"Prevent Blindness, the nation's oldest eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has declared March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 2000 U.S. workers sustain a job-related eye injury that requires medical treatment a day.
About one third of the injuries are treated in hospital emergency departments, and more than 100 of these injuries result in one or more days away from work..."