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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,023
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/26/2006 | 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: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| 52 YO M WITH WELDERS FLASH* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2006 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| SOMETHING IN EYE WELDING TODAY DX: FB R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2006 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PT WAS WELDING EARLIER IN THE DAY. DX: BILAT UV KERATITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| FB LEFT EYE.PT WAS WELDING AND DUST GOT INTO EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2006 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PATIENT IS SELF EMPLOYED AND WAS WELDING WITHOUT PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR NOW PRESENTS WITH BURNING WATERY EYES -FLASH BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2006 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PAIN TO EYES AFTER WELDING AT HOME DX: CORNEAL BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2006 | Age: 51 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: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PT SUSTAINED A WELDER'S BURN OF THE EYES AFTER WELDING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PT WAS GALVANIZED HELIARC WELDING AT HOME TODAY. DX: BILAT UV KERATITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2006 | Age: 58 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: Welding equipment |
| BILAT CORNEAL ABBRASIONS; HAS BEEN WELDING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2006 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| UV KERATITIS;CONJUNCTIVITIS/60YOM STS WAS HELPING A FRIEND WELD THIS AF TERNOON. BEGAN WITH IRRITATION IN BOTH EYES. C/O INCREASING PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2006 | 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: Welding equipment |
| PATIENT GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE WELDING AT HOME DX: ABRASION RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2006 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PATIENT HAD BEEN WELDING EARLIER TODAY, WENT TO SLEEP, EYES NOW BURNING. DX-FLASH BURN TO EYES, WELDER'S BURN, EYE PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2006 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment, Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| BIL EYE PAIN AFTER WELDING AND GRINDING/ UV KERATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2006 | Age: 72 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: Welding equipment |
| ACUTE CORNEAL ABRAS;HEMMORAGE/72YOM STS DOING SOME WELDING AT HOME AND FELT SOMETEHING IN R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2006 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| WELDING, THINKS HE HAS SLAG IN EYE/ FB RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2006 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Welding equipment, Floor lamps or table lamps |
| 53 YO MALE WAS WELDING LAMP ACTIVIA VERATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2006 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| WELDING, C/O SEVERE EYE PAIN, DX; WELDERS BURN/ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2006 | Age: 57 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE-WELDING YESTERDAY SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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