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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 334
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/02/2010 | Age: 3 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 |
| 3YOM WITIH BURNS TO EYES, GOT CANDLE WAX IN EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2010 | 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: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Desks, chests, bureaus or buffets |
| 2 YO M PULLED CANDLE OFF DRESSER CAUSING THE OIL DRIP IN EYE CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2010 | Age: 48 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 |
| 48YOF, C/O EYE FB SENSATION AFTER BREAKING A GLASS CANDLE HOLDER >>R/O EYE RETAINED FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2010 | Age: 44 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 |
| 44YOF BROKE A GLASS CANDLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THINKS A PIECE OF GLASS I S IN LEFT EYE WITH PAIN. DX: FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2010 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 13YOM GOT FB IN EYE WHILE TRYING TO MOVE CANDLE, WAX SPILLED INTO RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2010 | Age: 22 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 |
| 22MOM WITH CANDLE WAX IN EYES, PARENTS WERE BLOWING OUT CANDLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2010 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 3 YOF-PARENT SAY CHILD PULLED A WAX WARMER OVER & SPLASHED HOT WAX IN F ACE & EYES DX FB IN EYES * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2010 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 44YO HISP FEMALE POKED IN L EYE WITH CANDLE HOLDER AT A STORE DX ABRASION L SCLERA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2010 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 4YOM, BLOWING OUT A CANDLE&ACC SPLASHED INTO EYE WITH WAX >>EYE INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2010 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| 6 YOF BLOWING OUT CANDLES ON CAKE LAST NIGHT AND FELT PAIN IN LEFT EYE. DX: EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2010 | Age: 2 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: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 2YO MALE WITH CONJUNCTIVITIES, GOT CANDLE OIL INTO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2010 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 11 MOM GOT HOT WAX SPILLED ONTO FACE AND IN EYES, FOREIGN BODY EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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