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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,172
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2006 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| 35 YO FEMALE SHATTERED LIGHT BULB IN EYES CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/22/2006 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| CHANGING LIGHTBULB OUTSIDE & IT BROKE, SOMETHING GOT INTO EYE DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/04/2006 | Age: 44 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: Light bulbs |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: HALLOGEN BULB EXPLODED AND INJURED EYE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2006 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| PT CHANGING LIGHT BULB STATES LIGHT BULB BROKE AND GOT IN EYE FOREIGN BODY RT EYE REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2006 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| A LIGHT BULB SHATTERED NEAR PT'S LT EYE TONIGHT, AT HOME, EYE RED CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2006 | Age: 22 months | 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: Light bulbs |
| WAS NEAR THE SHATTERING OF GLASS LIGHTBULB, NOW C EYE PAIN " CORNEAL ABRS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs, Baby strollers |
| FOREIGN BODY B/L EYES-SITTING IN STROLLER AT HOME LIGHT BULBS SHATTERED OVER HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2006 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| PT HAD LIGHTBULB BREAK IN FRONT OF FACE, PIECE GOT IN TO LT EYE, FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2006 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| FLUROSCENT LIGHT BULB FELL FROM FIXTURE AT HOME DEBRIS IN PT EYE CORNEA RT EYE ABRASION TRANSFER TO EYE INSTITUTE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 10/11/2006 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| FB TO EYE FACIAL LAC, PT WALKED INTO A GLASS BULB LAMP AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2006 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs, Desks, chests, bureaus or buffets |
| LIGHTBULB ON DRESSER BURNED EYE ACCIDENTLY CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2006 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs, Floors or flooring materials |
| NORMAL EXAM-? EYE FBS-DROPPED BOX OF LIGHT BULBS ON FLOOR-THOUGHT SOME DEBRIS WENT INTO EYES-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| FB L EYE; CHANGING LIGHT BULB ON PORCH @ HOME, FELT SOMETHING DROP INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| PT LIGHT BULB EXPLODED IN FACE HAD GLASS IN EYE DX// LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2006 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| PT BROKE A LIGHT BULB THEN HAD EYE PAIN. DX: FOREIGN BODY SENSATION, RIGHT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2006 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| POSSIBLE GLASS IN EYE FROM LIGHT BULB DX: ABRASION R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2006 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs, Weight lifting |
| BROKE LIGHTBULB WHILE LIFTING WEIGHTS GLASS IN EYE REMOVAL FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| QUESTION RIGHT CORONEAL ABRASION DUE TO LIGHT BULB BREAKING AND PIECES FALLING INTO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2006 | Age: 40 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: Light bulbs |
| 40 YOM THINKS HE GOT A PIECE OF BROKEN LIGHTBULB IN LEFT EYE CAUSING CO RNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2006 | Age: 52 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: Light bulbs |
| FLUORESCENT LIGHT SHATTERED ON HEAD CORNEAL ABRASION LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2006 | Age: 6 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: Light bulbs |
| EYE ABRASION, LIGHT BULB SHATTERED AND GOT IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2006 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| ABRASION TO EYE WHEN CHANGING LIGHT BULB AND IT BROKE AND GOT INTO HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2006 | Age: 12 months | 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: Light bulbs, Beds or bedframes |
| PLAYING WITH MOM IN BED AND LIGHT BULB EXPLODED INTO EYE DX: L EYE PAIN/ SWELLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2006 | Age: 56 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: Light bulbs |
| GLASS LIGHT BULB EXPLODED AND FELT SOMETHING IN EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| FOREIGN BODY IN EYE AFTER CHANGING LIGHT BULB FB RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| PT C/O LIGHT BULB IN SCHOOL SHATTERED AND SPLINTER OF GLASS WENT INTO LT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2006 | Age: 35 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| PT PUTTING LIGHTBULB IN IT SHATTERED, PIECE GOT IN RT EYE, CORNEAL ABRA SION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2006 | Age: 29 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: Light bulbs, Containers |
| APTIENT DROPPED A BOX OF FLOURESCENT BULBS , PIECE OF GLASS HIM HIM IN EYE. DX-ABRASION EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2006 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Light bulbs |
| FB LEFT EYE.PT WAS CHANGING A LIGHT BULB AND IT BROKE AND GLASS WENT IN TO PTS EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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