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02/27/2004 Entry: "The Eyes of March - 02/20/2004"

In observance of March as Workplace Eye Safety Month, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and opthalmologists across the nation want to alert Americans to the possibility of eye injuries in the workplace.

According to Prevent Blindness America, each working day in the United States, more than 2,000 employees sustain job-related eye injuries, making workplace injury a leading cause of ocular trauma, visual loss and blindness. Of these, 10 percent to 20 percent will be disabling because of temporary or permanent vision loss.

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