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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 217
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2002 | Age: 59 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: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| 59 YO MALE WAS CUTTING WIRE WITH NO GOGGLES ON AND SPARKS FLEW INTO LEFT EYE AND WAS KNOCKED TO GROUND LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2002 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT STATES WAS WORKING WITH COPPER WIRING AND WAS STRUCK IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2002 | 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: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| CONTUSION EYE - PATIENT PRESENTS FROM HOME WITH RIGHT EYE REDNESS AND P AIN AND REPORT HE WAS HIT IN THE EYE WITH A CORD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| BURNED EYEBALL FROM SPARKS WHEN ELECTRIC WIRE TOUCHED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2002 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PT IN CAR ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL BROTHER SWINGING A PEICE OF ELECTRICCABL E WIRE PT HIT IN EYE. DX RIGHT CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| R EYE RED AND PAINFUL AFTER ELECRICAL WIRE HIT HIS EYE ON THURSDAY . DX. CONJUNCTIVITIS/INFECTION R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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