Accidents - Welding equipment - 50+ years old - Year 2002 - Eyeball

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 761
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/22/2002	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PT.INJ.BIL EYES AT HOME WHEN USING A WELDER. DX; WELD BURN BIL EYES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2002	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PT WATCHING SOMEONE WELD AND EYES BECAME IRRITATED. DX CORNEAL IRRITATION FROM WELDING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/22/2002	Age: 53 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: Welding equipment
CORNEAL F.B. OS - F.B. IN EYE AFTER WELDING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2002	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
TOOTH OFF HIS SHIELD TO CHANGE THE LENS WHEN HE CAUGHT A BRIEF EXPOSUE OF UV LIGHT WHILE WELDING. UV KERATITUS $
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/10/2002	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Welding equipment
54 YO M WELDING W/O SHIELD GOT WELDING MATERIAL IN EYE BURN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2002	Age: 62 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
BURN TO OU FROM WELDING. WELDED ALL AFTERNOON. DX; FLASH BURNS OU
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/04/2002	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PT WELDING AT HIS SONS HOUSE SUSTAINED RADIATIONS FLASH BURNS TO BOTH E YES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/04/2002	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
55 Y M WAS WELDING UNSPECIFIED WHERE AND GOT FOREIGN BODY IN EYE. DX: FOREIGHN BODY IN RIGHT EYE. NO FIRE DEPT CALL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2002	Age: 55 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: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment, Eye protection devices
FLASH BURN EYE - PATIENT WAS WELDING YESTERDAY - HE WAS WEARING HIS GOG GLES BUT THIS MORNING HE WOKE UP IN SEVERE PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2002	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
FLASHBURN EYES - VICTIM REPORTS HE WAS WELDING AND GRINDING YESTERDAY O N CARS AND THIS MORNING HE WOKE WITH RIGHT EYE BURNING AND IRRITATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/21/2002	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PHOTOKERATITIS SECONDARY TO WELDING BURNS AT FRIEND'S HOUSE-NO EYE PROT ECTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2002	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PATIENT WAS WELDING AT HOME, EYE ARE NOW BURNING. DX-WELDING BURN TO EYES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/07/2002	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Welding equipment
58 YOM COMPLAINED OF REDNESS, BURNING & IRRITATION OF BOTH EYES. HAD BE EN DOING SOME WELDING AT HOME. CONJUNCTIVITIS, BILATERAL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/15/2002	Age: 58 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: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PATIENT HAS EYE PAIN AFTER WATCHING FRIEND WELD. NOT WEARING EYE PROTECTION. D: WELDER'S KERATITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2002	Age: 59 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PT WELDING AT HOME SUSTAINED A BILATERAL RADIATION BURNS TO EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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