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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 179
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BROKE AND GOT IN EYE;DX FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 4 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: Christmas tree lights, Christmas decorations |
| PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN ACCIDENTALLY POKED HIMSELF IN EYE WITH M INI CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BULB; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2006 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Female | 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: Christmas tree lights |
| DYE-FILLED CHRISTMAS TRE LIGHTBULB BROKE ON HER HAND, SHE THEN RUBBED HER EYES AND SCREAMED DX:CONJUNCTIVITIS, EYE IRRITANT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2004 | Age: 4 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: Christmas tree lights |
| CHRISTMAS LIGHT BROKE AND THINKS PIECE WENT INTO EYE. DX. ACUTE CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/29/1999 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/1999 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Christmas tree lights |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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