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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 954
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2007 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT WITH CORNEAL ABRASION AFTER BEING HIT WITH BOTTLE ROCKET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PATIENT HURT WHEN FIRECRACKER POPED NEAR LT EYE AT HOME DX: LT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fireworks |
| WATCHING FIREWORKS, ASH FROM FIREWORKS IN EYES DX: FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2007 | Age: 12 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: Fireworks |
| ABRASION EYE WITH FIREWORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fireworks |
| HIT BY FIREBALL (TYPE I)/CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 6 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: Fireworks |
| L EYE IRRITATION: AT FRIEND'S HOUSE PLAYING WITH SNAPPER FIREWORKS AND MAY HAVE BEEN STRUCK IN EYE WITH ONE WHEN THROWN ON GROUND - TYPE K |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 7 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: Fireworks |
| PT X TODAY WAS PLAYING WITH A "FIRECRACKER" WHEN A SPARK HIT THE PTS EY E. DX. CORNEAL ABRASION TYPE P |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PATIENT WAS HOLDING A ROMAN CANDLE AND FLAMES FELL IN HER FACE CORNEA L BURN TYPE 1 FIREWORK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fireworks |
| SPARKLER TYPE L SPARKS WENT INTO PT'S EYE. DX: R EYE FB/CORNEAL ABR, PERIORBITAL FLASH BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fireworks |
| SPARK FROM SMOKE BOMB TYPE K GOT IN EYE TUESDAY, EYE W/DRAINAGE/SCLERAL IRRITATION, SUPERFICIAL EYE BURN, CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 15 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: Fireworks |
| FIREWORKS TYPE R UNKNOWN FELL FROM SKY INTO PT'S EYE. DX: KERATITIS R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fireworks, Wagons |
| PT WAS LYING IN WAGON WHEN DEBRIS FROM AERIAL TYPE H FIREWORK FELL INTO FACE. DX: L EYE FB/ SUBONCJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT WAS LOOKING UP IN THE SKY AT A FIREWORK AND SOMETHING FELL INTO HER EYE. DX. FB EYE TYPE R=UNKNOWN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 14 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: Fireworks |
| PT WAS LIGHTING OFF BOTTLE ROCKET TYPE E1 AND WAS HIT IN FACE. DX: BILAT EYE CORNEAL ABR, L PERICHONDRAL HEMATOMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT.STATES IN NEIGHBORHOOD & FIREWORK EXPLODED IN FACE . DX; CORNEAL BUR N / FACIAL BURNS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT X TODAY WAS AT HOME AND STRUCK WITH A BOTTLE ROCKET. THE TYPE E S TRUCK THE PT IN THE CHEST AND EYE.DX. CORNEAL ABRASION, 1ST DEGREE BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Fireworks |
| FOREIGN BODY TO CORNEA SECONDARY TO FIREWORKS (SHELL) TYPE R |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PATEINT STATES FIRE CRACKER WENT OFF AND PIECE HIT IN EYE. DX; EYE TR AUMA TO RIGHT EYE, HYPHOMA TYPE P / SIZE UNKNOWN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Fireworks |
| @HM, HOLDING BOTTLE ROCKET TYPE E IN HAND-GOT CAUGHT IN HAIR AFTER BEIN G LIT &EXPLODED NEXT TO EYE/UNABLE TO OPEN, SUPERFICIAL BURN TO CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Fireworks |
| HIT IN RIGHT EYE BY CHAMPAGNE POPPER FIREWORK, TYPE K, DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fireworks |
| GOT RESIDUE OF FIREWORKS IN R EYE AT HOME LEFT WO BEING SEEN BY ER DR TYPE R |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/01/2007 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fireworks |
| AT FIREWORK SHOW YEST,TYPE L SPARKLER FIREWORKS ASH GOT IN EYE,REDNESS/ SWELLING,INSIDE UPPER EYELID MAY BE IRRITATION OR FB;EYE IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2007 | Age: 6 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: Fireworks |
| FIRECRACKER(TYPE A) POPPED NEAR EYE/CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Fireworks |
| PT WAS LIGHTING OFF BOTTLE ROCKETS WHEN ONE FLEW INTO EYE. DX: RUPTURED L GLOBE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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