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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,948
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/16/2002 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| SCRATCHED EYE WITH SUNGLASSES PEG CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2002 | Age: 38 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: Eye protection devices |
| PT PUT GOGGLES ON FACE WHICH HAD SOME CONCRETE DUST IN THEM GOT SOME IN HIS LEFT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| PT TRYING ON A PAIR OF SUNGLASSES IN STORE, TAG HIT PT IN EYE, CORNEAL ABRASION RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| FOREIGN BODY EYE - PATIENT SUSTAINED FOREIGN BODY TO LEFT EYE DURING SC HOOL SHOP CLASS - WAS WEARING SAFETY GOGGLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2002 | Age: 24 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| WHILE WEARING SUN TANNING GOGGLES, ELASTIC BAND BROKE AND HIT PATIENT IN EYE. D: SCLERAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2002 | Age: 43 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: Eye protection devices, Welding equipment |
| F.B. L EYE - PIECE OF STEEL WENT UNDER GLASSES AND INTO EYE WHEN WELDIN G |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2002 | Age: 43 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: Eye protection devices |
| RT CORNEAL AB-WORKING ON RUSTY CAR MUFFLER-WEARING SAFETY GLASSES-PAIN IN EYE WHEN SAFETY GLASSES REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Eye protection devices, Tools |
| HAHAD GLASSES ON WHILE GRINDING STEEL TODAY BUT THINKS A PIECE GOT INTO HIS R EYE. F.B. REMOVAL R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Eye protection devices, Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER ON SOME METAL WHILE WEARING PROTECTIVE EYE WEA R STILL GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2002 | 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| F.B. R EYE - GOT PIECE OF WOOD IN EYE WHEN WEARING SAFETY GLASSES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2002 | Age: 44 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: Eye protection devices |
| PATIENT HAS FOREIGN BODY IN EYE X 2 DAYS. WORKS ON OLD CARS BUT WEARS GOGGLES. D: CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY AND CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 57 YOF WAS TRYING ON SUNGLASSES AND BELIEVES THAT TH E TAG SCRATCHED HER IN THE RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| PT WAS WALKING ALONG ROAD, A TRUCK WENT BY AND CINDERS FLEW INTO HIS EYE UNDER HIS SUNGLASSES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| HAS DEVELOPED SWELLING IN R EYE HAS BEEN DIGGING IN ROCKS OVER LAST CO UPLE WEEKS WEARS SAFETY GLASSES MAY HAVE FB IN EYE D BLEPHARITIS R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2002 | 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| LT EYE CONJUCTIVITIS-WORKING UNDER A CAR-LUBRICATING CAR-WEARING GOGGLES-UNSURE HOW EXPOSURE OCCURED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2002 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| RT EYE EVALUATION FOR INJURY-NINE FOUND.PT POKED SELF IN THE EYE WITH A PAIR OF SUNGLASSES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2002 | Age: 44 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: Eye protection devices |
| PATIENT HAS FOREIGN BODY SENSATION IN EYE AFTER PUTTING ON "DIRTY"SUNGL ASSES YESTERDAY. D: FOREIGN BODY SENSATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2002 | Age: 31 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: Eye protection devices, Tools |
| FOREIGN BODY EYE - PATIENT WAS GRINDING LAST EVENING AND WAS WEARING PR OTECTIVE LENSES HOWEVER HE STILL GOT A FLECK OF STEEL IN HIS LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 37 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: Eye protection devices |
| R CORNEAL ABRSION, FB SENSATION AFTER CUTTING SOMETHING TOGAY. WAS WEAR ING SAFETY GOGGLES.! |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2002 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| CONJUNCTIVITIS - WAS CUTTING WOOD, WEARING SAFETY GOGGLES AND GOT A PIE CE OF WOOD IN LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2002 | 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: Eye protection devices |
| ONSET OF F.B. SENSATION IN R EYE WHILE CUTTING METAL, WHILE WEARINGSAFE TY GLASSES. CORNEAL ABRASION R EYE $ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2002 | 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: Eye protection devices |
| 39YOM-CORNEAL ABRASION-WORKING ON A HOUSE-SOMETHING SCRATCHED EYE-WAS W EARING GOGGLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| OBTAINED IRRITATION TO BOTH EYES WHILE WEARING SAFETY GOGGLES.CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS $ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Eye protection devices, Welding equipment |
| FLASHBURN EYES - VICTIM WAS WELDING TODAY USING SPECIAL WELDING GLASSES THAT ARE BATTERY OPERATED WHICH DARKEN THE LENS - BATTERY DEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| POKED SELF IN EYE WITH SUNGLASSES DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2002 | Age: 46 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: Eye protection devices |
| 46 YOM SCRATCHED BY SAFETY GOGGLES ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| CORNEAL ABRASION LEFT EYE-SUS INJ TO LEFT EYE WHEN SHE WAS POKED IN EYE BY TAG ON SUNGLASSES. EYE PAINFUL AND WATERING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2002 | 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: Eye protection devices |
| WOODWORKING REMODELING HOUSE, TOOK OFF SAFETY GOGGLES AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2002 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| PT WEARING PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR WHILE TRIMMING A TREE, SOMETHING GOT INTO EYE, FB LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2002 | Age: 31 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: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Eye protection devices, Welding equipment |
| FLASHBURN EYES - VICTIM STATES HE WAS WELDING & WEARING SAFETY HELMET B UT TOOK SAFETY PART OFF TO SEE ADEQUATELY TO WELD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2002 | 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: Eye protection devices, Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT TRIMMING GRASS AT HOME WITH NYLON THREADED ***, WAS WEARING PROTECTI VE GLASSES, GOT SOMETHING IN EYE, CORNEAL ABRASION RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2002 | Age: 34 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: Eye protection devices, Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 34YOM-FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE-WHILE GRINDING METAL WAS WEARING PROTECTIVE EYE GLASSES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Eye protection devices |
| PT POKED LEFT EYE WITH PLASTIC SUNGLASSES. D: CORNEAL ABRASION L EFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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