AbstractBackground: Ocular injuries attain great socioeconomic importance in Ophthalmology due to industrialization in developing country like India. So, this study was planned to evaluate pattern of ocular manifestation of injuries, the modes of clinical presentation, their management and the visual outcome in Western Rajasthan. Material and Methods: This prospective study was conducted in all patients aged more than 18 years of industrial ocular injuries, who presented to Mathura Das Mathur Hospital, Jodhpur between September 2013 to September 2015. Detailed clinical history including type
of industry, the nature of work, regarding the causation, the hours of work daily, time of occurrence, activity at the time of injury, nature/chemical composition of foreign body or chemical, time lapsed after injury etc. Detailed clinical examination was done. Results: A total of 52 patients of industrial ocular injuries were enrolled in study. Mean age of the patients was 31.25 years. All patients were males. 78.85% of the patients did not use any kind of ocular protection during work. Maximum number of patients
with ocular injury came from steel industry (32.69%), followed by handicraft industry (30.76%), and stone mining (21.15%). 75% of all patients had significantly corneal foreign body injury and 15.38% had chemical injury. Conclusion: In Western Rajasthan, industrial ocular injuries were predominantly found in males. Most of the patients worked at steel industries and most of injury occurred to welders. Corneal foreign body was most common mechanical type of injury in industry confined to mostly anterior
segment of eye.
Keywords: Industry; Ocular; Cornea; Vision.
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