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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 62
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 06/25/2009 | Age: 33 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: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| REPORTS WAS POURING ?CITRONELLO OIL IN TORCH WHEN CANDLE EXPOLODED&GOT SOMETHING IN THE EYE>>FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2009 | Age: 27 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: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT BLEW OUT CANDLE AND FELT SOMETHING GO INTO EYE(POSSIBLY WAX), CONTUS ION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2009 | Age: 27 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 WAS BLOWING OUT A CANDLE AND THE WAX BLEW INTO PT'S EYE. DX FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2009 | Age: 46 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, Other glass bottles or jars |
| 46 YOF CANDLE IN GLASS JAR EXPOLDED AND GLASS GOT IN HER EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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