Accidents - Welding equipment - 50+ years old - Year 2007 - Eyeball

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,622
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Date: 12/31/2007	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
FEELS LIKE THERE IS SOMETHING IN RIGHT EYE AFTER WELDING DX: FOREIGN BODY IN RIGHT EYE, REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/25/2007	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
FB TO L EYE WHILE WELDING DX; FB REMOVAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/09/2007	Age: 72 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: Welding equipment
WAS WELDING FB WENT INTO EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2007	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, Eye protection devices
53YOM WAS HOME WELDING WAS WEARING GOGGLES,HAD A FLASH BURN TO THE EYES ;FLASH BURN TO BOTH EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2007	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
BURN TO BOTH EYES BY WELDING BURN TO EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/21/2007	Age: 51 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
PT AT UNSTATED LOCALE USING A WELDER L EYE PAIN/ DX L EYE FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/19/2007	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE USING A WELDER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/2007	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
PT GOT FB IN EYE WHILE WELDING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/15/2007	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
WELDING, GOT SOMETHING IN EYE. DX; CORNEAL ABRASION, FB REMOVED EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2007	Age: 69 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 HAS EYE PAIN ULTRAVIOLET KERATITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/01/2007	Age: 54 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: Welding equipment
PATIENT WAS WATCHING HIS FRIEND WELD, NOT WEARING PROTECTIVE GOGGLES, AND HE DEVEL. INTENSE EYE IRRITATION. DX-BILATERAL CORNEAL ABRASIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2007	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
FB SENSATION RT EYE AFTER WELDING/ FB RT EYE REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/23/2007	Age: 52 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
CORNEAL BURN D/T WELDING/52YOM C/O BURNING EYES AFTER WELDING THIS PM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/21/2007	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
PT STATES HE WAS DOING SOME WELDING AND STIRRED UP DUST, GOT PIECE OF M ETAL IN L EYE. DX. FB L EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/14/2007	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
WELDING YESTERDAY AT HOME UV KERATITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/30/2007	Age: 54 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 WAS WELDING. DX: BILAT UV KERATITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2007	Age: 63 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
EYE FB-DEBRIS IN EYE WHILE WELDING-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/07/2007	Age: 57 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 WAS WATCHING HIS FRIEND WELD YESTERDAY AND GOT TOO CLOSE NOW EYES B URN RADIATION BURNS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/06/2007	Age: 56 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
WELDER'S FLASH B/L EYES-WELDING TODAY-EYES STARTED BURNING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2007	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
FLASH BURN TO RIGHT EYE DUE TO WELDING WITHOUT GOGGLES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/23/2007	Age: 52 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
PT C/O OF EYE PAIN, STATES A PIECE OF METAL FLEW IN EYE WHILE HE WAS WE LDING. DX: FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/29/2007	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, Workshop grinders, buffers, or polishers
WELDING AND GRINDING, HAS EYE IRRITATION. DX: UV KERATITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/14/2007	Age: 64 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
WELDING WITHOUT GLASSES, BURNING PAIN TO EYE UV KERATITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/03/2007	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Welding equipment
PT REPORTS A SPARK HIT HIS R EYE WHILE WELDING ON SATURDAY. DX. R CORN EAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/28/2007	Age: 53 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Welding equipment, Eye protection devices
53 YOM WAS WELDING AT HOME WITH SHIELD ON, TOOK OFF AND A PIECE OF META L FLEW INTO HIS RIGHT EYE SUSTAINING A CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2007	Age: 58 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
EYE PAIN AFTER WELDING / UV KERATITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/14/2007	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment, Eye protection devices
WHILE WELDING AT HOME ALL DAY WEARING EYE PROTECTION DEVICE GOT FB IN E YE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/12/2007	Age: 51 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
WELDING WITHOUT HELMET, BOTH EYES BURNT DX WELDING BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/20/2007	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Radiation
Product: Welding equipment
PT W/EYE PAIN AFTER WELDING TODAY AT HOME. DX. ULTRAVIOLET KERATITIS R /L EYES.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/09/2007	Age: 58 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Welding equipment
PATIENT WAS WELDING AND GOT A PIECE OF METAL IN HIS EYE. DX-FOREIGN BODY CORNEA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/08/2007	Age: 52 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: Welding equipment
PATIENT HURT EYES WHILE WELDING. (NO DETAILS) DX: CORNEAL ABRASIONS FROM WELDING ARC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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