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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 149
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/13/2008 | Age: 30 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: Fences or fence posts |
| R CORNEAL ABRASION, PT HAS FB SENSTATION AFTER WORKING WITH METAL FENCE POSTS TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fences or fence posts, Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS WEEDEATING HIT A PIECED OF BARBED WIRE AND IT EMBEDDED INTO EYE PERIORBITAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2008 | Age: 39 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: Fences or fence posts |
| C/O TRAUMATIC EYE PAIN LEFT EYE WAS STRUCK BY BARBWIRE UNABLE TO OPEN EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2008 | Age: 50 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: Fences or fence posts |
| DX R EYE FB, S/P REMOVAL: PT WORKING ON FENCE AND GOT SAW DUST IN EYE, FLUSHED W WATER AT HOME W NO RESOLVE OF S/S. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | 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: Fences or fence posts |
| FB RT EYE.PT WAS PUTTING IN A FENCE POST AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2008 | 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: Fences or fence posts |
| EYE ABR. PT WAS MOVING A METAL OBJECT TO HAVE FENCE PUT IN AND GOT SOME THING IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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