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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 173
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/01/2006 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarette or pipe lighters, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT LIGHTING A CIGARETTE AND THINKS A SPARK FROM LIGHTER WENT INTO EYE, C/O L EYE PAIN DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2006 | Age: 28 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, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarette or pipe lighters |
| PT HIT IN EYE WITH LIT CIGARETTE. DX: CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarette or pipe lighters, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CORNEAL ABRASION: IN TRUCK DRIVING HOME, LIT CIGARETTE, WHEN SPARKFROM *** LIGHTER FLEW FROM FLINT OF LIGHTER, STRIKING RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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