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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 820
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2006 | Age: 41 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 USING A METAL PUNCH HAMMER AND ACCIDENTLY POKED SELF IN THE RIGHT E YE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/06/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| HIT EYE W/ A HAMMER BLUNT TRAUMA RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2006 | Age: 41 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 |
| PT WAS HAMMERING AT HOME AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS EYE DX// CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT HITTING CONCRETE WITH A HAMMER WHEN A PIECE WENT INTO RIGHR EYE FORE IGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS HELPING A FRIEND WHEN A PIECE OF CHIP FROM A HAMMER FLEW IN HI S EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 40 YOM WAS HAMMERING A NAIL WITH HAMMER AND THE NAIL POPPED UP HITTING PT'S RIGHT EYE CAUSING CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2006 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| EYE PAIN, INJ OCCURED WHILE HAMMERING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | 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: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PT HAMMERING A NAIL WHEN FELT EYE PAIN. D: CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2006 | Age: 26 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 |
| CORNEAL AB-HAMMERING A NAIL-PIECE OF METAL HIT EYE-WEARS CONTACTS-@ HOM E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2006 | Age: 40 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 |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS HAMMERING IN A NAIL AND NAIL HEAD WENT INT O EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Ladders |
| HAMMER FELL OFF LADDER, STRUCK EYE/ CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2006 | 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: Hammers |
| HAMMERING WOOD, SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE " FB REMOVAL" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| EYE FB-METAL FB FLEW FROM A STRUCK HAMMER HITTING EYE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2006 | Age: 31 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: Hammers |
| ?CLAW HAMMER STRUCK LT EYE " CORNEAL ABRS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS HAMMERING AND PIECE OF WOOD HIT EYE. DX: FB R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2006 | Age: 32 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, Eye protection devices |
| PT WAS WEARING PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR AND HAMMERING METAL AND IT STILL WENT INTO RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2006 | Age: 48 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: Hammers |
| PT SUS CONT TO EYE WHEN A HAMMER FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Floors or flooring materials |
| FB L&R EYEBALLS, PT USING A HAMMER & A CHISEL TO REMOVE A FLOOR AT HOM E, DEBRIS GOT INTO HIS EYES, C/O PAIN, REDNESS, PHOTOPHOBIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| RT EYE INJ AFTER HAMMERING METAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers, Bunk beds |
| PT WAS HAMMERING TO PUT BUNK BED TOGETHER AND PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO EYE. DX: OPEN GLOBE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/12/2006 | Age: 27 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 |
| FB LT EYE AFTER HAMMERING DX: CORNEAL AB LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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