Accidents - Knives - Year 2004 - Eyeball

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 544
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	135
6-15 years old:	219
16-25 years old:	65
26-50 years old:	90
50+ years old:	31

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/26/2004	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Knives
PUNCTURED EYEBALL WITH A KNIFE BY ACCIDENT DX: ADMITTED TO OR FOR REPAI R TO EYE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/21/2004	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, Rope or string
PT CUTTING PIECE OF STRING WITH KNIFE WHEN KNIFE SLIPPED & STRUCK L EYE. DX: SMALL LACERATION TO INNER SCHLERA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/04/2004	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Knives, Knife sharpeners
GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE SHARPENING A KNIFE DX: R EYE FOREIGN BODY REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/30/2004	Age: 23 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
23MONTH OLD WHO SELF INFLICTED A CORNEAL LACERATION TO R EYE WITH A STEAK KNIFE. DX CORNEAL LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/20/2004	Age: 4 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: Laceration
Product: Knives, Plastic bags
PT WAS TRYING TO OPEN A PLASTIC BAG WITH A STEAK KNIFE AND POKED SELF WITH KNIFE TO EYE. DX EYE INJURY CORNEAL LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/18/2004	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
PT. FOUND WITH BLOOD AROUND CORNER OF RT. EYE WITH KNIFE NEXT TO HIM DX: LACERATION TO RT. EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/16/2004	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Knives
PT C/O PAIN TO RT EYE S/P HIT WITH KNIFE A WEEK AGO.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2004	Age: 40 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: Knives, Portable power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers
@ HOME 2 DAYS AGO SHARPENING A KNIFE W/ ELECTRIC GRINDER BELIEVES ME TAL FLEW IN EYE DX CORNEAL FB , CORNEAL ABR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/12/2004	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Knives, Knife sharpeners
FOREIGN BODY EYE - 67 YOM WAS SHARPENING A KNIFE TODAY AND GOT SOMETHIN G IN HIS RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2004	Age: 52 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
TASTINHG HOT FOOD WITH KNIFE IN HAND AND POKED SELF IN EYE WITH KNIFE-- CONJUNCTIVAL ABRASION NOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/10/2004	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Knives, Cardboard products
PT WHILE CUTTING CARDBOARDS WHIT KNIFE, SLIPPED AND PUNCTURE HIS LEFT E YE SUSTAINED "RUPTURED GLOBE"
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/01/2004	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: Foreign Body
Product: Knives
10YOM IN ED WITH EYE PAIN/TEARING/REDNESS X1 WK. PT PLAYED W/ METAL SWO RD PRIOR; FEELS LIKE SOMETHING IN EYE - DX SWORD RUST EMBEDDED IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/20/2004	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
PT SUST CORNEAL ABRASION FROM KNIFE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2004	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
PT SUST LACERATION TO EYEBALL WITH KNIFE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/22/2004	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Knives
WHITTLING WOOD W KNIFE GOT PIECE OF SHAVING IN L EYE WHILE CARVING DX FB OS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/07/2004	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN THE EYE WITH A PLASTIC KNIFE. DX-SCLERAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/05/2004	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
ABRASION EYE WHEN POKED IT WITH STEAK KNIFE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/24/2004	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
CORNEAL ABRASION - 3 YOF ACCIDENTALLY SCRATCHED HERSELF ON THE LEFT EYE WITH A BUTTER KNIFE, WAS JUMPING AROUND WHILE HOLDING THE KNIFE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2004	Age: 7 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, Other toys
POKED SELF IN EYE WITH KNIFE WHILE TRYING TO OPEN TOY AT HOME. DX; COR NEAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2004	Age: 21 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Knives, Tools
GRINDING KNIFE BLADE YEST, FEELS METAL IN EYE. DX METALLIC FB WITH RUST RING.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/06/2004	Age: 20 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Knives
CORNEAL ABRASION - 20 MOF WAS POKED IN THE EYE WITH A PLASTIC KNIFE CAU SING AN ABRASION TO HER RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/29/2004	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: Knives
PATIENT STABBED IN EYE WITH KITCHEN KNIFE, BLOOD IN CORNER OF EYE; SUBC ONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE, CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/19/2004	Age: 13 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, Tableware and accessories
PT DX TRAUMA TO RT EYE - S/P WSHING DISHES WHEN HE GOT SOAP IN HIS EYE, HE THEN RUBBED HIS EYE W/A KNIFE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/26/2004	Age: 16 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 HAD A BUTTER KNIFE FALL ONTO FACE AND INJURE EYE.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/01/2004	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Knives
PT POKED EYE W/BUTTER KNIFE AND HAS PX. DX: PT LWBS.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 01/01/2004	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Knives
PT WAS TRYING TO OPEN A PACKAGE OF COOKIES WITH A KNIFE WHEN SHE STABBE D HERSELF IN THE RIGHT EYE LACERATION EYE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

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