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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,071
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2006 | 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT ACCIDENTLY POKED SELF IN EYE WITH A NAIL DX: RIGHT EYE ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| NAIL FLEW INTO EYE WHEN BEING PULLED/CORNEAL PERFORATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/26/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| CORNEAL AB-HIT A SCREW-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2006 | 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, Hammers |
| PT WAS HAMMERING A NAIL WITHOIUT ANY PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR AND IT BOUNCED UP IN EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2006 | Age: 42 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Power saws |
| SAWING WOOD, HIT A NAIL, A PIECE OF METAL FLEW INTO EYE " FB REMVOAL" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2006 | Age: 36 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT HAS ABRASION TO EYE AFTER BEING STRUCK BY A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2006 | 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 37 YO NAIL IN EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/14/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Wooden containers |
| PT WAS PULLING NAIL OUT OF A BARREL AND IT CAME OUT AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE DX// RIGHT EYE BLUNT TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2006 | Age: 26 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| PT WAS HAMMERING WITH A HAMMER AND HIT A NAIL BOUNCED OFF THE WOOD AND STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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, Screwdrivers |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 47 YOM WAS SCREWING A SCREW WITH SCREWDRIVER INTO A PIECE OF WOOD AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO PT'S RIGHT EYE CAUSING ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| CORNEAL ABRASION L EYEBALL, PT ACCIDENTALLY POKED W/A NAIL AT HOME,C/O PAIN, IRRITATION, REDNESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| CORNEAL AB-DEBRIS WHILE HAMMERING A NAIL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, House repair or construction materials |
| DOING REPAIR WORK AT HOME, PULLING NAILS OUT,NAIL SPRANG OUT OF BOARD & HIT EYE DX: TRAUMATIC MYDRIASIS & SMALL PUNCTURE WOUND OF THE SCLERAE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2006 | Age: 44 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 |
| HIT IN EYE WITH NAIL; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2006 | Age: 43 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, Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 43YMC GRINDING OFF BOLT WITH HAND GRINDER C/O FOREIGN BODY IN EYE FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2006 | Age: 37 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, Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT FELL WHILE PULLING NAIL FROM WOOD W/PLIERS AND NAIL WENT INTO EYE. DX: FB L EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2006 | 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Floors or flooring materials |
| HIT EYE WITH A NAIL FROM A FLOOR BOARD DX: L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| CONTUSION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK BY A NAIL AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2006 | Age: 33 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| NAILING SOMETHING, THEN SUDDEN EYE FB SENSTAINO " CORNEAL ABRS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2006 | Age: 37 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Mirrors or mirror glass |
| C/O PT STATES WAS HANGING A MIRROR , A NAIL BOUNCE AND HIT EYE DX LT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2006 | 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, Hammers |
| PT WAS HAMMERING A NAIL ABOVE HIS HEAD AT HOME AND IT BROKE OFF STRIKIN G HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2006 | Age: 46 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 46 YO MALE WAS HIT IN EYE WITH NAIL ON FRIDAY CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PATIENT WAS GRINDING A NAIL & FELT SOMETHING GO INTO HIS EYE, HAS PAIN. DX - FOREIGN BODY, RT CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2006 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| GOT HIT IN EYE WITH CAP OF NAIL DX: CORNEAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/18/2006 | Age: 49 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, House repair or construction materials |
| WHILE PULLING NAILS FROM DRYWALL, NAIL HIT HIM IN EYE REGION. DX: PUN CTURE WOUND EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2006 | Age: 33 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 33 YOM STATES POKED RIGHT EYE SATURDAY NIGHT BY A RU STY NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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