Accidents - Knives - Year 2002 - Eyeball

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 578
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	83
6-15 years old:	263
16-25 years old:	45
26-50 years old:	140
50+ years old:	45

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/28/2002	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
SKINNING DINNER, CUT EYE WITH KNIFE;LAC EYE, RUPTURED GLOBE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2002	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
HIT EYE WITH POINT OF KNIFE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2002	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: Knives
CHILD POKED IN EYE WITH SHARP BUTTER KNIFE ACCIDENTALLY AT GRANDMOTHER' S HOUSE. D: CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2002	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: Knives
LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS CARVING WOOD WITH A KNIFE AND A PIECE OF W OOD WENT INTO EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
CUT EYEBALL WHEN SISTER ACCIDENTLY STABBED WITH KNIFE.
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 10/29/2002	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: Knives
ACCIDENTLY POKED IN EYE BY SON'S BUTTER KNIFE SCLERAL ABRASION SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/26/2002	Age: 2 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: Knives
MOM WAS HOLDING PEARING KNIFE, PT RAN INTO IT, CONTUSION TO EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/16/2002	Age: 38 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives, Plastic wrapping products
DX:CONJUCTIVAL LAC. ATTEMPTING TO OPEN SHRINK WRAP ON CHEESE WITH BUTTE R KNIFE. KNIFE SLIPPED PT STABBED IN R EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2002	Age: 5 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: Knives
DX CORNEAL ABRASION: POKED SELF IN EYE WITH BUTTER KNIFE AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/23/2002	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Knives, Dishwashers
GOT KNIFE OUT FO DISHWASHER AND POKED EYEBALL CAUSEING EYEBALL RUPTURE.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/21/2002	Age: 23 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
PT EATING AN ORANGE, HOLDING KNIFE IN HAND WENT TO PUT PIECE OF ORANGE IN MOUTH AND POKED SELF IN EYE WITH KNIFE, CORNEAL ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/05/2002	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: Knives
FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE , CORNEAL ABRASION - WHILE SHARPENING KNIFE A PIE CE FLEW INTO EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/19/2002	Age: 5 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: Knives
PATIENT POKED IN EYE WITH TIP OF KNIFE DAD HAD IN HIS HAND, DAD FELT KN IFE MOVE; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2002	Age: 32 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
PT ACCIDENTLY POKED SELF IN EYE WITH KNIFE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
PATIENT ACCIDENTALLY POKED IN EYE WITH KNIFE AT DINNER WHEN GRANDPARENT REACHING OVER PT. CUTTING FOOD; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2002	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
LAC TO EYE WHEN PLAYING WITH KNIFE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/26/2002	Age: 23 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
POKED IN EYE WITH KNIFE 4 DAYS AGOCORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2002	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Knives
ACCIDENTLY POKED SELF IN EYE WITH A KNIFE,RUPTURED GLOBE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/19/2002	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Knives
JALEPENO TOXICITY - PATIENT WAS CHOPPING JALEPENO PEPPERS WITH KITCHENK NIFE AND GOT SOME JUICE IN HIS RIGHT EYE - IS IN SIGNIFICANT PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/07/2002	Age: 17 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
*** 17 MON OLD B FEMALE W/LAC TO EYEBALL. UNCLE WAS HOLDING A KN IFE BEHIND HIS BACK. PT CAME IN FROM ANOTHER ROOM BEHIND HIM & RAN INTO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/01/2002	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Knives
HIT IN LEFT EYE W/CHILDS SWORD BLOODY TEARS. DX LEFT EYE TRAUMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/18/2002	Age: 23 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
EYE LAC. PT WAS HANDLING A KNIFE AND IT FLIPPED UP HITTING PT IN EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2002	Age: 10 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: Knives
PT DX CONJUNCTIVAL ABRASION RT EYE - BIB MOTHER,WHILE CUTTING A BREAD, ACCIDENTALLY HIT HIS RT EYE W/TIP OF THE KNIFE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2002	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Knives
PT SLIPPED W/STEAK KNIFE AND STABBED EYE. DX: PENETRATING OCULAR INJURY.
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 02/18/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Knives
PUNCTURED AND RUPTURED EYEBALL WITH KNIFE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/05/2002	Age: 62 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: Knives
TRIED TO CUT HOSPITAL ID BAND FROM WRIST AND HIT SELF IN EYE WITH KNIFE , ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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