%0 Journal Article %9 journal article %J Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine %@ 1232-1966 %V 12 %N 1 %D 2005 %F Mackiewicz2005 %T Work-related, penetrating eye injuries in rural environments. %X PURPOSE To establish the aetiology and visual outcome after penetratingeye injures in rural environments. MATERIALS AND METHODS The records of 182 patients (184 eyes) withpenetrating eye injuries treated in the 1 st Eye Hospital, Lublin, Poland, between 1994 and 2002, werereviewed. Twenty eight of the 184 eyes (15.6 %) were work-related agriculture penetrating eye injuries.Distribution by age, sex, season variation, cause of injury, place of entrance wound, visual acuity andlate complications were estimated. RESULTS Of the group of 28 patients, 24 (85.7%) were male and 4(14.3%) female, with the age range between 11-76 (mean 48.2) years. Most injuries were a result of repairand maintenance work in 35.7%, wood chopping in 25 %, machine use in 17.9%, simple instruments usein 10.7%, fall from one level to another in 7.1%, and cow butting with a horn in 3.6 %. Eighteen eyes (64%) were blind with visual acuity less than 0.05 at their most recent review. CONCLUSIONS Our studyhas shown that perforating ocular injuries in rural environment are still a big therapeutic, social andeconomic problem. %A Mackiewicz, Jerzy %A Machowicz-Matejko, Eulalia %A Sałaga-Pylak, Monika %A Piecyk-Sidor, Marta %A Zagórski, Zbigniew %P 27-29 %U https://www.aaem.pl/Work-related-penetrating-eye-injuries-in-rural-environments-,72915,0,2.html