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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 273
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/25/2002 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| SLAG FROM CUTTING TORCH STRUCK LEFT EYE WAS WEARING PROTECTIVE WEAR DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| =17YOM BURNED HAND ON TORCH AT HOME DX/THERMAL BURN L HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Cutting torches, Two-wheeled, powered, off-road vehicles |
| PT USED PLASMA CUTTER AND LATER GOT DUST IN EYES RIDING DIRT BIKE. DX: BILAT CORNEAL ABR, UV KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cutting torches, House repair or construction materials |
| PATIENT WAS AT HOME USING A TORCH FLAME TO A PIECE OF CONCRETE WHEN A PIECE OF THE CONCRETE GOT IN HIS EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN TO RT HAND ACCIDENTLY BURNED W/CUTTING TORCH. DX : 2 DEGREE BURN RT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| BURN TO LOWER EXTREMITIES, WAS USING A PROPANE TORCH TO HEAT A TRACK AT A RACE RACK AND BURNED LEGS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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