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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,274
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/11/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT TRIMMING HIS PALM TREES AT HOME AND GOT POKED IN THE EYE ABRASION EY E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 52 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| ABRSION LT.EYE.PT.REFERS WHILE CLEANING PATIO A TREE BRANCH . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| FB L EYE AFTER TRIMMING TREES DX; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2008 | Age: 54 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Power lawn mowers |
| ABRASION CORNEA - 54 YO MALE REPORTS MOWING LAWN AND WAS HIT IN THE RI GHT EYE BY A TREE BRANCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| PT WAS CUTTING A TREE BRANCH AT CHURCH & IT SPRUNG BACK HITTING PT IN EYE DX: RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Lawn mowers |
| MOWING LAWN AND HIT IN EYE WITH AN EVERGREEN TREE BRANCH. DX CORNEAL AB RASION L EYE# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Lawn mowers |
| PT AT HOME MOWING LAWN HIT FACE BY A TREE BRANCH POSS FB R EYE/ DX FX R EYE (SPRUCE TREE BRANCH) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| CUTTING DOWN A TREE, FB SENSATION R EYE DX; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 57 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT WAS TRIMMING TREE BRANCHES YESTERDAY WHEN ONE STRUCK HIM IN THE EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| DOING LOT OF YARD WORK, 2 DAYS AGO WHILE CUTTING TREE BRANCHES, DEVELOP ED EYE PAIN>> CONJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Furniture |
| MOVING FURNITURE LAST PM, RAN INTO TREE BRANCH, HIT EYE. DX CORNEAL ABR ASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2008 | Age: 55 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT WAS TRIMMING A PALM TREE AT HOME WHEN A PALM FRON STRUCK HIM IN THE RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT TRIMMING TREES IN HER YARD AT HOME AND A BRANCH STRUCK HER IN THE RI GHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| PT WAS CUTTING BRANCH OFF TREE & IT HIT LT EYE, FEELS LIKE SAWDUST IN EYE. DX - CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2007 | Age: 80 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| ABRASION LT.EYE.PT.REFERS WHILE IN PATIO ABRASION ON EYE WITH BRANCH(PL ANTS). |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Electric Christmas decorations |
| PT HIT IN EYE WITH TREE BRANCH PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX// RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2007 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Eyeglasses |
| 62 YOF WAS MOVING PLANTS INDOORS AND ONE OF THE LEAVES HIT HER IN THE E YE UNDER HER EYEGLASSES, PT SUSTAINED A CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2007 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Manual pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT WITH CONJUNCTIVA INJURY FROM PRUNING A TREE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2007 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| WALKING IN THE GARDEN, STUMBLED&FELLHITTING EYE ONTO PLANT STICK >> CONJ LAC/CORNEAL ABRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2007 | Age: 72 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Batteries |
| 72 YO M L EYE CONJUNCTIVITS PT HAD BEEN WORKING WITH A BATTERY AND THEN TOUCHED A PLANT NOT SURE WHICH CAUSED IRRITANT* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2007 | Age: 68 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT TRIMMING A TREE WHEN HIT ON EYE WITH A TREE BRANCH. D: CORNEAL ULCER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2007 | Age: 69 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| SOF EYE FBS WHILE CHOPPING TREES " FB REMOVAL" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2007 | Age: 52 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Lawn mowers |
| 52 YO M CONTUSION TO EYEBALL HIT BY TREE BRANCH WHILE MOWING THE GRASS * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| PIECE OF WOOD IN EYE, CUTTING TREE LIMBDX FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2007 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| GOT TWIG INTO EYE TRIMMING TH BRUSHES " SUBCONJ HEAMORRHAGE'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2007 | Age: 56 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Power lawn mowers |
| TREE BRANCH HIT WHILE MOWING GRASS LEFT EYE RIGHT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2007 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT WAS TRIMMING A TREE WHEN A BRANCH FELL AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE. UNKNO WN TYPE OF TRIMMING TOOL. DX. CONJUNCTIVITIS NO WORK RELATED- RETIRED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2007 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Tools |
| SAP IN EYE WHILE TRIMMING SHRUBS CHEMICAL EXPOSURE EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Other unpowered garden tools |
| CORNEAL AB-PT RAN INTO A TREE LIMB WHILE RAKING YARD-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2007 | Age: 56 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Bathtubs or showers |
| PT LIFTING SAGUARO PLANT,HAD SAP ON FINGER,THEN TOOK SHOWER,POSS RELEASED SAP IN EYE,LIP,MOUTH,DX CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2006 | Age: 56 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Other unpowered garden tools |
| ACC POKED INTO EYE BY A TREE BRANCH WHILE RAKING LEAVES " CORNEAL ABRS " |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2006 | 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| R CORNEAL ABRAS/63YOM STS LAST NIGHT WAS TRIMMING BRUSH WHEN BRANCH HIT HIM IN R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Manual hedge trimmers |
| TRIMMING HEDGES FB WENT INTO EYE USING MANUAL HEDGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2006 | Age: 63 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| PT TRIMMING AND CLIPPING BAMBOO WHEN FOREIGN BODY GOT INTO EYE. D: CORN EAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2006 | 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: Plants, trees and shrubs, Horseback riding |
| L CORNEAL ABRASION; HIT IN EYE BY TREE BRANCH WHILE RIDING HORSES EARLI ER THIS EVENING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2006 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE 'TRIMMING IVY' IN YARD DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Chain saws |
| PT USING CHAIN SAW CUTTING TREES AND GOT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE DX// LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2006 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Pruning or trimming equipment |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 80 YOM STATES WAS CUTTING A HOLLY BUSH AND SOMETHING GOT INTO RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2006 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Manual pruning or trimming equipment |
| 62 Y/O F INJURED L EYE WHEN PIECE OF JUNIPTER GOT INTO EYE WHILE PRUNI NG AT HOME. DX; L EYE FOREIGN BODY, REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2006 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Lawn mowers |
| C/O R EYE PAIN, HIT IN EYE WITH STICK WHILE MOWING, DX; CORNEAL ABRASION/ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2006 | 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Rope or string |
| PT TYING UP A PENCIL CACTUS, GOT SAP ON FINGERS AND THEN RUBBED EYE DXL: ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2006 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Plants, trees and shrubs, Greenhouse or gardening supplies |
| PT AT A YARD SALE WHEN LIFTED CACTUS IN A POT. DROPPED IT AND POT BROKE . PT W/ FOREIGN BODY SENSATION IN EYE. D:CORNEAL ABRASION, KERATITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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