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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,159
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2008 | Age: 53 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: Ceilings and walls |
| CEILING TILE FELL ON PT, EYE IRRITATION. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS BREAKING DOWN WALL AND SOMETHING WENT INTO HIS EYE* DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 21 YOM CEILING DEBRIS FROM HOME FELL AND HIT LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/10/2008 | Age: 41 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: Ceilings and walls |
| 41 YO WALKED INTO WALL INJURED EYE EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| R EYE PAIN/ F/B AFTER CEILING FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/04/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT STATES A CEILING TILE FELL AND GOT IN PTS EYE AT HOME FOREIGN BODY LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Manual filing or sanding tools |
| PATIENT WAS SANDING A WALL, SUSTAINED A FOREIGN BODY TO RIGHT EYE, EITHER METAL OR DRYWALL. DX-F.B. TO EYE, TRAUMATIC CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PATIENT WAS JUMPING AT HOME WHEN HIT THE WALL 2 DAYS AGO, BLEEDING FROM EYE; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS DOING A DROP CEILING AND GOT SOME DEBRIS IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2008 | Age: 46 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: Ceilings and walls |
| C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF EYE FOREIGN BODY SENSATION WHEN WAS IN THE BATHROOM &CEILING COLLAPSED>> CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| GOT HIT IN EYE FROM PARTICAL FALLING FROM CEILING DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2008 | 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PT SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION AFTER FIXING SOMETHING IN THE CEILING* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 14 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PATIENT JUMPED UP AND HIT CEILING, FELT SOMETHING GO IN EYE, EYE PAIN; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| CORN ABR. PT GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHEN SOMETHING FELL FROM CEILING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| EYE PAIN & IRRITATION AFTER TAKING DOWN CEILING DX: CORNEAL ABRASION, FBF EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 3 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: Ceilings and walls |
| EYE/ FACE CTS-RAN INTO A WALL-@ DREAM CENTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | 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: Ceilings and walls |
| CORNEAL AB-CEILING TILE FELL & HIT PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| CORNEAL AB-GOT DEBRIS IN EYE FROM CEILING TILE-@ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| GOT SOMETHING IN EYE, HAS BEEN FIXING CEILING TILES AT HOME. DX; CORNE AL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2008 | 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: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| C/O EYE PAIN&REDNESS STATUS POST ACCIDENTALLY POKED SELF INTO EYE WITH A PIECE OF METAL STICKING OUT OF THE WALL >>SUBCON HEAMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 61 YOM STATES WAS FIXING SOMETHING IN THE CEILING AND THINKS SOMETHING FELL INTO RIGHT EYE YESTERDAY, NOW HAS CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PT SOMETHING FELL IN EYE WHILE WORKING ON CEILING AT HOME DX/ CORNEAL ABRASION LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS WORKING OVERHEAD ON AN OLD BUILDING REATTACHING THE PANELS WHEN GOT SOMETHING IN EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2008 | Age: 13 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PT DX LOCAL EYE IRRITATION/BURNING EYE - S/P BIBEMS AFTER CEILING COLLAPSED,INHALED DUST THIS PM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 26 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: Ceilings and walls |
| POSSIBLE ALLERGIC REACTION BOTH EYES: TOOK DOWN DRYWALL, DEVELOPED ITCHINESS, B/L EYE BURNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2008 | Age: 11 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: Ceilings and walls |
| L EYE CORNEAL ABRAS/11YOF STS AT HOME SOMETHING FELL OFF THE CEILING AN D INTO L EYE. C/O PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 56 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PUTTING UP CELING TILE, GOT SOMETHING IN EYE/ CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2008 | Age: 3 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: Ceilings and walls |
| C/O RIGHT EYE PAIN AFTER HITTING HEAD ON WALL. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| ABRASION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK BY A CIELING TILE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| PT HAD A PICTURE FRAME FALL OFF THE WALL INTO FACE SUSTAINED A CORNEA L ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Manual filing or sanding tools |
| PT WAS SANDING WALLS IN HER BASEMENT YESTERDAY AND DEVELOPED EYE PAIN DX// FB BILAT EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FOREIGN BODY (CEILING TILE PIECE) IN L EYE AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| ACCIDENTALLY PUSHED IN TO BRICK WALL AND HIT HEAD AT DAY CARE. DX SIXTH NERVE PALSY# |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 4 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PLAYING AND HIT TOP OF HEAAD ON CEILING RESULTING IN EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FB RIGHT EYE. PT GOT A PIECE OF PLASTER IN HIS EYE WHEN WORKING ON HIS CEILING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| BUMPED EYE ONTO A WALL WHILE WALKING LAST NIGHT, NOW WITH BLOOD INTHE E YE >> SUBCONJ HEAMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls, Portable power drills and accessories |
| PT USING DRILL AT HOME ON CEILING HAD FOREIGN BODY IN R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2008 | Age: 54 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: Ceilings and walls |
| SUDDENLY DEVELOPED EYE FOREIGN BODY SENSATION WHILE PULLING A PLASTER C EILING/WALL DOWN >> FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| EYE FB-DEBRIS WHILE WORKING W/ PLASTER WALL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS CLEANING HER CEILING WHEN SOMETHING FELL IN EYE. DX. CORNEAL ABR ASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2008 | Age: 36 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS WORKING ON DROP CEILING AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE DX:RT CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2008 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| REPORTS PIECE OF CEILING TILE FELL HITTING EYE VERSUS CEILING TILE DUST FELL INTO EYE >> CORNEAL ABRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| CHANGING A GRATE IN CEILING -CEILING CAME DOWN HIT HIM IN THE FACE ABRASION RIGHT CORNEAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/22/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS CLEANING MORTOR OF BASEMENT WALL AT HOME AND GOT SOME IN EYEDX:C ORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| 56 YO MALE HAD PIECE OF POPCORN CEILING FALL IN EYE F/B EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PIECED OF POP-CORN CEILING FELL INTO PTS EYE. DX FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2008 | Age: 17 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: Ceilings and walls |
| PT SUSTAINED AN ABRASION OF AN EYE WHILE PUTTING UP SHEET ROCK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2008 | Age: 39 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: Ceilings and walls |
| INSTALLING SUSPENDED CEILING A PIECE OF FOAM FELL INTO EYE, NOW C FBS >> CORNEAL ABRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT SOMETHING FLEW OUT OF TILE CEILING AND WENT INTO EYE DX// FB LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| FB FLEW INTO EYE WHILE REPLACING TILE CEILING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT LOOKED UP TO CEILING AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Ceilings and walls |
| PT WAS HELPING PUT UP A CEILING THAT CAVED IN AT DAUGHTERS HOUSE & A PC OF DRYWALL WENT INTO EYES DX: REMOVAL FOREIGN BODY BOTH EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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