|
Back to NEISS Data Home, Hospital Data.
Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 480
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 30 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: Fences or fence posts |
| R CORNEAL ABRASION, PT HAS FB SENSTATION AFTER WORKING WITH METAL FENCE POSTS TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2008 | Age: 45 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: Fences or fence posts, Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS WEEDEATING HIT A PIECED OF BARBED WIRE AND IT EMBEDDED INTO EYE PERIORBITAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| RAN INTO FENCE, FB TO EYE, DX; EYE FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 39 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: Fences or fence posts |
| C/O TRAUMATIC EYE PAIN LEFT EYE WAS STRUCK BY BARBWIRE UNABLE TO OPEN EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2008 | Age: 56 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: Fences or fence posts |
| PT HAD BARBED WIRE HIT HER IN THE EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION LEFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| HIT EYE ON FENCE LATCH. DX EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 50 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: Fences or fence posts |
| DX R EYE FB, S/P REMOVAL: PT WORKING ON FENCE AND GOT SAW DUST IN EYE, FLUSHED W WATER AT HOME W NO RESOLVE OF S/S. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 6 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: Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT HAS EYE PAIN AND WATERING, PAIN BEGAN WHEN JUMPING OVER A FENCE ; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| FB RT EYE.PT WAS PUTTING IN A FENCE POST AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| PT POKED EYE ON A FENCE LAST NIGHT. D: NO DX; LWBS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/14/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: @ SCHOOL TURNED AND WALKED INT A FENCE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| FELL FROM FENCE DX: LAC TO EYE AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| SCRATCHED EYE ON A METAL GATE. DX EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fences or fence posts |
| EYE ABR. PT WAS MOVING A METAL OBJECT TO HAVE FENCE PUT IN AND GOT SOME THING IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2008 | Age: 82 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: Fences or fence posts |
| WALKED INTO A FENCE POST. DX- EYE CONTUSION #$ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2008 | Age: 53 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: Fences or fence posts |
| PT AT HOME FELL INTO FENCE INJ L EYE AND LEG/ DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
|
