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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 304
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/17/2007 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| FB L EYE WHILE USING CUTTING TORCH DX; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2007 | Age: 27 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: Cutting torches |
| CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY: USING TORCH AT HOME, IT SPARKED (FLASHED) CAUSING BURNING TO RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| 43YMC USING A TORCH AND C/O SOMETHING IN EYE/FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2007 | 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: Cutting torches, Coins |
| A PIECE OF METAL FLEW FROM A PENNY THAT WAS MELTING C BLOW TORCH INTO E YE " FBR'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| PT INJ LT EYE WHILE USING A TORCH AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2007 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation |
| Product: Cutting torches |
| PT WAS USING A PLASMA CUTTER ON METAL FOR THE FIRST TIME WITHOUT ANY PR OTECTIVE EYEWEAR DEVELOPED RADIATION BURNS TO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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