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* More than 600,000 eye injuries related to sports and recreation occur each year1
* 42,000 of these injuries are of a severity that requires Emergency Room attention2
* It is estimated that approximately 13,500 legally blinding sports eye injuries occur each year
* One-in-eighteen college athletes will sustain an eye injury each season. The odds increase to one-in-ten for basketball players7
* More than 90% of all eye injuries can be prevented with the use of appropriate protective eyewear3
* According to the 2002 National Health Interview Survey, 84.6% of children do not utilize protective eyewear in situations that represent a risk of eye injury
* Eye injury is the leading cause of visual impairment in one eye
* Sports participants using “street wear” (corrective eyewear or sunwear that does not conform to ASTM certified protective standards) are at a far more severe risk of eye injury than participants using no eye protection at all4
* The one-eyed athlete is 150 times more likely to go completely blind than an athlete with two fully functioning eyes.
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