Wooden Matches

47 YOF WAS HAVING LEFT EAR IRRITATION AND USED A MATCHSTICK TO SCRATCH THE EAR, IT BROKE AND CAUSED A WOUND. DX: TRAUMATIC RUPTURE OF LEFT EAR DRUM.

13YOM C/O LIT A MATCH STICK TO LIGHT FIREPLACE AND ACCIDENTALLY INHALED SOME OF THE SMOKE FROM MATCH STICK. NO ASH, BURNS, OR AIRWAY COMPROMISE NOTED. LEFT BEFORE EVALUATION. FD UNK DX: UNKNOWN

87YOM TO ER W/ DAUGHTER FOR EPISTAXIS, PT HAD YESTERDAY & AGAIN TODAY, PT ON ***, DAUGHTER TRIED USING MATCH STICK X 1 DAY TO CAUTERIZE, UNSUCCESSFULL, DX EPISTAXIS [RESOLVED] CHRONIC AFIB, ANTICOAGULANT LONG TERM USE

20YOM HIT HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH A PUNK THAT YOU LIGHT FIREWORKS WITH RESULTING IN AN ABRASION TO HIS CORNEA. DX: ABRASION OF LEFT CORNEA

24YOM WAS IN JAIL AND SET HIS JAIL CELL ON FIRE WITH MATCHES. FIRE DEPARTMENT CAME TI SCENE. LABS COHB 7.3. DX INHALATION INJURY

2YOM STUCK A MATCH STICK UP INTO HIS RT NARE DX FOREIGN BODY IN NOSE

4YOM WHO WALKED INTO A PUNK WITH THE HOT POINT HITTING HIS LEFT EYE. DX: ABRASION OF LEFT CORNEA.

2YOF WITH LEFT EYE PAIN AND DISCHARGE AFTER BEING POKED IN THE EYE WITH A PUNK. MOTHER BELIEVES ANOTHER CHILD REACHED HIS HAND BACK WITH THE LIT PUNK AND ACCIDENTALLY HIT HER IN THE EYE. DX: ABRASION OF LEFT CORNEA.

6YOM HAS EYE PAIN AFTER HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY POKED IN THE EYE WITH A LIT PUNK FOR FIREWORKS DX: EYE BURN.

7 YOM WAS USING A *** TO LIGHT FIREWORKS (TYPE R) AND ACCID CONTACTED EYE W/LIT ENT OF ***.DX: L EYE CORNEAL ABR.

48 YO F PT WAS USING A WOODEN MATCH STICK TO REMOVE EAR WAX FROM RT EARPAINFUL DX RT EAR PAIN

6YOM WAS POKEN IN THE LEFT EYE WITH A PUNK AFTER BENDING DOWN WHILE COUSIN WAS LIGHTING FIREWORKS, FIREWORK TYPE R DX CORNEAL BURN, LEFT EYE

The matches I purchased are unsafe. The match stick is too thin and while striking on the box, they light but then break and have almost caught my shirt and skin on fire before falling to the ground. Obviously I can’t catch the match to prevent it burning something.

Using poorly made and unsafe kitchen matches. They are constantly breaking while I'm striking them on the box. Frequently, large broken and burning splinters and fragments are flying in my face and?or across the room. Last night a burning fragment flew across the room and landed on top of a power fixture and cord. They have several times flown back at my face and eyes.

The adult consumer was striking one of the wooden matches, when the stem snapped just as the match ignited. The match head landed on her 100% polyester shirt. The consumer’s shirt sustained a couple of burn holes. She said that the incident occurred so fast that she is not exactly sure how the incident happened. As she felt the heat on her shirt, she attempted to pull it way and the match may have continued to tumble down at that point. The consumer is not sure, but she believes that she may have caught the match on the shirt. Fortunately, the consumer did not sustain any burns. (8/31/11) The consumer called the brand name company listed in the mfr. section of this report. The consumer spoke with a rep. named [REDACTED] (last name unknown) and he indicated that he would report this to the buyer and a higher authority in his company.

CPSC Soy un consumidor y estoy reportando un INCIDENTE PELIGROSO con el producto Penley Matches en la presentacion de la caja de 250 wooden matches. Producto identificado: Dist. by Penley Corporation. PO Box 277, West Paris, Maine 04289 Made in India. El incidente peligros fue de que estos cerillos al momento de raspar (strike) en la caja para prenderlos la cabeza de estos se desprende y salta hacia varios lados, muchas veces hacia la cara de la persona que los esta prendiendo. El incidente mas peligroso le ocurrio a mi hermana, a la cual le brinco la cabeza del cerillo prendida al ojo, quien por el reflejo al parecer alcanzo a cerrar el ojo y al parecer lo que lesiono el cerillo (una quemadura) fue el area (de la cara) del ojo donde se encuentran las pestanas, sin dejar de ser esta una lesion peligrosa. Pensamos que habia sido una situacion poco comun, sin embargo usando los mismos cerillos a mi persona tambien me brinco los pedacitos de cerillo en la cara sin ocasionar en este caso una lesion, ya que se alcanzaron a apagar en el transcurso hacia mi cara. Al seguirlos usando nos dimos cuenta que en la mayoria de las veces estos pedazos de cerillos (las cabezas) se desprenden de los cerillos saltando hacia varios lados, y en muchos casos hacia la persona. Lo anterior ocurrio en la cocina de una casa habitacion, en la ciudad de Tijuana BC Mexico, frontera con San Diego CA lugar donde se compro este producto el cual consideramos peligroso. Mi nombre [REDACTED] 38 anos, y si pueden incluir mi reporte para la base de datos e investigaciones USA PMB address [REDACTED] CPSC Translation: CPSC, I am a consumer and would like to report a dangerous incident involving the Penley Matches –box contains 250 wooden matches. ID: Dist. by Penley Corporation. PO Box 277, West Paris, Maine 04289 Made in India. When the matches are stroke against the box to light them, the lighted match’s head detaches and flyes in different directions. Often times, it h

I am using kitchen matches and they are unsafe because they break while in the process of striking them and this has happened before.

'EZ FLAMES' wooden match sticks(250/box) These matches ignite easily when struck on the box and frequently break in the process of striking them. On several occasions a FLAME was thrown. In the event the fire lands on a flammable surface it EASILY can start a fire. Fortunately I was able to quickly extinguisher the flame. The 'stick' portion is of such poor quality that this product ENDANGERS the consumer not to mention firefighters.

We had a box of wooden diamond batches. My wife accidentally dropped a closed box on the floor and before she could pick it up the box ignited from within. She poured water on it to stop the fire.

I bought 2 boxes of Penley wooden matches- 250 matches in each box- at a local dollar store, "Dollar Bazaar, 128 Grand St., Johnson City NY 13790, which has since closed. Recently when striking a match, the match broke in half causing the flaming half to drop onto the tablecloth. I quickly blew it out so that only a small charred spot was left on the plastic tablecloth and from then on kept a pitcher of water nearby if lighting candles. A match broke again a few days ago and I'm now soaking all of them in water in order to dispose of them safely. The match box states "Dist. by the Penley Corporation, PO Box 277,Paris, Maine 04289." They were made in India. I would guess that Penley may have gone out of business and sold off its stock to dollar stores, but these matches are a dangerous fire hazard and should be recalled and/or subject to warnings