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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 170
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Water polo, Swimming pools |
| 13 YOM WAS PLAYING WATER POLO IN AN INDOOR POOL, STATES HE WAS HIT BY ANOTHER PLAYER, WAS HIT IN THE EYE. DX-CONJUNCTIVAL TEAR/ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Water polo |
| PATIENT WOKE UP WITH LEFT EYE PAIN AND REDNESS, HAD SOME WATERING, HADR ECENTLY STARTED PLAYING WATER POLO. DX-LEFT EYE CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2007 | Age: 15 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: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Water polo |
| PT WAS PLAYING WATER POLO IN A POOL, HAD ANOTHER PLAYERS FINGER STUCK IN EYE CAUSING A SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE & ABRASION TO LT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2007 | Age: 20 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: Water polo |
| PT WAS PLAYING WATERPOLO WHEN HE WAS POKED IN EYE BY A TEAMMATE. D: EYE CONTUSION, CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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