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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 842
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/21/2009 | Age: 16 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 |
| RT EYE PAIN AFTER BLOWING OUT CANDLE; FLAME JUMPED INTO EYE; REDNESS,CH GS IN VISION, IRRITATION. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2009 | Age: 23 years | 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 |
| CORN ABR. PT DROPPED A GLASS CANDLESTICK AND A PIECE OF GLASS WENT INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2008 | Age: 20 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 |
| GOT A CANDLE WHICH HAD BURNED AND HAD LIQUID WAX THROWN AT HER DX FOREIGN BODY R/L EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2007 | Age: 23 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 |
| PT DROPPED A GLASS CANDLE STICK HOLDER AND IT SHATTERED GOT A PIECE IN RIGHT EYE FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| 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 |
| Date: 03/24/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT C/O CHEMICAL IN EYES. PT SPLASHED HOT WAX IN EYES. DX ACUTE EYE PAIN CONJUNCTIVITIS CHEM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2005 | Age: 17 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 |
| TWIRLING CANDLESTICK AT HOME, GOT DIRT IN EYE. DX: FB EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2004 | Age: 18 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 |
| CONJUNCTIVAL ABRASIONS.PT HAD SOME CANDLE WAX SPLASH IN EYES. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| 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 |
| CANDLE FLAME SHOT INTO PT'S EYE. DX: CONJUNTIVITIS L EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2003 | Age: 23 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 |
| 23 YOF BLEW OUT CANDLE WAX BURNED EYE BURN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2001 | Age: 17 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: 02/22/2001 | Age: 19 years | 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 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2001 | Age: 24 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, Tables |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2000 | Age: 17 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2000 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/1999 | Age: 23 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 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/1998 | Age: 20 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 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/1997 | Age: 16 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 |
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