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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 283
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2003 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| PW TO EYE WHEN STRUCK BY A NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/11/2003 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| WHILE HITTING A NAIL WITH A HAMMER PIECE OF NAIL FLEW OFF AND SUCK IN E YE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2003 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| R EYE PAIN AFTER NAIL HIT PT IN EYE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2003 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| DIRECT TRAUMA RT EYE-A NAIL HIT PT IN THE EYE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2003 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| HIT IN THE EY W/ A NAIL TRF TO WILLMERS EYE ED RIGHT EYE PUNCTURE WOUND EYE TRAUMA VISION PROBLEMS |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/21/2003 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| CORNEAL ABRASION. BREAKING WOOD APART AND NAIL AND WOOD FLEW INTOEYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2003 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| PT HAMMERING A NAIL AT HOME WHEN A PIECE OF THE NAIL WENT INTO LEFT EY E FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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