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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 167
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/03/2002 | Age: 24 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: Hatchets or axes |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: CHOPPING WOOD WITH AX, PIECE FLEW AND HIT EYE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| WHILE CHOPPING WOOD W/ AXE, GOT PIECE INTO LT. EYE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hatchets or axes, Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| RT EYE FB-@ HOME-SHARPENING AN AXE ON A GRINDER-GOT A SHAVING IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2002 | Age: 19 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hatchets or axes |
| ABRASION CORNEA - VICTIM WHO HAD BEEN DRINKING WAS CHOPPING WOOD A ND GOT A PIECE OF WOOD INTO HIS LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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