BODY IN EYE WHILE USING A GRINDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2007 | 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDING WITHOUT GOGGLES, METAL MAY HAVE GOTTEN INEYE/ FB REMOVED RT E YE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2007 | Age: 17 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE - SAFETY GLAS SES DX- F/B TO (R) EYE WITH CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF METAL, FELT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2007 | Age: 22 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| FOREIGN BODY EYE - 22 YEAR OLD MALE WAS GRINDING METAL LAST NIGHT AND A PIECE GOT IN HIS LEFT EYE - FOREIGN BODY NOTED IN CENTER OF EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 25 YO MALE WAS USING METAL GRINDER WITHOUT PROTECTIVE GLASSES AT HOME AND SOMETHING WENT INTO EYE - ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS GRINDING SOMETHING HIT HIS GLASSES AND INJ LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2007 | 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT WAS USING A GRINDER AND FELT SOMETHING GO INTO HIS EYE DX: FOREIGN BODY---REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| CORNEAL AB-DEBRIS WHILE GRINDING ON A TRUCK-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| FB SENSATION RT EYE, HAD BEEN GRINDING/ FB RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PATIENT WAS GRINDING METAL AND PIECE FLEW IN EYE. DX; CORNEAL ABRFASI ON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2007 | Age: 24 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| AT HOME PT GRINDING ON METAL TODAY,NOW EYE RED,SCRATCHING SENSATION DX METALLIC IN R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT STATES A PC OF METAL FLEW INTO EYE WHILE GRINDING, DX: REMOVAL CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| GRINDING METAL AT HOME, GOT FB IN EYE. DX: FB EYE WITH RUST RING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| FB SENSTATION WHILE GRINDING METAL/ FB OD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2007 | Age: 24 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| C/O PT STATES WAS GRINDING METAL AND A PIECE FLEW IN EYE DX F.O,B IN RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Welding equipment |
| PT WAS WATCHING FATHER WELD AND GRINDING METAL THEN 6 HRS LATER DEVELOP ED SEVERE EYE PAIN RADIATION BURNS FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2007 | Age: 21 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: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| AT HOME GRINDING METAL,POSS FOREIGN BODY IN RIGHT EYE,C/O PAIN TO RIGHT EYE(METAL),DX CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers, Motor vehicles or parts |
| FB SENSATION L EYE; GRINDING/DOING BODY WORK ON CAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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