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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 489
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| FOREIGN BODY RT EYE-WAS HAMMERING A METAL WINDOW YESTERDAY AND NOW C/O RED, WATERY EYES. BELIEVES HE MAY HAVE A PIECE OF METAL IN IT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2004 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| METAL HAMMER BROKE 2 DAYS AGO AND PIECE WENT INTO PT'S EYE. DX: METALLIC FB L ORBIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2004 | Age: 39 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: Hammers |
| L EYE CORNEAL ABRAS/39YOF LAST PM WAS HAMMERING A PIECE OF WOOD AND PIE CE OF IT BROKE OFF AND HIT HER IN EYE. NO LOC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| L EYE PAIN, HIT IN L EYE BY NAIL WHEN HITTING IT WITH HAMMER, NAIL SLIPPED AND HIT EYE; GLOBE PUNCTURE L EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 09/30/2004 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| HAMMERING NAIL---HAMMER BOUNCED BACK AND HIT RIGHT EYE DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2004 | Age: 43 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: Hammers |
| PT C/O RT EYE INJURY. PT WAS HIT IN EYE WITH HAMMER. DX CORNEAL ABRASIO N RT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2004 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| CORN ABR LEFT EYE. PT WAS REPAIRING PORCH WITH A HAMMER AND SOMETHING F LEW INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 05/03/2004 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Hammers |
| HIT EYE WITH A HAMMER DX: L EYE SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2004 | Age: 32 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: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 32 YOM HAMMERING A NAIL AND PIECE OF NAIL FLEW INTO EYE F'BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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