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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 191
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/19/2003 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PLAYING WITH BROTHER AND GOT HIT IN EYE WITH BARRETTE;CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2003 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CONTUSED EYEBALL WHEN POKED WITH HAIR BARRETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| SCRATCHED EYE WITH HAIRBAND CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CURLING IRON INJURED EYEBALL DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CURLING IRON SLIPPED AND BURNED R EYELID AND INSIDE OF EYE. DX. R CORN EAL ULCER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 5 Y.O. B FEMALE W/EYEBALL CONTUSION. PT STS A BARRETTE STRUCK HER IN TH E EYE WHILE PLAYING. E9179 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CONTUSED EYEBALL WITH HEADBAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION FROM HAIR CLIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| DX SCLERAL ABRASION: POKED SELF IN EYE WITH HAIR BARRETTE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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