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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 920
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/25/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS ***, ROCK FLEW IN EYE, L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2009 | Age: 58 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| CORNEAL ABRASION L EYE: 58YOM USING *** @ HOME, NOT USING EYE PROTECTIO N, DIRT OR GRASS WENT IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 57YOF WEED EATING AT HOME WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY GLASSES FELT SOMETHING BRUSH RT EYE;CONJUNCTIVITIS RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2009 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| GOT FB IN EYE AFTER USING *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2009 | Age: 59 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION/ACUTE EYE PAIN WITH CONJUNCTIVITIS - HIT IN EYE BY A ROCK WHILE WEEDEATING ON MONDAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2009 | Age: 59 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| DX ALLERGIC RHINITIS/ALLERGIC CONJ: W "WACK'G WEEDS" & EYE STARTED TO WATER THE R FACIAL REDNESS UNDER EYE. INC' LACRIMATION R EYE W ITCH'G |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2009 | Age: 53 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT USING A *** AT HOME AND GOT SOMETHING EMBEDDED IN RIGHT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2009 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT REPORTS THAT HE WAS WEED EATING YEST, SOMETHING HIT PT IN EYE. DX. FB EYE, CONJUNCTIVITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| ANAPHYLACTIC REACTION TO 5 BEE STINGS IN LAST 30 MINS/ BOTH EYES,BRIDGE OF NOSE USING *** DX BEE STINGS * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2009 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WAS WEED EATING WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE.DX: R EYE SUBCONJUNCTI VAL HEMORRHAGE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2009 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT USING A *** IN HIS YARD AT HOME WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO RIGHT EYE C ORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2009 | Age: 60 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| LT EYE PAIN AFTER USING ***/ FB REMOVAL, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2009 | 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| HIT WITH OBJECT IN EYE WHILE WEEDEATING CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2009 | Age: 75 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT. WHILE *** FELT SOMETHING SCRAPE ON EYE. HAD GLASSES ON.DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2009 | Age: 63 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: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION: USING *** ***, DRY CHUNK OF DIRT FLEW UPAND HIT HI M IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2009 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS USING A *** AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2009 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| USING *** AT HOME, GOT SOMETHING IN EYE. DX CORNEAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2009 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| PT WITH CORNEAL ABRASION, WHILE *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2009 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| 61YO HISP MALE USING *** & WAS HIT IN L EYE BY FLYING OBJECT,L EYE BLOO D RED, DX L SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2009 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Lawn trimmers or edgers, powered |
| DEBRIS IN EYE WHILE WEEDEATING CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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