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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 367
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/23/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| WHILE GRINDING TRUCK PART PIECE OF METAL GOT INTO RT. EYE DX: FOREIGN BODY RT. EYE W/ CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT IS A RACE CAR DRIVER AND WAS USING A POWER GRINDER ON THE WHEELWHEEL OF HIS RACE CAR GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2002 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| SOMETHING FLEW UP FROM PORTABLE POWERED GRINDER DX. FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER AT HOME ON SOME METAL GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2002 | Age: 25 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT USING A POWER GRINDER AGAINST SOME METAL GOT A PIECE IN LEFT EYE FOR EIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2002 | Age: 16 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 workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| C/O FB TO LT EYE. WAS GRINDING METAL WITHOUT SAFETY GLASSES. DX; FB LTE YE-RESOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| SOMETHING FLEW UP FROM POWER GRINDER DX. CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2002 | Age: 22 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| GRINDING METAL 2 DAYS AGO AND NOW HAS PIECE OF METAL IN EYE DX FOREIGN BODY IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2002 | 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: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| PT WAS INJURED USING A GRINDER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| GRINDING METAL AT SCHOOL, GOT FB IN EYE. DX: FB EYE REMOVED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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