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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 571
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/30/2009 | 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 |
| LEFT CORN ABR. PT POKED HIMSELF IN EYE WITH A PAIR OF NEEDLE NOSED PLIE RS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2009 | Age: 46 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, Cabinet or door hardware |
| PT STAES A PAIR OF NEEDLE NOSE PLIERS SLIPPED OFF SPRING AND POKED SELF IN EYE AT HOME DX: LARGE RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2009 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches, Electrical wire or wiring systems |
| STRIPPING ELECTRICAL WIRING AT HOME YEST & HIT SELF IN EYE W/WIRE PLIER S,EYE PAIN/REDNESS,BLURRY VISION; RUPTURED GLOBE W/LAC & UVEAL PROLAPSE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/29/2009 | Age: 17 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 |
| 17YOM LOST GRIP OF NEEDLE NOSE PLIERS AND HIT RIGHT EYE C/O BLURRED VIS ION. DX:RIGHT CORNEAL ABRASION,RIGHT CONJUNCTIVAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2009 | Age: 25 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 |
| 25YO WHITE MALE POKED IN L EYE WITH PLIERS,C/O L EYE PAIN & SWELLING DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2009 | Age: 54 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 |
| STUCK SELF IN EYEBALL WITH PLIERS ACCIDENTALLY CORNEAL ABRASION * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2009 | Age: 48 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 AND ACCIDENTALLY HIT SELF IN EYE WITH A WRENCH DX: RIGHT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2009 | Age: 47 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 WITH CORNEAL ABRASION, STRUCK SELF WITH *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT WAS HIT IN EYE W/PLIERS. DX: CONJUNCTIVAL TEAR, DOUBLE VISION R EYE, ORBITAL ECCHYMOSIS, TRAUMATIC SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2009 | Age: 18 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: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| PT CUT SOMETHING WITH WIRE CUTTERS, METAL FLEW INTO RT EYE AND SHAT- TERED HARD CONTACT LENSES. DX-FOREIGN BODY-RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2009 | Age: 26 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 |
| 26Y/O,M,CUTTING WITH TIN SNIPS, THINKS PIECE OF WOOD IN EYE, CORNEAL AB RASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2009 | Age: 32 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, Nails, screws, carpet tacks or thumbtacks |
| CUTTING A STRIPPED SCREW WITH WIRE CUTTERS THE HEAD OF THE SCREW CAME UP AND HIT IN EYE CORNEAL ABRASION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Pliers, wire cutters or wrenches |
| 50 YOM WAS HIT IN EYE WITH NEEDLENOSE PLIERS SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2009 | Age: 18 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 |
| C/O FOREIGN BODY IN EYE ACCIDENTALLY HIT SELF IN LEFT EYE WITH PLIERS. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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