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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 685
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives |
| 21YOM INJ.L.EYE AT HOME WHEN HUGGING HIS GRANDMA & SHE HAD A KNIFE IN HER HAND & ACCIDENTLY POKED PTS.EYE. DX;SUPERFICIAL L.CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2009 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives |
| HIT IN EYE WITH KNIFE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Knives |
| 8YOM W/HEMOPHILIA A, POKED HIMSELF IN EYE W/A BUTTER KNIFE WHILE EATING DINNER, NOW W/REDNESS TO SCLERA & EYE PAIN; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Knives |
| PATIENT MAKING SANDWICH AT GRANDMA'S HOUSE LAST NIGHT, HIT HIMSELF IN E YE WITH BLUNT END OF BUTTER KNIFE; CORNEAL LAC, RUPTURED GLOBE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/23/2009 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives |
| 49 YOF CUTTING STEAD WITH KNIFE, INADVERTANTLY TOUCHED TIP OF KNIFE TO CORNER OF RIGHT EYE, NOW WITH CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2009 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Knives, Doors |
| 15 YOM, TRYING TO OPEN DOOR WITH BUTTER KNIFE, SLIPPED KNIFE HIT EYE, H EMORRHAGE EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2009 | Age: 21 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: Knives |
| 21YOF CUTTING A TREE BRANCH WITH A MACHETE AND THE BRANCH SNAPPED BACK INTO LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2009 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives, Panelboards, circuit breakers, ground fault circuit interrupters |
| EYE ABRASION-WAS USING A KNIFE TO POP OUT A FUSE AND THE FUSE BROKE AND GLASS WENT IN EYE AT THE GAS STATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2009 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Knives, Rope or string |
| 6Y/O,M,CUTTING STRING WITH POCKETKNIFE, KNIFE SLIPPED & CUT HIS PUPIL, ADMITTED, RUPTURED GLOBE OS, HYPHEMA OS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/29/2009 | Age: 6 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: Knives |
| WAS POKED IN EYE WHILE PLAYING WITH SWORD CONTUSION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2009 | Age: 4 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: Knives, Plastic bags |
| PT TRYING TO OPEN A PLASTIC BAG OF BAGELS WITH A BUTTER KNIFE AND THE K NIFE POKED IN THE LEFT EYE ABRAIONS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2009 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives, Footwear |
| HIT SELF IN EYE WITH KNIFE CUTTING SHOE LACE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives, Plastic wrapping products |
| WAS TRYING TO OPEN TOY PACKAGE W/ A KNIFE WAS PULLING @ THE PACKAGE AND THE KNIFE CAME BACK AND HIT HER IN THE EYE. DX CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2009 | Age: 38 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: Knives |
| CORNEAL AB-ACCIDENTLY HIT EYE W/A KNIFE WHILE HORSING AROUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2009 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Knives |
| POKED EYE WITH KNIFE;DX CONTUSED EYEBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2009 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Knives |
| PT STATES DEBRIS IN EYE WHILE USING WALL SCRAPER FOREIGN BODY RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2009 | Age: 2 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: Knives |
| PT WITH ABRASION TO EYE, GOT HOLD OF A KNIFE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/05/2009 | Age: 9 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: Other |
| Product: Knives |
| PT ACCID POKED HIMSELF IN THE R EYE YEST W/ A PLASTIC KNIFE. HAS REDNES S IN CORNER OF R EYE. DX R SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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