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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 229
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 07/15/2006 | Age: 21 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 |
| WAX FROM CANDLE SPLASHED IN EYE WHILE LYING ON FLOOR AT HOME. *DX: SUBCONJUCTIVAL ABRASION OF THE EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2006 | Age: 23 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 |
| PATIENT WAS LIGHTING A CANDLE WHEN SOMETHING POPPED IN HER EYE. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2006 | Age: 21 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 |
| R CORNEAL ABRASION; CLEANING & FLET PIECE OF GLASS FROM CANDLE HIT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2006 | Age: 23 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 |
| PT GOT CANDLE WAX IN RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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