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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 339
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/26/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT. STATES HE WAS SPLITTING WOOD AND METAL WEDGE FLEW BACK AND WENT INT O L EYE. DX. L EYE FB. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 10/25/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS RAKING LEAVES AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2003 | Age: 37 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| WORKING WITH A GARDEN HOE AND GOT SOMETHING IN RIGHT EYE DX: FOREIGN BODY IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2003 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RAKING YARD 3 DAYS AGO, WOKE UP NEXT WITH LT EYE SWOLLEN SHUT/FB LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2003 | 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: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT GOT FB IN LT EYE AFTER RAKING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT STATES HE WAS OUTSIDE RAKING LEAVES AND HIS RIGHT EYE BECAME PAINFUL AND RED, NOT SURE WHAT WENT INTO HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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