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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 460
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/05/2002 | 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: Towels or cloths |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE EYE WITH A TOWEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| RUBBED A CLOTH AGAINST EYE DX. CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| TOWELING OFF AT HOME APPROXIMATELY 1830, EXPERIENCED FOREIGN BODY SEN- SATION OF LEFT EYE, NO FB SEEN IN ER. DX CORNEAL ABRASION LEFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| SPECK OF METAL FROM CLEANING RAG TO EYE 2 DAYS AGO, C/O HEADACHE. DX: FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| PT AND HER BROTHER WERE PLAYING AROUND AND WAS HIT WITH A WASH CLOTH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| SUBCONJUCTUAL HEMMORRHAGE - HIT SELF WITH A TOWEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| PT HAD A STYE TO RIGHT EYELID. USED A WARM WASHCLOTH WHICH OPENED STYE. DX: STYE RIGHT EYELID. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| PT USED WASH CLOTH AND HAD EYE PX. DX: CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS, CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| DIRECT TRAUMA TO R EYE, HIT W/TOWEL WHILE DRYING HAIR AT 7 AM. DX. COR NEAL ABRA R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| SCRATCHED LEFT EYE WITH TOWEL. DX: SCLERAL ABRASION, LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2002 | 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: Towels or cloths |
| LEFT CORN ABR. PT AND HER FRIEND WERE SNAPPING TOWELS AT EACH OTHER AND PT WAS HIT IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2002 | Age: 78 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: Towels or cloths |
| SCRATCHED RIGHT EYE WITH A WASH CLOTH THIS MORNING BATHING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| FOREIGN BODY EYEBALL FROM TOWEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Towels or cloths |
| HIT SELF IN EYE WITH DRY TOWEL DX. CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2002 | Age: 5 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: Towels or cloths |
| STARTED CRYING WHEN MOM WIPED FACE WITH TOWEL;CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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