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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 268
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/25/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| SLAG FROM CUTTING TORCH STRUCK LEFT EYE WAS WEARING PROTECTIVE WEAR DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2002 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| CUTTING METAL WITH A TORCH WHEN SOMETHING FLEW BACK IN HIS EYE. R EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2002 | Age: 51 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: Cutting torches |
| PT DX FOREIGN BODY LT CORNEA - WAS USING A CUTTING TORCH MONDAY AND HAD F.B SENSATION LT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| CUTTING CAB OFF PICKUP AT FRIENDS HOUSE WITH CUTTING TORCH, GOT SOMETHI NG IN EYE. DX; CORNEAL ABRASION, ACUTE EYE PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Cutting torches, Two-wheeled, powered, off-road vehicles |
| PT USED PLASMA CUTTER AND LATER GOT DUST IN EYES RIDING DIRT BIKE. DX: BILAT CORNEAL ABR, UV KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2002 | 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: Cutting torches, House repair or construction materials |
| PATIENT WAS AT HOME USING A TORCH FLAME TO A PIECE OF CONCRETE WHEN A PIECE OF THE CONCRETE GOT IN HIS EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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