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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 157
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/17/2007 | Age: 49 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 |
| FB L EYE WHILE USING CUTTING TORCH DX; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2007 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY: USING TORCH AT HOME, IT SPARKED (FLASHED) CAUSING BURNING TO RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| 43YMC USING A TORCH AND C/O SOMETHING IN EYE/FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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