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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 242
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2008 | 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: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| SPEAKER WIRE POKED EYE CORNEAL ABRASION # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | 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: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| 27 YOM WAS POKED IN EYE WITH ELECTRICAL WIRE THIS MORNING CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2008 | Age: 47 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: Other |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| C/O EYE PAIN, DECREASE IN VISUAL ACUITY AFTER STRUCK ONTO EYE WITH AN E LECTRIC SPARKS FROM ELECTRIC WIRE>>EYE INJUREY/LOSS OF VISION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| PULLING WIRE OUT OF CONDUIT AND WAS POKED IN EYE/ FB OD W/SUBCONJUNCTIV AL HEMORRHAGE AND ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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