Fishing surpasses basketball as No. 1 for eye injuries

Hamilton Reef · Post by **Hamilton Reef** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:35 am

Fishing surpasses basketball as No. 1 for eye injuries

Since 1982, emergency rooms and clinics across the nation have reported all eye injuries to a U.S. Eye Injury Registry at the Birmingham-based Helen Keller Foundation. Two years ago, eye injuries from fishing surpassed eye injuries from basketball as the No. 1 sports-related eye injury, the doctors say.

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