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About 300,000 Americans visit the emergency room each year due to workplace eye injury. Out of all eye injuries sustained on the job, 40 percent happen in the fields of manufacturing, construction and mining, ing to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

More than 2,000 people injure their eyes at work each day. About 1 in 10 injuries require one or more missed workdays to recover from. Of the total amount of work-related injuries, 10-20 % will cause temporary or permanent vision loss.

Feel for abnormalities in your eyeball and the bones and muscles surrounding your eye. Look for foreign objects in the eye. Test your vision, dilate your pupils and use special equipment to look inside your eye during an eye exam. Depending on the type of injury, your provider may also order imaging studies.

40% of on-the-job eye injuries happen in the manufacturing, construction, and mining industries.

Contact with objects or equipment led to the majority (11,980 cases) of eye injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in 2020. Of these cases, 59.6 percent resulted from the worker rubbing or being abraded by foreign matter in the eye.

What Causes Eye Injuries? Flying particles. Almost 70% of eye injuries result from flying or falling objects or sparks striking the eye. Injured workers estimated that nearly three-fifths of the objects were smaller than a pin head.

Striking or scraping: The majority of eye injuries result from small particles or objects striking or scraping the eye, such as: dust, cement chips, metal slivers, and wood chips. These materials are often ejected by tools, windblown, or fall from above a worker.

Examples of potential eye or face injuries include: Dust, dirt, metal or wood chips entering the eye from activities such as chipping, grinding, sawing, hammering, the use of power tools or even strong wind forces. Chemical splashes from corrosive substances, hot liquids, solvents or other hazardous solutions.

Workplace eye protection is needed when the following potential eye hazards are present: Projectiles (dust, concrete, metal, wood and other particles). Chemicals (splashes and fumes). Radiation (especially visible light, ultraviolet radiation, heat or infrared radiation, and lasers).

The 7 Most Common Types of Eye Injury Corneal abrasions, or scratched eye. Chemical burns and other caustic substances in the eye. Foreign object penetration, such as small metal or wood fragments. Black eyes and orbital blowout fractures. Photokeratitis, also known as eye sunburn or snow blindness.

What are the most common causes of eye injury? Eye Swelling. Eye swelling is usually a result of something hitting the area around the eye with extreme force, which results in a black eye. ... Blunt Trauma. ... Chemical Burns. ... Penetrating or Foreign Objects in the Eye. ... Eye Scratches (Corneal Abrasions) ... Bleeding.

Common types of eye injury scratches and abrasions – such as from fingernails or tree branches. foreign bodies – such as small pieces of grit, wood or metal getting in the eye. penetrating or cutting injuries – such as cuts from glass or projectiles flung from tools, especially when hammering or using power tools.

About 300,000 Americans visit the emergency room each year due to workplace eye injury. Out of all eye injuries sustained on the job, 40 percent happen in the fields of manufacturing, construction and mining, ing to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

More than 2,000 people injure their eyes at work each day. About 1 in 10 injuries require one or more missed workdays to recover from. Of the total amount of work-related injuries, 10-20 % will cause temporary or permanent vision loss.

Feel for abnormalities in your eyeball and the bones and muscles surrounding your eye. Look for foreign objects in the eye. Test your vision, dilate your pupils and use special equipment to look inside your eye during an eye exam. Depending on the type of injury, your provider may also order imaging studies.

40% of on-the-job eye injuries happen in the manufacturing, construction, and mining industries.

Contact with objects or equipment led to the majority (11,980 cases) of eye injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in 2020. Of these cases, 59.6 percent resulted from the worker rubbing or being abraded by foreign matter in the eye.

What Causes Eye Injuries? Flying particles. Almost 70% of eye injuries result from flying or falling objects or sparks striking the eye. Injured workers estimated that nearly three-fifths of the objects were smaller than a pin head.

Striking or scraping: The majority of eye injuries result from small particles or objects striking or scraping the eye, such as: dust, cement chips, metal slivers, and wood chips. These materials are often ejected by tools, windblown, or fall from above a worker.

Examples of potential eye or face injuries include: Dust, dirt, metal or wood chips entering the eye from activities such as chipping, grinding, sawing, hammering, the use of power tools or even strong wind forces. Chemical splashes from corrosive substances, hot liquids, solvents or other hazardous solutions.

Workplace eye protection is needed when the following potential eye hazards are present: Projectiles (dust, concrete, metal, wood and other particles). Chemicals (splashes and fumes). Radiation (especially visible light, ultraviolet radiation, heat or infrared radiation, and lasers).

The 7 Most Common Types of Eye Injury Corneal abrasions, or scratched eye. Chemical burns and other caustic substances in the eye. Foreign object penetration, such as small metal or wood fragments. Black eyes and orbital blowout fractures. Photokeratitis, also known as eye sunburn or snow blindness.

What are the most common causes of eye injury? Eye Swelling. Eye swelling is usually a result of something hitting the area around the eye with extreme force, which results in a black eye. ... Blunt Trauma. ... Chemical Burns. ... Penetrating or Foreign Objects in the Eye. ... Eye Scratches (Corneal Abrasions) ... Bleeding.

Common types of eye injury scratches and abrasions – such as from fingernails or tree branches. foreign bodies – such as small pieces of grit, wood or metal getting in the eye. penetrating or cutting injuries – such as cuts from glass or projectiles flung from tools, especially when hammering or using power tools.