In a traumatic eye injury why is the un-injured eye covered?

Because your eyes tend to move in conjunction with each other. So if you cover both, the injured eye will be less likely to move on it's own.

to force the hurt eye to focus on things

In order to make the injured eye work harder to build up the eye muscles.
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