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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,314
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/19/2010 | Age: 54 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 54YOM DOING CONSTRUCTION @ HOME WHEN A NAIL BROKE OFF HITTING EYE >>CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2010 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 41 YOM HIT SELF IN R EYE W/NAIL DXZ: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2010 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 64 YOM HIT IN EYE W/NAIL, PT IS DEAF, MUTE DX: METAL FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2010 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Drills |
| 44 YOM, F.B. EYE, PT. STATE DRILLING A BOLT OUT OF A HOLE (LOCATION NOT NOTED), WITH A DRILL, THINKS A PEICE OF METAL GOT INTO HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2010 | Age: 37 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Nail guns or stud drivers |
| 37YO M USING A NAIL GUN, GOT NAIL SHOT INTO EYE. DX FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2010 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| A 38 YOM WAS POUNDING A NAIL THAT FLEW BACK AND HIT EYE, HEMORRHAGE TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 27YOM WAS HIT IN EYE WITH SCREW WHEN HE WAS WORKING ON A ROOF DX: GLOBE RUPTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2010 | 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Other unpowered garden tools |
| 20YOM CC: EYE TRAUMA. SHOVELING DIRT AT HIS GRNDMOTHERS HOUSE & TURNED, HITTING EYE ON EXPOSD SCREW. DX:CORNEAL ABRASION# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2010 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 33 YOM, NAILING INSULATION TO WALL WOOD IN EYE, FOREING BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/12/2010 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 19MOM PT WAS @ HOME RUNNING WITH A WOODEN SCREW TRIPPED & FELL POKED RIGHT EYE. DX CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2010 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| 23YOM WAS HAMMERING AND NAIL CAME BACK AND HIT L EYE DX- CORNEAL ABRA, TRAUMATIC IRITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2010 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 57 YOM CONTUSION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK BY A NAIL AT HOME - LWBS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/28/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 27YOM-CORNEAL AB-TRIPPED OVER A DOG-HIT EYE ON A NAIL IN THE WALL-@ HOM E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2010 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 2 YO F HIT EYE AGAINST NAIL STICKING OUT OF WOOD CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2010 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 23MOF- MOM SAYS SHE SAW A TACK ON THE GROUND NOW PT IS C/O PAIN TO EYE.MAY HAVE BEEN PLAYING W/ THE TACK. DX CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2010 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 39 YO M, LEFT EYE PAIN AFTER NAIL FLEW AND HIT HIM IN EYE, DX SCLERAL A BRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2010 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| 40 YO M WORKING ON HOUSE AT HOME, HITTING NAIL WITH HAMMER, PIECE OF NA IL FLEW INTO EYE. DX HYPHEMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2010 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 37 YOF HIT IN R EYE W/NAIL DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2010 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 43 YOM WAS HIT IN EYE W/RUST FROM A BOLT. DX: L EYE FB, CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2010 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.35YOM WAS USING A HAMMER ON NAIL AND HEAD OF NAIL H IT PT IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2010 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 20 YOF AN ABRASION OF AN EYE BY A SCREW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2010 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 54YOM CORNEAL ABRASION PULLING SCREW OUT OF THE WALL SOMETHING HIT HIM IN THE EYE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2010 | Age: 60 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| R CORNEAL ABRAS/60YOM STS WAS PULLING OUT NAILS AND ONE BOUNCED INTO HI S EYE. PT BELIEVES IT IS SCRATCHED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2010 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Desks, chests, bureaus or buffets |
| 36YOM GOT SAWDUST IN (L) EYE FROM PUTTING SCREWS IN DESK DX;* (L) EY E PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/20/2010 | Age: 49 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 49YOM, REPORTS A NAIL/SCREW POPPED OUT HITTING EYE, NO LOSS OF VISION >>CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2010 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 52 YR OLD BLACK MALE DX CORNEAL ABRASION - PT C/O PAIN TO LT EYE AFTER BEING HIT WITH NAIL YESTERDAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2010 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 3YOM TRIPPED AND FELL INTO A BOARD WITH A NAIL, HIT HEAD; EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2010 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 16 YOM HIT IN EYE WITH A NAIL DX: LEFT EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2010 | Age: 31 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Chairs |
| CORNEAL F.B.: 31YOM PUTTING A SCREW IN A CHAIR YESTERDAY, FELT SOME- THING GO INTO HIS EYE, RT EYE RED, REDNESS & SWELLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2010 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| 27YOM CORNEAL ABRASION CONTUSION TO EYE, HIT WHEN NAIL HE WAS HAMMERING FLEW BACK AND HIT PT IN THE EYE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Hammers |
| 22YOM WAS HAMMERING A SCREW WHEN IT FLEW BACK AND HIT R EYE DX- CORNEA L ABRA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2010 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| 51 YOM R EYE PAIN GRINDING A BOLT DX: FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2010 | Age: 43 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: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks, Tools |
| 43YOM,WAS REMOVING A NAIL FROM A BOARD&IT CAME UP HITTING PT'S EYE >>CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2010 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 32 YO M WITH FOREIGN BODY SENSATION TO EYE. WAS PUTTING IN SCREW WHEN S CREW STRIPPED OFF & PIECE OF METAL ENTERED EYE. DX:METAL FB. ,EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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