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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 670
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/09/2005 | 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| CUTTING A METAL BOLT THIS AFTERNOON AT HOME AND THINKS A PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO HIS R EYE. DX. R CORNEAL ABRA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2005 | Age: 26 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WORKING ON HIS TRUCK AND A SCREW FELL INTO EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2005 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| METAL IN EYE WHILE SAWING A BOLT OFF OF TRUCK. CORENAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| HIT WITH METAL WHILE HAMMERING A NAIL IN FENCE DX: ABRASION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2005 | Age: 46 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PAIN TO EYE GOT HIT WITH PIECE OF METAL WHILE CUTTING BOLT DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| NAIL HIT EYE DX PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 08/06/2005 | Age: 30 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Stretch cords or stretch straps |
| PT HIT ON EYE WITH A NAIL THAT WAS ON A STRETCHY STRING 3 DAYS AGO AT F RIEND'S HOUSE. D: TRAUMATIC IRITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| NAIL FROM NAIL GUN SHOT INTO EYE PUNTURE GLOBE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/13/2005 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| PT. STATES WAS HIT IN EYE W/RUSTY NAIL WHILE PULLINGS NAILS OUT OF DECK . DX. CORNEAL ABRA L EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2005 | Age: 40 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 40 YO NAIL FELL BACK AND STRUCK EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2005 | Age: 49 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| ABRASION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK BY A NAIL AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2005 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| LEFT CORN ABR. PT WAS HIT IN EYE WHEN HAMMERING A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2005 | Age: 39 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WHILE NAILING WOOD IN ATTIC, SOMETHING WENT INTO EYE, FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2005 | Age: 36 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| CORNEAL FB W/ABRAS/36YOM STS WAS HAMMERING A GALVANIZED NAIL YESTERDAY AND THINKS PIECE FLEW OFF INTO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| HIT EYE WITH NAIL FROM NAIL GUN DX: L EYE SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Power saws |
| FB RIGHT EYE. PT WAS CUTTING THE TOP OF A NAIL OFF WITH A SAW ZAW AND T IT FLEW INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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