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OCULAR TRAUMA FROM LEAD‐ACID VEHICLE BATTERY EXPLOSIONS
Author(s) -
SIEBERT STEPHEN
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of opthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 0310-1177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1982.tb01033.x
Subject(s) - lead–acid battery , battery (electricity) , ignition system , lead (geology) , medicine , forensic engineering , medical emergency , engineering , automotive engineering , aerospace engineering , geology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , geomorphology
Ocular trauma caused by lead‐acid car battery explosions has been seen in a number of cases presenting to the major teaching hospitals in Adelaide. Injuries range from superficial acid burns to penetrating eye injury and retinal haemorrhage. The cause of the explosions has been ignition of the hydrogen‐oxygen gas mixture generated by lead‐acid batteries. The risk of explosion is known to battery manufacturing and distributing bodies and methods of avoiding explosions are well known to the industry. It is suggested that efforts should be made to design safe car batteries, and that there is an urgent need to educate the public to the risks involved with the present batteries.