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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,949
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| 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: 11/07/2007 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PT DX LT HAND CELLULITIS - S/P BURNED WHILE WELDING 2 MONTHS AGO - PAIN AND SWELLING 2 WEEKS AGO. |
| 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: 08/10/2007 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF THE FORHEAD BY FALLING WHILE WELDING AT H OME. |
| 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: 07/21/2007 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PT GOT HIT WITH WELDING ARC AT NEIGHBORS HOME MINOR ELECTROCUTION |
| 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: 07/06/2007 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| A PIECE OF HOT METAL FLEW IN PATIENT'S EAR WHILE HE WAS WELDING. DX-TRAUMATIC PERFORATION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE. |
| 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: 05/19/2007 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| BURNED THUMB WITH WELDING TORCH DX 3RD DEGREE BURN |
| 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: 02/19/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF A FINGER WHILE WELDING AT HOME. |
| 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 |
| Date: 01/07/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Welding equipment |
| BURNED FOOT WHILE WELDING 1 WEEK AGO CELLULITIS LT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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