Accidents - Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders - 0-5 years old - Years 1997-2010 - Eyeball

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,549
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1997:	66
Year 1998:	78
Year 1999:	111
Year 2000:	92
Year 2001:	94
Year 2002:	11
Year 2003:	321
Year 2004:	80
Year 2005:	43
Year 2006:	88
Year 2007:	74
Year 2008:	181
Year 2009:	134
Year 2010:	170

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/02/2010	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
3YOM WITIH BURNS TO EYES, GOT CANDLE WAX IN EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2010	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Desks, chests, bureaus or buffets
2 YO M PULLED CANDLE OFF DRESSER CAUSING THE OIL DRIP IN EYE CONTACT DERMATITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2010	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
22MOM WITH CANDLE WAX IN EYES, PARENTS WERE BLOWING OUT CANDLES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/04/2010	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
3 YOF-PARENT SAY CHILD PULLED A WAX WARMER OVER & SPLASHED HOT WAX IN F ACE & EYES DX FB IN EYES *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2010	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
4YOM, BLOWING OUT A CANDLE&ACC SPLASHED INTO EYE WITH WAX >>EYE INJ
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/01/2010	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
2YO MALE WITH CONJUNCTIVITIES, GOT CANDLE OIL INTO EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2010	Age: 11 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
11 MOM GOT HOT WAX SPILLED ONTO FACE AND IN EYES, FOREIGN BODY EYES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2009	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
C/O EYE PAIN THAT BEGAN AFTER BLOWING OUT A CANDLE YESTERDAY, ?SOOT IN EYE>>CORNEAL ABR/CONJ
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT SUSTAINED EYE IRRITATION WHEN A SCENTED CANDLE OIL SPLASHED INTO CHILD'S EYE*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2009	Age: 12 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
CANDLE WAX DRIPPED IN LEFT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2009	Age: 12 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
CANDLE WAX DRIPPED IN L EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/09/2009	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
7 YEAR OLD STABBED A THIS 4 YO F PT WITH GLASS CANDLE HOLDERS DX: LAC T O CORNEAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Bags
PT HAD HAND IN BAG WITH SCENTED CANDLE AND RUBBED EYE, POSS FB TO EYE
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 11/14/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
2 Y/O C/O EYE PAIN, GOT SCENTED CANDLE OIL IN EEYE, SPILLED CANDLE OIL ON FA CE. DX-FORBIGN BODY (OIL) IN EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/03/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT HAD GOTTON A HOLD OF GLASS CANDLE HOLDER WHICH SHATTERED DX: CORNEAL AB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT PULLED DOWN A LIT CANDLE AND WAX SPLASHED IN EYES CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/02/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
CHILD TRIED TO BLOW OUT CANDLE IN AUNT'S BATHROOM AND HAD HOT WAX SPLAS H IN EYE. D: CORNEAL ABRASION, 1ST DEG BURN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Ceilings and walls
LAC EYE- SCONCE FELL FROM WALL
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 08/11/2007	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT PULLED CANDLE ONTO FACE GOT DRY WAX IN EYES DX// BILAT EYE FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/12/2007	Age: 10 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PEICE OF A BROKEN GLASS CANDLE HOLDER BROKE AND GOT INTO EYE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2006	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
RAN INTO INSENCE CANDLE. DX CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2006	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT GOT HOT WAX IN HER EYE, MOM WAS LIGHTING A CANDLE & HOT WAX GOT FLICKED INTO PT'S EYE. DX; CONJUNCTIVITIS, CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/08/2006	Age: 13 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT GOT HOT CANDLE WAX IN EYE 2 HOURS AGO. D: FOREIGN BODY - REMOVED L EFT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/09/2006	Age: 17 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PATIENTS MOTHER STATES HIT IN EYE WITH GLASS CANDLE HOLDER. DX; NO IN JURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2005	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT DUMPED HOT CANDLE WAX ON FACE. GOT IN EYE. DX: FOREIGN BODY EYE. NO INJURY TO FACE OR EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/29/2005	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
SPILLED CANDLE WAX DX. SCLERAL BURN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/20/2005	Age: 4 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT W/ PICE OF WAX FROM CANDLE IN RT EYE DX FORIEGN BODY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/2005	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Sinks
EYE FB-FROM BROKEN GLASS CANDLE HOLDER IN SINK-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/29/2004	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
COUGH, EYE RED/SWOLLEN, CANDLES BURNING IN HOME DX: ALLERGIC RXN TO CANDLES
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2004	Age: 5 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Tables
CANDLE FELL OFF TABLE INTO PT FACE DX R CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/06/2004	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
SPILLED CANDLE WAX AND GOT IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
FB R EYE;EYE INJ/2YOM KNOCKED OVER CANDLE AT HOME AND GOT HOT WAX IN R EYE. RAN COLD WATER IN EYE. REMOVED WAX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/31/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT GOT CANDLE WAX IN EYE BLOWING THE CANDLE OUT. DX FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2003	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT BLOWING OUT CANDLE, WAX SPLASHED IN EYE; TB EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2003	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT WAS SHAKING A CITRINELLA CANDLE AND HOT WAX FLEW IN HER RT EYE, WITH DRAINAGE, C/O PAIN/BURNING ; RT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2003	Age: 12 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PT GOT CANDLE WAX IN EYE; FB REMOVAL EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/17/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
2 YO M PULLED HOT CANDLE OVER ON TO EYE BURN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2003	Age: 11 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
A GLASS CANDLE BROKE, GLASS IN LT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2003	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PATIENT BLEW OUT CANDLE AT HOME, SOOT/SMOKE WENT INTO EYE; CORNEAL ABRA SION, FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/31/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
PLAYING AROUND WITH CANDLE GOT HOT WAX IN EYE DX: EYE FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/20/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
GOT DEBRIS IN EYE FROM CANDLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2001	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2001	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2000	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/01/2000	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/15/2000	Age: 17 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/1999	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/1999	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/14/1999	Age: 13 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/20/1998	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Scald
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/17/1998	Age: 9 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/1998	Age: 21 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/1997	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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