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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 291
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/06/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches |
| PT LIT A MATCH, SPARK FLEW INTO PT'S L EYE CAUSING BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Matches |
| 4 DAYS AGO PT WAS LIGHTING MATCHES AND THINKS THAT A PIECE OF ONE MAY H AVE FALLEN INTO EYE. C/O EYE PAIN. D: TRAUMATIC IRITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches |
| PT LIGHTING MATCH AND SPARK FLEW UP AND LANDED N R LOWER LID AND IN EYE . DX. R CORNEAL ULCER, CORNEAL INJ FROM EMBER OF MATCH (BURN). |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Matches |
| 19 YO HAD PIECE OF MATCH FLY INTO EYE CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2007 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Matches, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 27 YO MALE HAD MATCHHEAD FLY INTO EYE WHILE LIGHTING CIGARETTE FIRST DEGREE BURN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2007 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Matches |
| ACC STRUCK ONTO EYE C A MATCH " EYE PAIN" |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/24/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Matches |
| FEELS LIKE SOMETHING IS IN EYE SINCE LIGHTING A MATCH. DX. L EYE FOREIG N BODY SENSATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2007 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Matches |
| PT WAS HIT IN EYE W/HOT MATCH. DX: CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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