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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,112
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2002 | Age: 34 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: Hammers, Screwdrivers |
| 34 Y.O. MALE W/CORNEAL ABRASION. PT WAS HAMMERING A HAMMER ONTO A SCREW DRIVER & SOMETHING WENT IN HIS EYE @ HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/28/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PATIENT HIT HAMMER ON NAIL AND NAIL POPED UP AND HIT EYE. DX: ABRASIO N TO CORNEA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2002 | Age: 12 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: Hammers, Christmas decorations |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - F.B. IN EYE WHEN HAMMERING AN ORNAMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT HAMMERING METAL AT HOME WHEN A PIECE OF THE METAL WENT INTO RIGHT EY E FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| LT EYE FB-WORKING IN BASEMENT-AT HOME-HAMMERING CONCRETE-FB HIT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2002 | Age: 8 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: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| CHILD HAMMERING ROCKS AND CEMENT WHEN CHUNK OF ROCK FLEW UP AND HIT EYE. D: HYPHEMA. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/09/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| HIT NAIL WITH HAMMER, NAIL FLEW INTO EYE EYE INJURY SMALL HYPHEMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| FB LEFT EYE.PT WAS HAMMERING A NAIL AND TIP OF NAIL WENT INTO PTS EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| GOT PIECE OF METAL INTO EYE WHILE USING HAMMER DX: ABRASION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| FB LEFT EYE.PT WAS HAMMERING AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| ABRASION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK SELF WITH HAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2002 | Age: 27 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: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| WAS HAMMERING A NAIL, NAIL WENT INTO EYE LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 15 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: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| RT EYE FB-WHILE HAMMERING A TACK INTO A WALL AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2002 | 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Ceilings and walls |
| PT.WHO CAME FOR EVALUATION BECAUSE WHILE USING HAMMER IN WALL DEMOLITIO N HAD FOREING BODY TO RT.EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2002 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| FOREIGN BODY EYE WHEN HITTING PIECE OF METAL WITH HAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT DX CORNEAL ABRASION - " PEICE OF CONCRETE FLEW INTO EYE WHILE HAMMERING ON SATURDAY" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2002 | 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: Hammers |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - WAS HAMMERING WHEN A PIECE OF WOOD FLEW UP HITTING L EFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2002 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| RT CORNEAL AB-@ HOME-WHILE POUNDING STONE W/ A HAMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| FB RT EYE.PT WAS HAMMERING A NAIL AND A PIECE OF NAIL WENT INTO PTS EYE . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT DX F.B TO LT EYE/LOW BACK STRAIN - C/O MLT EYE PAIN S/P A PEICE OFWO OD FLEW INTO EYE WHILE HAMMERING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2002 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| FOREIGN BODY IN RIGHT EYE SINCE LAST NIGHT AFTER HAMMERING METAL (PTHAS HAD BIL LENS IMPLANTS). FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE, REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2002 | Age: 31 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: Hammers |
| PATIENT WAS HAMMERING NAILS IN WOOD, AND PIECE OF WOOD OR METAL WENT IN EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION, FOREIGN BODY TO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2002 | Age: 39 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: Hammers, Eyeglasses |
| RT CORNEAL AB-HAMMERING ON A PIECE OF IRON-WHILE WEARING EYE GLASSES-LO CALE NOT STATED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2002 | 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: Hammers |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - WAS HAMMERING ON SOME WOOD IN THE WOODS BEHIND HOME AND A PIECE OF WOOD GOT INTO RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT HITTING A PIECE OF METAL WITH A HAMMER WHEN A PIECE OF METAL WENT IN TO RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 23 YOM WAS HAMMERING NAILS INTO CEILING; PARTICLE FELL INTO RT. EYE. FO REIGN BODY, RT. EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 46 Y.O. B MALE W/LAC TO EYE. PT WAS HAMMERING A NAIL & IT BOUNCED BACK & STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE. PT ADM. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/06/2002 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| CUTTING SHINGLE W/HAMMER, PARTICLE FLEW INTO EYE. DX: FOREIGN BODY IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| HIT SPRAY CAN OF PAINT PRIMER WITH HAMMER AND PAINT SPRAYED EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2002 | 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: Hammers, Awls, chisels or planes |
| PT WAS CUTTING STONE WITH A HAMMER & CHISEL HAD GOGGLES ON AT FIRSTTOOK OFF TO GO TO DINNER BUT CONTINUED WORKING PC FLEW IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 20 Y.O. W MALE W/FB REMOVAL TO EYE. PT WAS HAMMERING A NAIL W/HAMM ER & A PIECE OF METAL WENT IN HIS EYE. E914 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2002 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS PLAYING AND SISTER WAS HAMMERING A PIECE OF WOOD AND A SPLI NTER MAY HAVE GOTTEN IN PTS EYE. D: ACUTE RIGHT EYE PAIN (RIGHT) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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