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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 125
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/02/2006 | Age: 12 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: Batteries, Hammers |
| PT WAS HITTING A BATTERY WITH A HAMMER, & BATTERY BROKE OPEN & BATTERY ACIDE HIT PT IN THE FACE & EYES. DX: LT CORNEAL ABRASION FROM BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2006 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Batteries, Thermometers |
| PT SUSTAINED CHEMCIAL BURN TO EYE WHILE PUTTING A MEAT THERMOMETER BETWEEN TWO BATTERIES THERMOMETER BURST AND BURNED EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2006 | Age: 7 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: Batteries |
| DX: F.B. (BATTERY POWDER) IN EYE; MOM CALLED POISON CONTROL; FLUSHED EY E OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2006 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Batteries, Other sound recording, reproducing or receiving equipment |
| BATTERY ACID IN CD PLAYER SPRAYED IN PATIENT'S EYE AT HOME; CHEMICAL CO NJUNCTITITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2006 | 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Batteries |
| MOM REPORTS PT WAS PLAYING W/BATTERY W/DRY BATTERY ACID ON THE OUTSIDE OF IT, REPORTS RUBING EYES AFTER PLAYING W/BATTERY, D-CHEMICAL CONJUNC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2006 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Batteries |
| PT @ SCHOOL ANOTHER STUDENT WAS OPENING A D-CELL BATTERY, BATTERY FLUID SPLASHED ONTO PT'S L EYE AND FACE FLUSHED WITH H2O. DX ACID BURN TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2006 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Batteries |
| PT'S BROTHER THREW A BATTERY AND HIT PT IN RIGHT EYE, HEMMORRHAGE TO RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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