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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 267
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT EMPTYING TRASH CAN AT HOME THEN RUBBED EYES WITH HANDS DEVELOPED SEV ERE BURNING TO EYES CHEMICAL BURNS TO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2002 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| F.B. (R) EYEBALL, PT STS SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS EYEBALL WHILE CLEANIN G THE TRASH CAN AT HOME, C/ O PAIN & ERYTHEMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks |
| FB LEFT EYE.PT WAS THROWING MAGAZINES IN A DUMPSTER AND WHEN LID CLOSED DIRT WENT INTO PTS EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH CAN TO DUMPSTER AND SOM ETHING FLEW IN EYE FROM CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2002 | Age: 32 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT THROWING GARBAGE IN DUMPSTER AND FELT SOMETHING FLY INTO EYE DX: COR NEAL ABRASION TO LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CORN FB. PT GOT DEBRIS IN EYE WHEN TAKING OUT TRASH FROM CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RIGHT CORN ABR. PT WAS CARRYING A TRASH CAN AND GOT SOMETHING INTO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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