Accidents - Clothes dryers - Year 2004 - Eyeball

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 139
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 09/04/2004	Age: 25 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Clothes dryers, Electrical outlets or receptacles
PT.INJ.BIL EYES AT HOME WHEN PLUGGING A ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER INTO AN ELECTRICAL OUTLET & IT SPARKED A BRIGHT FLASH. DX; FLASH BURN BIL EYES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/07/2004	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Clothes dryers
PT. WAS WORKING ON HIS CLOTHES DRYER, GOT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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