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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 496
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/14/2005 | Age: 55 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 |
| SOMETHING POPPED INTO PT'S EYE WHILE BLOWING OUT A CANDLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2005 | Age: 15 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 |
| BLEW OUT A CANDLE AND GOT ASH FROM CANDLE INTO EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2005 | Age: 2 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 |
| PT DUMPED HOT CANDLE WAX ON FACE. GOT IN EYE. DX: FOREIGN BODY EYE. NO INJURY TO FACE OR EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| SPILLED CANDLE WAX DX. SCLERAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2005 | Age: 4 months | 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 |
| PT W/ PICE OF WAX FROM CANDLE IN RT EYE DX FORIEGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2005 | Age: 33 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 HIT RT EYE ON CANDLE STICK AT HOME DX:CORNEAL AB RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2005 | Age: 21 months | 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, Sinks |
| EYE FB-FROM BROKEN GLASS CANDLE HOLDER IN SINK-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2005 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| STRUCK IN THE EYE W/ AN INCENSE HOLDER TRAUMATIC IRITIS RIGHT 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: 01/29/2005 | Age: 28 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 LIGHTING CANDLES AND A PIECE OF CANDLE CAME UP AND HIT IN EYE C/O PA IN BLURRED VISION AND REDNESS LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| 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: 01/08/2005 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT TRIPPED&FELL ON A GLASS CANDLE THAT BROKE INJURING EYE, SUSTAINED " RUPTURE LT GLOBE"+"FACIAL LACERATION" |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/03/2005 | 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: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 12 YOM WAS BLOWING OUT A CANDLE & WAX GOT ON EYELID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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