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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 843
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/29/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| 26YO HISP MALE AT HOME - HAMMERING A NAIL,IT CAME OUT HIT PT IN EYE, NLOC,DX CORNEAL ABRASION,OPEN GLOBE INJURY R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/22/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| 27YO HISP MALE STS PIECE OF METAL WENT INTO EYE WHEN USING A HAMMER AT HOME, DX METALLIC FOREIGN BODY IN L EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2008 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hammers |
| WAS PLAYING WITH A MALLET, THAT HAD A HOOK ON ONE END, & SHE HOOKED HER LOWER EYELID- BLEEDING FROM EYE. DX; CONJUNCTIVAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| HAMMERING NAIL, PIECE FLEW UP, WENT INTO EYE. INTEROCCULAR FB, LEFT E YE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| CORNEAL AB-CONCRETE DEBRIS IN EYE WHILE HAMMERING-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| TRAUMA RT.EYE.PT.REFERS WHILE USING A HAMMER A NAIL POP -UP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2008 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| HAMMERING A NAIL INTO WOOD AND NAIL CAME BACK OUT HITTINE PT IN THE RT EYE. CONTUSION WITH ABRASION TO THE RT EYE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers, Power workshop grinders, buffers or polishers |
| 36 YOM FOREIGN BODY TO EYE CLEANING WORKSHOP AT HOME LAID HAMMER DOWN HIT ON SWITCH FOR GRINDER SOMETHING FROM GRINDER FLEW IN EYE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT NOTICED REDNESS ON R EYE AFTER HAMMERING. 0 KNOWN INJURY. SUBCONJU NCTIVAL HEMORRHGE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2008 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| REPORTS YESTERDAY WHILE HAMMERING DEVELOPED EYE FOREIGN BODY SENSATION& NOW RED&VERY IRRITATED>>CORNEAL ABR/ULCER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT HAMMERING CEMENT AT HOME AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE DX/ RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS HAMMERING AND A PIECE OF ROCK HIT HIS EYE. DX: L CORNEAL PERFORATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 08/14/2008 | Age: 31 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: Hammers |
| PT GOT CORNEAL AB AFTER GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE HAMMERING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| RIGHT EYE CORN ABR. PT WAS HAMMERING WHEN SOMETHING FLEW INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| RIGHT EYE CORN ABR. PT WAS POUNDING METAL WITH A HAMMER AND A PIECE FLE W INTO EYE, |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT USED A HAMMER AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PT WAS WORKING UNDER HIS TRAILER WITH A HAMMER AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN RIGHT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 35 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: Hammers |
| CHIPPING TILE WITH HAMMER AND PIECE WENT INTO EYE ABRADING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2008 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hammers |
| PATIENT HAD A PIECE OF METAL IN EYE FROM A SLEDGE HAMMER, C/O EYE PAIN. DX-FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYEBALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2008 | Age: 41 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: Hammers, Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers |
| PT C/O L EYE PAIN,BLURRED VISION,POSS PIECE OF METAL IN EYE WHILE HAMMERING OR GRINDING, DX FOREIGN BODY L EYE WITH RUST RING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2008 | Age: 49 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: Hammers |
| 49 YO M FOREIGN BODY TO EYE WHILE HAMMERING STEEL AT HOME FELT SOMETHING WENT INTO EYE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hammers, Awls, chisels or planes |
| WAS USING A HAMMER AND CHISEL WHILE BREAKING UP CONCRETE. CORNEAL ABRA SION, BOTH EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | 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: Hammers |
| C/O TRAUMATIC EYE PAIN BURSTING CONCRETE WITH SLEDGE HAMMER, GOT PIECE OF CONCRETE IN EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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