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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 75
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/20/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 3 YO FEMALE HAS RASH ON SCALP FROM CURLERS TINEA CORPUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2005 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT FELL AND HIT HEAD ON BARRET AT HOME; SCALP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 2 YOF FELL WHILE PLAYING, HAIR CLIP CAUSED LACERATION TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT SLIPPED IN WATER & FELL, HITTING HEAD AT SCHOOL TODAY AT APPROX 14:00. MOM THINKS BARRETTE PUNCTURED PT'S HEAD. DX: LAC SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| WITH A SEIZURE TODAY, PT FELL & CUT HER SCALP. MOTHER THINKS IT WAS ON A HAIR BEAD. DX: LAC SCALP, SEIZURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2005 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT FLIPPED OVER AND HAIRBOW WENT INTO HEAD; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2005 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Grocery or shopping carts |
| FELL FROM SHOPPING CART WITH BARRETTE IN HAIR DX. PW SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT JUMPING ON BED, FELL & HIT HEAD ON FLOOR RIGHT WHERE BARRETTE WAS IN HAIR. DX: LAC SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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