Fuel Oils, Not Specified

57YOM C/O PAIN RIGHT ARM, HAS FLASH BURN TO ARM FIRST DEGREE, AFTER TRYING TO LIGHT A FIRE WITH BOAT FUEL. FIRE DEPT WAS NOT CALLED.. DX: FIRST DEGREE BURN RIGHT FOREARM.

27YOM SLIPPED ON OIL AND WATER MIX. DX: HAMSTRING INJURY, LEFT.

72YOF W/HEADACHE, POSTERIOR NECK PAIN, L SIDED HIP & KNEE PAIN AFTER SHE SLIPPED & FELL ON SOME OIL TODAY. OCCURRED OUTSIDE OF STORE. DX: HIP CONTUSION;KNEE CONTUSION

15YOF PRESENTS AFTER SHE SLIPPED IN GREASE AND DID THE SPLITS ON SATURDAY NIGHT, NOW HAVING PAIN IN R. LOWER ABDOMEN--SQUEEZING--9/10 PAIN, WORSENS WITH COUGH. DX: OVARIAN CYST

70YOF WAS ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE WEARING A HELMET THAT WAS GOING ABOUT 5-10 MILES PER HOUR AROUND A CURVE WHEN THE MOTORCYCLE HIT A PATCH OF OIL, AND THEY LAID THE MOTORCYCLE ON ITS SIDE. DX: CLOSED FRACTURE OF LEFT ANKLE

71YOF PRESENTS WITH RIGHT THIGH AND LEFT KNEE PAIN AFTER WALKING IN A GAS STATION WHEN SHE SLIPPED IN SOME OIL AND FELL TO GROUND DX: HAMSTRING TEAR

71 YOM +ETOH USE SLIPPED ON SOME OIL IN HIS DRIVEWAY AND FELL HITTING HIS RIGHT KNEE. +PAIN AND SWELLING TO RIGHT KNEE. BAC NOT DONE DX RIGHT KNEE INJURY, INTOXICATION

58 YOM WAS CHANGING HIS CAR ENGINE OIL WHEN HE BENT DOWN AND HAD PAIN ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS CHEST 3 DAYS AGO. DX: CHEST PAIN

51YOF P/W MCA, PT SLIPPING ON OIL AND FELL WHILE RIDING MOTORCYCLE, HELMETED, C/O LOWER EXTREMITY PAIN, DX: FIBULA FX

50YOF PEDESTRIAN HIT BY A CAR WHILE SHE WAS PUMPING GAS AT THE GAS STATION. DX: FX LT GREAT TOE

45YOM, HELMETED MOTORCYCLIST, IN 2 SEPARATE ACCIDENTS, FIRST HIS FOOT SLID ON A PUDDLE OF OIL ON THE ROAD, RESULTING IN A CRUSHING INJURY TO FOOT, THEN KEPT DRIVING AND 20 MINUTES LATER FELT DIZZY AND FELL OF THE BIKE, DX: CRUSH INJURY OF RIGHT FOOT; MOTORCYCLE DRIVER INJURED IN COLLISION W/STATIONARY OBJECT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

49YOM ACCIDENTALLY SLIPPED ON SOME FUEL OIL CAUSING HIM TO FALL BACKWARDS NOW HAS PAIN IN BACK DX: FRACTURED LUMBAR VERTEBRA

I was in our garage/recreation room. On the table was the fire pot which we had received as a gift about a week prior to the accident. The flame was out and my boyfriend was adding fuel to the pot. The bottle exploded out of his hands and hit the wall. Suddenly I realized that I was in flames. My boyfriend and a neighbor helped get me on the ground and put out the flames. We called 911.

I had an incident on Thursday evening 9/1/2011 with the fuel gel product by " Bird Brain " . I attempted to refill my fire pot and it ignited the top of the bottle . I then tried to blow out the fire and it blew up in my face . I tried to extiquish it but it was every hard to put out . It kept reigniteing and finnally got it out , an had burns all over my face . Very painfull ..........

My wife was seriously burned on July 18th, 2011, when a citrenella fire pot exploded showering flaming gel all over her chest, neck, and arms. A woman had tried to light the firepot, didn't think it had lit, and poured more fuel into it. She could not see the flame. The gel was Birdbrain firepot fuel gel. My wife sustained second and third degree burns to her face, neck, chest, arms and hands. She spent 4 weeks in the trauma burn unit at the University of Michigan Hospital, three weeks of which she had to be completely sedated. She had extensive grafting and plastic surgery to all affected areas and has a VERY long recovery ahead of her.

My husband poured the Napa home and garden gel fuel into the table fire pots the pot already was lit. The gel shot out catching my jeans on fire and then the gel dripped on my leg causing a severe 2 nd degree burn on my right leg shin. This incident happened May 29, 2011

Gel fluid was being topped up in patio candle on patio table. Exploded in my hand causing my husband to ignite into flames, laptop into flames, glasses into flames. The whole rod iron tabletop went into flames. I proceeded to remove his t-shirt to dub out flames. And used a water hose. Thankfully permanant damage to his eyes at this point are minimal. Minimal burns to his arms and back. Horrible experience. Table, laptop and glasses and t-shirt are destroyed.

I was at my friend [REDACTED]'s house in Arizona on July 3, 2011. She had a fire pot using Napa fire gel fuel manufactured by Napa Home and Garden. The fire pot had been burning for a few hours and then once the gel was depleted and the flame had gone out, she went to refill the firepot approximately 15-20 minutes later. Not a second after she began to refill the firepot, there was a huge explosion. I just remember a huge ball of fire in my face. The next thing I remember was standing in my friend's kitchen with her and another friend holding ice packs and wet towels on my arm. I was extremely upset and in shock. Once I was a little calmer my friend explained that I caught on fire. They said that I took off running and that they had to push me to the ground and rolled me in the dirt until the fire was out. They also had to rip my shirt off as it was also in flames. My arm was severely burned, the blisters were huge and covered most of my right arm. My hair had also been burnt badly. All I could smell was burnt hair and skin. I was in excruciating pain. Once at the ER I was told that I had severe 2nd degree burns. My throat had also been burnt and I had several blisters in the back of my throat. It has now been one month and the burns are almost healed, but there are still some scabs and deep scarring.

On February 16, 2011, my husband and I were sitting on our patio. We poured Napa fuel gel into our fire pot and lit it. We sat the bottle of gel about a foot away from the pot. (We don't remember if the top was on or off the bottle.) All of the sudden, the bottle exploded. The gel that passed over the open flame of the pot ignited and landed on me. (It sounded like a gun shot.) The flash sunburned my face, synged my eyelashes, and burned my left ear. It caught my left arm, back, hair and shirt on fire. My husband tackled me with a blanket to extinguish the flames. I threw up, passed out and went into shock. We went to the emergency room, and the next day to a burn center at a hosptial. That day I went into surgery where they scrapped my skin. I had first and second degree burns and was out of work from February 17th-March 4th. My concern is that I was NOT pouring the gel into an open flame, or an empty, hot resevior when it combusted, like MANY stories I have heard. I fear more people/pets/homes will be injured/ruined if the fire pots and fuel gel remain on the shelves of stores.

I was sitting at a patio table around 9pm when an emptied fire pot was about to be refilled with the lighter gel (Patio glo) Before the gel even came out of the bottle, the gel exploded into a ball of fire and blew me backwards where I lay on fire. I ended up with 2nd degree burns on my face, arms, chest, stomach and back.