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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 513
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/21/2007 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Knives |
| PT SUSTAINED FOREIGN BODY TO EYE WHILE CLEANING KNIVES* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2007 | Age: 5 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 |
| PT POKED IN EYE WITH KNIFE AT HOME TODAY DX// RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2007 | Age: 4 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, Bags |
| ACC STABBED SELF INTO EYE C A STEAK KNIFE ATT TO OPEN A BAG OF ORANGE >> RUPTURED GLOBE S/P SW |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/08/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Knives |
| PATIENT FELL ON STEAK KNIFE, KNIFE STABBED INTO EYE, CANNOT SEE OUT OF EYE; RUPTURE OF EYE W/PARTIAL LOSS OF INTRAOCULAR TISSUE, HYPHEMA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/08/2007 | Age: 24 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: Knives |
| PT SHRAPENING KNIFE,PARTICLES GOT INTO R EYE, DX R EYE CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY REMOVED WITH RUST RING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2007 | Age: 3 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: Knives |
| PT POKED SELF IN THE EYE WITH A PUMPKIN CARVING TOOL ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2007 | 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: Other |
| Product: Knives |
| PT PLAYING WITH KNIFE, STARTED COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN EYE. EYE MILDLY ERYTHEMATOUS. DX: PROBABLE INJURY TO EYE BY KNIFE. NO SCRATCHES FOUND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives, Containers |
| PT WAS CUT W/KNIFE WHILE TRYING TO OPEN A BOX. DX: L OPEN GLOBE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/15/2007 | Age: 9 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 |
| PT CUT EYE W/KNIFE. DX: R EYE CORNEAL ABR/PENETRATING INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| TRYING TO OPEN POPSICLE W/PEARING KNIFE, SLIPPED AND HIT EYE, UNABLE TO SEE OUT OF EYE, LACERATION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| WALKING OUT OF KITCHEN WITH KNIFE IN HAND & TRIPPED OVER DOG & FELL, LA CERATION ABOVE EYE/LRG CLOT INSIDE LID, D-LACERATION EYE-CORNEA/FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/07/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| HIT SELF IN EYE WITH KNIFE/SCLERAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/29/2007 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives, Foods |
| 15 YOF WAS CUTTING UP A BANANA WITH A KNIFE AND THE KNIFE SLIPPED AND T HINKS POSSIBLY GRAZED LEFT EYE, INITIALLY HAD INTENSE PAIN, BLURRED VIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2007 | Age: 7 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 |
| PATIENT ACCIDENT STRUCK IN EYE WITH SERRATED BUTTER KNIFE BY BROTHER LA ST NIGHT, NOW WITH BURNING PAIN W/BLOOD TINGED DRAINAGE; LAC TO IRIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2007 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives, Day wear |
| MOM IN KITCHEN WHEN PT PULLED ON HER SWEATER/SLEEVE AND HER HAND WITH S TEAK KNIFE JERKED AND FLEW, STRUCK PT PENETRATAING EYE; GLOBE LAC,HYPHE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/02/2007 | Age: 33 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: Knives, Wood paneling and particleboard |
| CONTUSION RTEYE.PT.REFERS WHILE CUTTING WOOD FRAME,KNIFE BROKE HITTING HIM ON EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| SIBLING RUNNING PAST PT W/*** KNIFEW/SCISSOR COMPONENT OPEN & TRIED TO HAND OFF TO PT BUT INSTEAD POKED EYE, CORNEAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PT SLIPPED WHILE USING KNIVE AND CUT RT EYE DX:SMALL LAC LT EYE SCLERA |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
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