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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,109
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2002 | 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| RIGHT EYE CONT. PT HIT HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH A WRENCH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2002 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PAIN TO EYE HIT WITH PLIERS DX: ABRASION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| BROTHER THREW PLIERS AT HIM CONTUSION CONJUNCTIVA SCLERA EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2002 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT STRUCK SELF WITH A WRENCH WHILE WORKING ON A CAR DX: SUBCONJUCTIVAL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2002 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HIT W/ RUBBER HANDLE OF PLIERS IN LT EYE. ACUTE LT EYE SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMMORHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| 19YM WORKING ON HOUSE PROJECT AT HOME WITH WRENCH DX; CONTUSION TO L EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2002 | 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT USING AN ALLEN WRENCH AT HOME WHEN HE STRUCK HIMSELF IN THE RIGHT EY E ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WAS POKED IN EYE W/WIRE SNIPS. DX: R EYE CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PATIENT SUSTAINED CONTUSION TO EYE AFTER HAVING TOOTH PULLED BY DENTIST AND GOT HIT IN THE EYE WITH PLIERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2002 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT USING A PAIR OF PLIERS AT HOME WHEN THEY SLIPPED STRUCK SELF IN THE RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2002 | Age: 15 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Manual push mowers |
| SLIPT RECEIVED CORNEAL ABRASION WHEN PUTTING PUSH MOWER TOGETHER WRENCH SLIPPED AND GOT SOMETHING INTO EYE CAUSING ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT C/O THUMB SLIPPED OFF WRENCH AND GOT HIT IN HIS RT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2002 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| HIT HIMSELF ACCIDENTALLY IN LEFT EYE WITH WRENCH. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION, LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2002 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| STUCK PLIERS IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2002 | Age: 43 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| CONTUSION EYE - VICTIM STATES HE HIT HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH A WRENCH W HEN HE WAS WORKING ON HIS CAR - RUSTY TORQUE WRENCH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2002 | Age: 24 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| FIXING BRAKES ON CAR AND HIT RIGTH EYE WITH WRENCH. RIGHT LID BLUNT TR AUMA, MONOR LACERATION, CONJUNCTIVAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2002 | 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| USING SOCKET WRENCH WITH ELBOW JOINT ON HIS CAR, TOOL EXPLODED, SHARDSO F METAL SPRAYED. DX CORNEAL ABRASION, TRAUMATIC ISITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WAS WORKING ON CAR CHANGING BRAKES WITH PLIERS, & HE HIT HIMSELFIN E YE WITH GRIP END OF PLIERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| WORKING ON MOTHER'S CAR AT HOME AT 2240, PULLING ON SPRING W/NEEDLE NOSE PLIERS, PLIERS SLIPPED & POKED IN EYE. DX BRUISE RT EYE W/LAC EYEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| POKE SELF IN EYE WITH PLIERS. DX: HYPHEMA TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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