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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 158
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/01/2006 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| 47 Y/O M INJURED R EYE WHILE USING WOOD CHIPPER AT HOME. DX; R CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2006 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| WOOD FROM CHIPPER FLEW INTO EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2006 | Age: 30 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: Power leaf mulchers and grinders |
| PATIENT WAS USING A WOOD CHIPPER, FOREIGN BODY GOT IN EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION, FOREIGN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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