Scenario No. SOT % SOT No. blind eyes % blind eyes** Source No. SOT. % SOT No. blind eyes % blind eyes** Injury type No. SOT. % SOT No. blind eyes % blind eyes**
Home 52 43 35 67 Hammering on metal 47 39 24 51 IOFB*** 48 40 21 44
Labor facilities 34 28 14 41 Sharp objects 38 32 16 42 Penetrating 42 35 13 31
Traffic accident 14 12 3 21 Blunt objects 26 22 13 50 Rupture 16 13 14 88
Theft / robbery 8 7 2 25 Falls 4 3 2 50 Contusion 10 8 7 70
Sport / recreational 6 5 3 50 Explosions 2 2 2 100 Perforating 4 3 4 100
School 2 2 1 50 Projectiles 2 2 2 100          
Other 4 3 1 25 Other 1 1 - -          
Total 120 100 59   Total 120 100 59   Total 120 100 59  
*Defined as visual acuity worse than 20/200 **Eye blind percentage is calculated toward each kind of ocular trauma scenario, source and injury type ***Intra Ocular Foreign Body
Table 1: Frequency of severe ocular trauma (SOT) and legal blindness* rate per scenario, source and type of injury in the Cuban Ocular Trauma Registry data base.