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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 566
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/19/2008 | Age: 57 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT HIT SELF IN EYE W/WRENCH WHILE WORKING ON CAR. DX: R CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 29 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT HAD INJURY TO EYEBALL- FROM WRENCH-LEFT EYE TRAUMA-LEFT PTOSIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WORKING ON CAR WITH PLIERS AT HOME SLIPPED OUT OF HAND HIT EYE RT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT STATED WRENCH SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS AND HI HIS EYE WORKING ON HIS CAR TO NIGHTS AGO SCLERAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WAS JABBED IN EYE WITH A NEEDLENOSE PLIER, SUBCONJUNCTIVEHEMORRHAGE OF RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2008 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| SCLERAL LAC-HIT EYE W/A NEEDLENOSE PLIERS-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HIT IN EYE WITH PLIERS AND SUSTAINED HYPHEMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE-ACCIDENTLY HIT SELF W/ PLIERS-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT PULLING ON A SPRING WHEN REPAIRING HIS CAR. NEEDLE NOSE PLIERS BOUNC ED BACK & STRUCK EYE. D:PENETRATING TRAUMA TO EYE, POSSIBLE GLOBE RUPTU |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT GOT FOREIGN BODY IN EYE WHILE USING AN AIR WRENCH. DX: RIGHT EYE IRRITATION POST FOREIGN BODY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT GOT FOREIGN BODY IN EYE WHILE USING AN INMPACT WRENCH. DX: FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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