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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 440
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 07/12/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Fireworks |
| CONJUNCTIVITIS,SCLERAL REDNESS.PT HAD A FIREWORK HIT PT IN EYE.TYPE R. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT WATCHING FIREWOKS AT THE BALL FIELD WHEN AN ASH WENT INTO RIGHT EYE THREE DAYS AGO CONTINUED EYE PAIN FOREIGN BODY EYE- TYPE R- UNSTATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fireworks |
| FIREWORK TO EYE [SMOKE BOMB EXPLODED] TYPE K 2ND DEGREE THERMAL BURN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT AT FIREWORK DISPLAY, SOMETHING FELL FROM SKY INTO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT WAS SETTING OFF FIREWORKS WHEN BOTTLE ROCKET HIT HIM IN EYE. FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS NOT CALLED. TYPE E |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/02/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT LIGHTING FIREWORKS AT HOME LIT A TWO INCH ROCKET WHICH WENT OFF INTO FACE- INTO LEFT EYE- SEVERE TRAUMA TO EYE- LACERATION EYEBALL- TYPE D |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/24/2002 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fireworks |
| CORNEAL ABRASION (R) EYEBALL, PT EXPOSED TO FIREWORKS, DENIES ANYVISUA L DEFECT, C/O LIGHT HURTS HIS VISION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | 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: Fireworks |
| PATIENT WAS STRUCK IN THE EYE WITH A ROMAN CANDLE.DX-CORNEAL ABRASION R IGHT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT WAS SETTING OFF FIREWORKS AT HOME WHEN ONE WENT OFF NEAR HER AN D SHE GOT SOMETHING IN R EYE DX CORNEAL ABRAS OD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 29 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: Other |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT WAS HIT IN THE EYE WITH A BOTTLE ROCKET LAST NIGHT. DX BLUNT RIGHT EYE TRAUMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 45 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: Fireworks |
| HIT IN EYE BY BOTTLE ROCKET DX. ORB CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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