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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 826
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/25/2004 | Age: 46 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: Wire |
| PATIENT WAS PULLING A CABLE WIRE, SNAPPED AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/21/2004 | Age: 58 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: Wire |
| PT DX CORNEAL ABRASION (LT EYE) - DUE TO PIECE OF WIRE YESTERDAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wire |
| FELL AND STRUCK EYE ON A DRIED FLOWER STEM W/ A WIRE, AT HOME; EYE CORN EAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2004 | Age: 62 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: Wire |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: REWIRING LAST PM AT HOME, EXPOSED WIRE FELL INTO RIGHT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2004 | Age: 51 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: Wire |
| POLED HIMSELF INEYE WITH PIECE OF WIRE/ LT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wire |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 21 YOM C/O LEFT EYE PAIN AFTER BEING STRUCK BY SOME SORT OF WIRE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2004 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Wire |
| WORKING W/ WIRE WHICH STUCK HIM IN EYE. SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2004 | Age: 31 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: Wire |
| PT GOT HIT IN EYE WITH METAL WIRE YESTERDAY. FOREIGN BODY SENSATION SIN CE. D: CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2004 | Age: 31 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: Wire |
| STATES SHE LEANED OVER A WIRE AND ACCIDENTLY STUCK HER INN THE EYE DX LT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/22/2004 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wire |
| STATES HE WAS ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE EYE WITH A PIECE OF WIRE DX LT EYE ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wire |
| PATIENT WALKED INTO WIRE AT ***, POKED IN EYE; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2004 | Age: 31 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: Wire |
| CONTUSION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK BY WIRE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wire |
| SCRATCHED EYE WITH A PICE OF WIRE DX: R EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Wire, Power lawn mowers |
| METAL WIRE INPALED INTO L EYELID. RUSTY WIRE FROM YARD WHILE MOWING. DX. PW L EYELID, ACUTE L EYE PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/14/2004 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wire |
| 34 YOWM STATES HE POKED HIMSELF IN THE EYE LAST NIGHT W/ A METAL WIRE T HAT SNAPPED BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Wire, Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT WAS WORKING ON A FENCE AND STUCK A PIECE OF WIRE IN HIS EYE AT HOME. DX-CORNEAL LACERATION & ABRASIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2004 | Age: 52 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: Wire |
| PT DX LT EYE ABRASION - S/P TRAUMA,STRUCK IN LT EYE BY METAL WIRE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2004 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Wire |
| PT WAS POKED IN EYE W/WIRE. DX: L CORNEAL ABR/SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2004 | Age: 17 years | 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: Wire |
| STRUCK IN RIGHT EYE BY PIECE OF WIRE C/O REDNESS AND ITCHING DX: EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/14/2004 | 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: Wire |
| CUTTING WIRE & IT SHOT UP & HIT PT IN EYE. CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2004 | Age: 32 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: Wire |
| CUTTING A WIRE AND IT HIM IN EYE. DX. R CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wire |
| POKED EYE WITH CAR WIRE EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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