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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 914
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 23 YOF HAD CANDLE AND HOLDER FALL, PT WAS STRUCK IN L CHEEK LAC TO L CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2006 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Containers |
| C/O CUT TO L FOREHEAD, HIT BY CANDLE, GETTING THE CANDLE OUT OF A BOX IN CLOSET, CANDLE FELL ONTO PT, DX; FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2006 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| HIT WITH CANDLEHOLDER YESTERDAY CONTUSION FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2006 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| BURNED FACE WITH CANDLEWAX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2006 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF THE BY BEING STRUCK BY A FALLING CANDLE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2006 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Gas ranges or ovens |
| PT LIT A CANDLE IN RV WHICH IGNITED GAS WHICH LEAKED FROM STOVE. +FD. DX: SUPERFICIAL FACIAL BURNS <2% TBSA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2006 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Cosmetics |
| CAUGHT SELF ON FIRE WHILE REMOVING NAILPOLISH NEAR CANDLE, BURN TO FACE,HANDS,NO FD CALLED, DX 1ST,2ND DEGREE BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2006 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Medical equipment, general |
| BLEW OUT CANDLE WITH OXYGEN ON, BRIEF FLASH BURN, UNK IF FD ON SCENE DX 2ND DEGREE BURN BILAT NOSTRILS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PLAYING C CANDLE, FELL HITTING CHIN ON CANDLEHOLDER " LAC" ZS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2006 | Age: 6 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| CERAMIC CANDLEHOLDER FELL, HIT PTS FOREHEAD, CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2006 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Televisions |
| LAC FOREHEAD; CANDLE STICK FELL FROM TV STRIKING PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2006 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| CHILD HIT CANDLE WITH A STICK AND GOT HOT CANDLE WAX ON FACE. D: 1ST/2N D DEGREE BURNS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/03/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| 3 YO BURN TO FACVE FROM HOT CANDLE WAX BURN FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| FELL FORWARD ON CANDLE HOLDER DX: LAC FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PATIENT WAS AT HOME, CUT FOREHEAD RUNNING INTO A CANDLE. DX-LACERATION FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| CUT FOREHEAD, CANDLE FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2006 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| ON OXYGEN GETTING UP AT NIGHT AND LIT OIL CANDLE AND OXYGEN CAUGHT FIRE BURNING FACE,NO FIRE DEPT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/21/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| BURNED WITH HOT WAX DX: 2ND DEGREE THERMAL BURNS TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2006 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT WAS LIGHTING A CANDLE AT CHURCH AND WAS HOLDING A PUPPET AND THE PUP PET CAUGHT FIRE BURNING CHILDS FACE.DX FACE BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2006 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| CUT CHIN ON CANDLE HOLDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2006 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT DX B URN TO FACE - FROM CANDLE WAX. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/25/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| FOREHEAD LAC-HIT A CANDLEHOLDER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| C/O PT MOM STATES CANDLE FELL AND HIT FOREHEAD DX FOREHEAD LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2006 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Nonelectric blankets |
| 38 YO MALE WAS UNDER BOARDWALK WITH CANDLE AND BLANKET CAUGHT ON FIRE - THIRD DEGREE BURN HAND AND FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2006 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| FACIAL CONTUSION.PT HAD A CANDLE FALL ON FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2006 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT BURNED FACE WHILE TRYING TO LIGHT A CANDLE DX: SECOND DEGREE BURN TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT IS BEING SEEN FOR HAVING CANDLE WAX IN NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/14/2006 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| LACERATION EYEBROW - 7 YOM STRUCK BY FALLING GLASS CANDLE SUSTAINING LA CERATION TO RIGHT EYEBROW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| BLOWING A CANDLE OUT -SPLASHED BACK INTO FACE BURN TO NOSE BURN LEFT CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| EYE LACERATION, CANDLE THROWN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2006 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| DX: HARDENED CANDLE WAX ON EYELASHES--REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2006 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| EYEBROW LACERATION, HIT WITH CANDLE HOLDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2006 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| ~A CANDLE IN A GLASS JAR FELL AND HIT PT ON HEAD. D: LACERATION FOREHEAD. D: LACERATION FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| A *** FELL ON SHELF HIT HEADFOREHEAD CONTUSION FOREHEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2006 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Candles, candlesticks and other candle holders |
| PT HAD HOT CANDLE WAX SPLASHED ONTO FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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