It could be a fracture of the globe of the eye as well.
This once again proves that journalism is the easiest degree one who is none too bright can get in college.
The "KOMO staff" is listed as the author. I assume they all went to college.
I hope they're all proud. lol.
[as an aside, 43north, I believe that since the globe refers to the soft tissue, it would be proper to call it a rupture. But since we really don't know what the KOMO staff was trying to say, (and I doubt they know themselves) who knows?]