When a bottle rocket explodes near the face, it can rupture the eyeball beyond repair. Doctors clean and sterilize the eye, but must wait several hours to determine if some vision can be recovered. If no light perception is detected, the eye is considered to be permanently blind. Dr. Phillips warns that inflammation can attack the uninjured eye if the blind one is not quickly removed, which can result in the loss of both. He also cautions that danger is still imminent, even if the eye is not ruptured, because trauma to the eye can also result in it filling with blood, an injury that is also a potential risk for blindness and glaucoma.
Bottle rockets can also cause severe burns to the eye lids.
I am now treating an injury in which most of the child's eyelid was burned away.