An eye injury can occur almost anywhere and can include everything from blunt eye trauma to foreign body injuries. It can occur for myriad reasons, such as while at work, play, or home, by ...

And yet, year after year, we hear the same statistics. The personal and economic toll of eye injuries at work is alarming. According the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 20,000 workplace eye ...

Eye injuries in the workplace cost more than $924 million annually in workers'' compensation, and nearly $4 billion in wage and productivity losses, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With ...

Preventing eye injuries using proper safety measures is far less costly than dealing with the consequences of an eye injury. Those performing construction or mechanical work tasks are at an increased ...

Tips: Workplace Eye Safety. Mar 09, 2008; According to Prevent Blindness America, 90 percent of all eye injuries are preventable simply by wearing the proper eye protection.

According to The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2000 workplace eye injuries occur every day, with 100 of them resulting in one or more days of lost work.

Too many workers who wear eye protection still suffer injuries. Here's help on how to determine when more protection is needed. Most safety professionals agree that workplace eye injuries are ...

"Eye injuries are completely avoidable," Mazzoli said. Even outside the combat arena, some 90 percent of eye injuries that happen at home could be prevented by wearing eye protection, he said.

The average Soldier sustaining an eye injury is an E3-E5, 20- to 24-year-old male who is struck by an object while performing combat soldiering; ... Preventing eye injuries at work.

But eye injuries in the home occur every day of the year, and most can be avoided, experts say. ... (44%) happen in the home, and 15% of injuries occur in the workplace.

There are 2.5 million eye injuries in the U.S. every year, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and Middle Tennessee doctors say that many happen right in our own homes.