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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 376
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2006 | Age: 43 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: Leaf blowers |
| PT DOING YARD WORK,USED LEAF BLOWER,POSS SOMETHING BLOWN INTO EYE C/O REDNESS,FOREIGN BODY SENSATION R EYE,DX CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2006 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Leaf blowers, Eye protection devices |
| BLOWING LEAVES AND WEARING GOGGLES AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE CORNEAL ABR ASION/FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2006 | 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: Leaf blowers |
| PT USING LEAF BLOWER AT HOME, PAIN TO EYE, CORNEAL ABRASION TO RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2006 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| CORNEAL AB-DEBRIS WHILE USING A POWER BLOWER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2006 | Age: 18 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: Leaf blowers |
| 18YOM USING LEAF BLOWER FB IN EYE MILD 2 DEGREE PROBABLE FB CONJUNCTI VITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2006 | Age: 40 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: Leaf blowers |
| PT HAS FOREIGN BODY SENSATION TO EYE WHILE USING LEAF BLOWER. D: METALL IC FOREIGN BODY WITH RUST RING, EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2006 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Leaf blowers |
| CORNEAL ABRASION R EYEBALL, PT GOT DEBRIS WHEN SOMEONE BLOWING LEAVES IN THE PARK, C/O PAIN, REDNESS, PHOTOPHOBIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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