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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 215
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/06/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarette or pipe lighters |
| PT RAN INTO A LIT CIGARETTE THAT MOTHER WAS HOLDING SUSTAINED A THERMAL BURN TO LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2002 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarette or pipe lighters |
| ABRASION (L) EYEBALL, PT EXPOSED TO SMOKE WHEN SOMEONE SMOKED CIGARETTE AT HER HOME, C/O EYE DISCHARGE, REDNESS. BLURRED VISION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarette or pipe lighters, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| FOREIGN BODY TO EYE, WHILE LIGHTING CIGARETTE, PIECE OF CIGARETTE LIGHT ER FLEW INTO EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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