Accidents - Christmas tree lights - Years 1997-2010 - Eyeball

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,314
See also: Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1998:	132
Year 1999:	104
Year 2000:	42
Year 2001:	33
Year 2002:	186
Year 2003:	170
Year 2004:	304
Year 2005:	190
Year 2006:	546
Year 2007:	249
Year 2008:	72
Year 2009:	139
Year 2010:	140

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	179
6-15 years old:	34
16-25 years old:	460
26-50 years old:	1,286
50+ years old:	354

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/13/2010	Age: 17 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: Christmas tree lights
17 YOM FOREIGN BODY IN LT. EYEBALL- REPORTS SOMETHING GETTING STUCK IN HIS EYE WHILE HE WAS HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS OUTSIDE AT HOME.*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/2010	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: Christmas tree lights
23 YOM, HIT SELF IN EYE WITH CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, CONTUSION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2009	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
43 Y/O/M POKED EYE WITH BRANCH WHILE PUTTING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON TREE DX: R EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2009	Age: 25 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: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS POKED IN EYE BY TREE WHJILE PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX: CORNEAL AB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/06/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS PUTTING UP XMAS LIGHTS AND GOT SOMETHING IN EYE DX: FB RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2008	Age: 3 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: Christmas tree lights
CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BROKE AND GOT IN EYE;DX FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2008	Age: 4 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: Christmas tree lights, Christmas decorations
PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN ACCIDENTALLY POKED HIMSELF IN EYE WITH M INI CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT BULB; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/22/2007	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PLAYING WITH CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS AND ONE OF THEM BORKE WENT INTO E YE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2007	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
SOMETHING GOT INTO EYE WHILE PUTTING XMAS LIGHTS UP, DX; EYE FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 40 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: Christmas tree lights, Plants, trees and shrubs
STUCK BY TREE BRANCH WHILE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS DX: CORNEAL AB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2007	Age: 38 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: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
HAD SOMETHING GO INTO RIGHT EYE WHILE TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. DX: FOREIGN BODY RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/03/2007	Age: 13 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: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
A PART OF A TREE LIGHT GOT INTO EYE - REMOVED FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/25/2006	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT POKED HIMSELF IN THE LEFT EYE AS HE WAS HANGING CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT S ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2006	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS ON THE TREE AND POKED SELF IN THE L EFT EYE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2006	Age: 51 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT PUTTING HUP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS AND POKED IN THE LEFT EYE WITH TH E TREE BRANCH ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/03/2006	Age: 20 months	Sex: Female	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: Christmas tree lights
DYE-FILLED CHRISTMAS TRE LIGHTBULB BROKE ON HER HAND, SHE THEN RUBBED HER EYES AND SCREAMED DX:CONJUNCTIVITIS, EYE IRRITANT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2006	Age: 48 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: Christmas tree lights
GLASS FROM A CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT BROKE AND GOT INTO EYE CORNEAL ABRASIO N
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/23/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
L CORNEAL ABRASION;PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & BRANCH GOT IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2006	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Christmas tree lights
POKED IN EYE WITH XMASLITE CORNEAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2006	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS WHEN ONE BROKE GOT A PIECE IN RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/2006	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Christmas tree lights
TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS, BULB WITH LIQUID CHEMICAL INSIDE BRO KE, GOT FLUID IN EYE. DX: CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/18/2005	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
FB LEFT EYE.PT WAS PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS AND SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2005	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT DECORATING THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND POKED SELF IN THE EYE WITH A CHRIS TMAS LIGHTBULB ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2005	Age: 19 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: Christmas tree lights
F B TO EYE HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHT ON TREE [PALM] F B EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2005	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHS AND STRUCK HERSELF IN THE RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS POKED IN EYE W/XMAS TREE BRANCH WHILE PUTTING UP LIGHTS. DX: CORNEAL ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2005	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
CORNEAL ABRASION - 45 YOF C/O RIGHT EYE PAIN AFTER BEING STRUCK IN THE EYE WITH A CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT PLUG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/14/2005	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS TAKING CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHT OFF, LOST BALANCE, FELL STRUCK LT EY E, SUSTAINED" SUBCONJUNICTIVAL HEMATOMA''
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2004	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
POKED SELF IN EYE WITH CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS DX: L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2004	Age: 55 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS ADJUSTING A BUBBLE LIGHT ON A CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN IT EXPLODED AN D SOME CHEMICAL WENT INTO EYE CHEMICAL BURN TO EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2004	Age: 26 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: Christmas tree lights
26 YOM WAS PUTTING IN A CHRISTMAS LIGHT LAST NIGHT, GLASS POPPED AND MA Y HAVE GOTTEN INTO RIGHT EYE. HAS CONJUNCTIVITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2004	Age: 40 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: Christmas tree lights
BRANCH OF XMAS TREE HIT PT WHILE PUTTING ON LIGHTS.DX: L TRAUMATIC COR NEAL ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/2004	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
CHRISTMAS LIGHT BROKE AND THINKS PIECE WENT INTO EYE. DX. ACUTE CORNEAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2004	Age: 27 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: Christmas tree lights
TAKING X-MAS LIGHTS & FELT SOMETHING GO IN EYE CONJUNCTIVITIS INFECTIONS, BLEPHARITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/24/2003	Age: 72 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT CHANGING A LIGHT ON HER CHRSITMAS TREE WHEN SHE WAS POKED IN THE LFT EYE BY A TREE BRANCH ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2003	Age: 57 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: Christmas tree lights
RT CORNEAL ABRASION-PT WAS PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND WAS STRUCK I N RT EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2003	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
RT EYE CONTUSION/ABRASION.PT WAS PUTTING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON A BUSH AND A BRANCH HIT PT IN EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/16/2003	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
GOT GLASS FROM BROKEN XMAS LIGHT IN EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/24/2002	Age: 68 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: Christmas tree lights
PT WAS POKED IN EYE W/BRANCH WHILE HANGING XMAS TREE LIGHTS. DX: R CONJUNCTIVAL ABR.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/30/2002	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
HANGING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN SHRUB F B UNDER CONJUNCTIVA OF EYE POSS. PINE NEEDLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2002	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
PT TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS WHEN ONE BROKE PIECE OF THE BULB WENT I NTO RIGHT EYE ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/30/2001	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/05/2001	Age: 16 years	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: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2000	Age: 11 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2000	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/15/2000	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/31/1999	Age: 36 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: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/29/1999	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/01/1999	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: Hemorrhage
Product: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/27/1998	Age: 39 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: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/1998	Age: 34 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: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/1998	Age: 20 years	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: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/28/1998	Age: 40 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: Christmas tree lights
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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