SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Electrical shock / short

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20200916-54427-2147369755. Severity: Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received. Product: Finish Powerball Quantum dishwashing pods (Finish Powerball Quantum dishwashing pods). Incident: I sent a similar write-up to the Finish Corporate Offices, but this is what happened: Monday night, 09/14/20, I was loading the dishwasher and using Finish Quantum Powerball pods. Two of them were stuck together and when I went to pull them apart, the blue and red liquid pods burst and went into my left eye. I called my brother, who is an internal medicine doctor, and he had me rinse my eyes out immediately for about 20 minutes turning my eye in various directions. After I did that, he had me put a patch on my eye and every 15 minutes put saline solution in it, since he wanted to get the PH level back up. After about 2 1/2 hours of that, I took the patch off and looked through my left eye - it was like driving in a deep fog. I called my provider and poison control and they recommended I go to the emergency room. While there they flushed my eye out with 3 liters of saline solution, over about a 3 hour period. There were breaks between because it was so painful to do that. I was told by the doctors there that what I had splashed in my eye was probably one of the worst things out there that could have been put into it, since it is so concentrated. Poison control told me the same thing before I went down to the hospital. They put ointment in my eye and sent me home around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, my eye was swelled shut and watering profusely, and very light sensitive. It still looked like I was looking through fog. I had an appointment with an ophthalmologist that day. He said that it appears my epithelial layer of my eye has been burned off. He does not yet know if I will h