TABLE 2. USEIR Sports and Recreation Injuries December 1988 to September 1999


  Total Open globe Blind eyes Shattered eyewear lens Sex (Percent male) Age (median)
Fishing 113 50 34 0/1 82.3% 27
Hunting/Shooting 59 28 29 2/4 98.3% 32
Recreation 55 29 15 1/1 89.1% 17
Baseball 104 11 15 5/8 86.5% 14
Softball 65 3 8 3/12 63.1% 29
Basketball 66 11 12 1/1 95.5% 24
Racket Sports 55 1 8 0/6 83.3% 25
Hockey 13 2 0 0/0 100% 30
Paintball 12 1 1 0/3 100% 17
Golf 29 12 12 4/6 72.4% 40
Soccer 24 0 1 0/1 66.7% 17
Ball Sports, Other 19 2 0 0/1 68.4% 12
Football 13 0 0 0/1 100% 15
Water sports 15 3 5 0/0 66.7% 21
Sports, Other 22 4 1 0/0 80.1% 22
Motor Sports 11 5 5 0/0 81.9% 22
Fireworks 21 3 4 0/1 80.1% 20.5
Bungee Cord 6 2 1 0/0 66.7% 21
Total 702 167 151 16/46 83.3% Range 22.5–83

Blind Eyes include: Final best-corrected visions: no light perception, hand motions, finger counting, less than 20/200
Sex: In three cases the sex was not stated. Calculations based on 699 cases in which sex was specified
Age: Injuries affected all age groups, with a range of 2 to 85 years. The age median cited is only to point to an age trend by sports group.
Motor Sports include: 3 wheeler (1), 4 wheeler (2), auto racing (7), go cart (1)
Hunting/Shooting include: air rifle (4), BB gun (14), hunting (31), shooting (trap, skeet) (10)
Racket Sports include: badminton (3), handball (2), racquetball (36), tennis (14)
Ball Sports, other include: play with ball (5), dodgeball (1), kickball (1), lacrosse (1), mudball (1), stickball (1), volleyball (6), whiffle ball (3)
Water Sports include: beach (1), boating (5), sailboat (1), surfing (3), swimming (1), water skiing (2)
Recreation includes: bicycle (1), camping (6), carnival (1), church function (1), darts (2), dirt bike (1), dog bite (1), fight (2), glass car window (1), hiking (5), home (1), motor vehicke crash (1), park (1), play (11), poker (1), recreation (11), sledding (1), sling shot (1), snowmobile (1), vacation house (1), water baloon (2), water hose (1), whirly gig toy (1)
Golf includes: golf (28), putt-putt golf (1)
Sports, other include: bow and arrow (1), boxing (4), frisbee (2), ice skating (1), karate (2), rodeo (3), roller skating (1), running (1), ice skating (1), skiing (3), wrestling (3)