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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 800
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/12/2009 | Age: 38 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 |
| PIECE OF NAIL WENT INTO RIGHT EYE WHILE HAMMERING CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2009 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS HAMMERING BRAKE DRUM ON CAR AT HOME AND PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO EYE 5 DAYS AGO. DX: CORNEAL ALC SEALED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2009 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 51 YOF WAS REACHING OVERHEAD USING A HAMMER TO HAMMER A NAIL; NAIL FLEW OUT AND STRUCK HER IN EYE. SUBCONJUNCTIVAE HEMATOMA, RT, EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS HITTING A TREE WITH A HAMMER AND BARK INJURED LT EYE DX: LT CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2009 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| HAMMERING AND A U SHAPED NAIL RICOCHETED AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE. DX-SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHANE, ABRASION EYEBALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/25/2009 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT GOT FB IN EYE WHILE HAMMERING DX: LT EYE CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2009 | Age: 39 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 |
| PT GOT FB IN EYE WHILE HAMMERING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2009 | Age: 22 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 |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 22 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH LEFT EYE PAIN - ONSET WHEN HAMMERING METAL - FELT SOMETHING FLY INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2009 | Age: 51 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 |
| PT GOT FB IN EYE WHILE HAMMERINGDX: CORNEAL FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2009 | Age: 46 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: Hammers |
| PT DX PAIN IN OR AROUND EYE - DUE TO OBJECT FLYING IN EYE WHILE USING HAMMER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2009 | Age: 60 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 |
| PT HAMMERING A PIECE OF CONCRETE AND GOT A PIECE OF CONCRETE IN RIGHT E YE CORNEAL ABRAISON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2009 | Age: 43 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, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| CONTUSION LT.ORBIT.PT.REFERS WHILE HAMMERING NAIL ON WALL. NAIL BOUNCE BACK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2009 | Age: 40 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: Hammers, All-terrain vehicles |
| 40YOM RIDING ATV AND ALSO WAS POUNDING METAL USING A HAMMER,HAD SOMETHING FLY INTO RT EYE,NOT SURE WHICH ACTIVITY CAUSED INJURY;FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers |
| FACIAL AND EYE INJURY FROM GETTING HIT WITH METAL HAMMER. DX-RIGHT FACIAL LACERATION 2.5 CM, LEFT CORNEAL LACERATION. TRANSFERRED |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 04/10/2009 | Age: 29 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 |
| ACCIDENTALLY HIT ON EYE W A HAMMER. CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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