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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 839
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 31 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 |
| PT IS BEING SEEN FOR ABRASION TO EYE AFTER SCREW FELL AND STRUCK HIM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2008 | Age: 30 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 |
| PT STATES THAT A PIECE OF A BOLT GOT EMBEDDED IN HIS EYE DX: FOREIGN BODY EYE--REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| 45 Y/O STRUCK A NAIL WITH A HAMMER AND THE NAIL STRUCK HIS EYE. DX-PUNCTURE WOUND EYEBALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2008 | Age: 32 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 |
| 32Y/OM C/O EYE PAIN, A NAIL FLEW UP AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| NAIL POPPED OUT AND HIT IN EYE. DX EYE ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | 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, Other portable or stationary power tools |
| PT WAS CUTTING SCREWS WITH A ROTARY POWERED DREMEL, LT EYE REDDX: CORNE AL AB, CORNEAL FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2008 | Age: 43 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 |
| PT DX SUPERFICIAL CORNEAL ABRASION - S/P PT HIT TO EYE W/A NAIL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2008 | Age: 27 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. HE PULLED OUT THE SCREW HIT HIM R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Fishing |
| 30 YOM WAS CUT WITH RUSTY NAIL WHEN FISHING RIGHT EYE SWOLLEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2008 | Age: 27 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, Power saws |
| PT WAS CUTTING A NAIL WITH A SAW WHEN HE SUSTAINED A FB TO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | 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, Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WAS CUTTING A SCREW WITH METAL CUTTER AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE DX: LT EYE CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2008 | Age: 31 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, Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| AT HOME WITH FOREIGN BODY IN R EYE WHILE USING GRINDER TO FIX A SCREW DX METAL FOREIGN BODY R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 31 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 |
| PT SUST CORNEAL ABRASION WITH A NAIL# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2008 | Age: 32 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 |
| NAIL INTO EYE WHILE PULLING THE NAIL FROM WOOD, BLUNT EYE TRAUMA, CONTUSION EYE/NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2008 | Age: 35 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 |
| PT CUTTING NAIL AT HOME WITH A SAWSALL AND A PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO E YE DX// FB R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2008 | Age: 38 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, Hammers |
| PT WAS HAMMERING A METAL NAIL, NAIL BROKE INTO FRAGMENTS AND WENT INTO EYE, FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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, Drills |
| F/B IN R EYE WHEN HE WAS SCREWING IN USING A DRILL IN THE WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2008 | Age: 35 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, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| NAIL MISSHOT FROM NAILGUN AND HIT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Alcohol |
| CORNEAL AB-HIT A HOOK ON THE WALL WHILE INTOXICATED-@ A BAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2008 | Age: 38 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 |
| AT HOME PT WORKING WITH METAL SCREWS,C/O POSS METAL GOT INTO L EYE, C/O PAIN,DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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