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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 540
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/29/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| COUGH, EYE RED/SWOLLEN, CANDLES BURNING IN HOME DX: ALLERGIC RXN TO CANDLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2004 | Age: 14 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 |
| FOREIGN BODY EYE - 14 YOF GOT SOMETHING IN HER LEFT EYE AFTER BLOWING O UT A CANDLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PATIENT SPLATTERED HOT CANDLE WAX INTO RIGHT EYE AT HOME, WAS PLAYING WITH A CANDLE. DX-BURN TO EYE. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 12/07/2004 | Age: 5 months | 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, Tables |
| CANDLE FELL OFF TABLE INTO PT FACE DX R CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| SPLASHED HOT WAX IN EYE [CANDLE] CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2004 | Age: 34 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 |
| BLEW OUT CANDLE, SOME WAX FLEW AT FACE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2004 | Age: 9 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: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT C/O CANDLE WAX WENT TO RT EYE AT HOME THIS PM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2004 | Age: 26 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 |
| PT. STATES GLASS CANDLEHOLDER BROKE AND SMALL PIECES FLEW TOWARD FACE. DX. ACUTE R EYE PAIN, R CORNEAL ABRA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2004 | Age: 53 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 |
| PT WAS LOOKING AT A CANDLE AT HOME WHEN SOMEONE BLEW IT OUT AND SHE GOT WAX IN LEFT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Clothing irons |
| 2DAYS AGO PT BURNED L EYE WITH HOT CANDLE WAX SCAB AROUND EYE TODAY PT BURNED FINGER WITH HOT IRON. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| 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: 04/06/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| SPILLED CANDLE WAX AND GOT IN EYE |
| 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: 01/29/2004 | Age: 48 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 |
| 48 Y/O F INJURED R EYE WHEN STRUCK WITH SPRING LOADED CANDLE HOLDER AT HOME. DX; CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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