[Causes and types of eye injuries in miners and employees of coal mines].

One hundred and ninety workers from the coal mines were examined in the years 1977-79 at various work stands and also treated as out-patients and/or hospitalized. The ocular injuries were divided into mechanical trauma and burns. In the analyzed material the percentage of minor trauma amounted 72.5 per cent, severe ocular injuries occurred in 18.5 p.c. of cases; in 4 p.c. ensued a permanent incapacity for work in a coal mine.