Accidents - Hair clippers and trimmers - 0-5 years old - Years 1997-2010

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,671
See also: Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1997:	94
Year 1999:	100
Year 2000:	178
Year 2001:	33
Year 2002:	129
Year 2003:	258
Year 2004:	139
Year 2005:	96
Year 2006:	81
Year 2007:	52
Year 2008:	283
Year 2009:	21
Year 2010:	199

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Ear:	552	Face:	395
Finger:	219	Head:	205
Eyeball:	103	Internal:	88
Neck:	59	Toe:	22
Foot:	6	All Of Body:	6
Lower Arm:	5	Elbow:	5

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 11/29/2010	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
5YOM WITH RASH ON HEAD AFTER MOM TOOK HIM TO GET HAIRCUT; FOLLICULITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/16/2010	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
3 YR M CUT WITH STRAIGHT BLADE DURING HAIR CUT;DX LACERATED FACE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/13/2010	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
2YOM HAD RIGHT EAR NICKED WHILE GETTING HAIRCUT WITH TRIMMERS EAR LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/08/2010	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
2 YOM DX FOREHEAD LACERATION - S/P BARBER ACCIDENTALLY CUT CHILD WITH CLIPPER ON FOREHEAD.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/30/2010	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
3 YO M, PER MOTHER SHE WAS TRIMMING PT'S HAIR WHEN HE MOVED SUDDENYL AN D SHE CUT HIS LEFT EAR, DX EAR ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2010	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
15MOM HAD HAIR CLIPPED 2 WEEKS AGO, NOW WITH BUMPS ON SCALP; FOLLICULIT IS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/11/2010	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
4YOM WITH LAC TO EAR FROM HAIR CLIPPERS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/30/2010	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers, Counters or countertops
3YOF MOM WAS CUTTING FATHER'S HAIR, ELECTRIC CLIPPERS SLIPPED OFF COUNT ER ONTO PATIENT'S GREAT TOE, HAD JUST PUT NEW BLADES ON; TOE LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/25/2010	Age: 17 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Dislocation
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers, Chairs
17MOM GETTING HAIR CUT AND LIFTED OUT OF CHAIR AT BARBER SHOP, NOT USIN G ARM; NURSEMAID'S ELBOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/01/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
2 YO MALE GETTING HAIR CUT BY DAD - DAD UNPLUGGING CLIPPERS (NOT ON) AN D HIT PTS EYE. DX CORNEAL INJURY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 02/14/2009	Age: 19 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
HAS LAC TO L EAR FROM HAIR CLIPPERS WHILE DAD WAS CUTTING HAIR DX- LA C
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/06/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
@ BARBAR SHOP GETTING HAIRCUT&SUSTAINED AVULSION TYPE LACERATION TO EAR , ?MECH>>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
MOM GAVE PATIENT HAIRCUT 3 DAYS AGO, SMALL PINPOINT BUMP ON SIDE OF HEA D FROM CLIPPERS, NOTICED SCAB; SCALP ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2008	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT SUSTAINED WHEN ACCIDENTALLY INJURED ABRASION TO THE CORNEAL WITH HAIR CLIP. ?
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/30/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
SUPERFICIAL LT EAR LACERATION: DAD CUTTING HIS HAIR, PATIENT MOVED, DAD CUT TOP OF EAR WITH HAIR TRIMMER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/14/2008	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT WAS TRIMMING HIS OWN HAIR WITH HAIR CLIPPERS CUT HEAD WHICH GT INFEC TED CELLULITIS SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/02/2008	Age: 21 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
DROPPED EYEBROW TRIMMER ON FOOT. DX LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/17/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
FB IN NOSE. A PLASTIC HAIR CLIP IN R NOSE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2008	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
HAIR CLIPPED 2 WKS AGO-BACK FOR TRIM TODAY-MOM REPORTS BARBER TOLD PT H AD SCALP RED RASH-THINKS BARBER NOT CLEANING CLIPPERS-RING WORM SCALP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/09/2008	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PAT SUS LACERATION TO FINGER AFTER BEING CUT BY HAIR CLIPPERS%
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/12/2007	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PATIENT GETTING HAIRCUT AT HAIRSTYLIST, WENT LIMP, EYES ROLLED BACK X1 MINUTE, THEN GROGGY/DISORIENTED/SCARED; SYNCOPE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/29/2007	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT RECEIVED LAC TO R EAR FROM CLIPPERS USED WHILE HAVING HAIRCUT TODAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2007	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
MOM CUTTING PATIENT'S HAIR AT HOME, TURNED HEAD AND END OF SCISSORS SCR ATCHED PT'S EYE; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/30/2006	Age: 23 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
EAR WAS CUT WITH BARBER CLIPPERS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2006	Age: 17 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PATIENT WAS STANDING WHILE HAVING HER HAIR CUT, SHE FELL BACKWARDS HITTING TOP OF HER HEAD. DX - BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA WITH SCALP LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/09/2006	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
HEAD DERMATITIS, PT W/ALLERGIC REACTION, GETTING A HAIR CUT, BLEEDING CUTS, REDNESS, RASHES ON FACE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2005	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
GETTING HAIR CUT,GOT CLIPPED BEHIND EAR " LAC"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2005	Age: 23 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
BUT SMALL 3 ELASTIC HAIR BANDS INTO B/L NARES. " FB REMOVAL"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/07/2005	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Arm		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT LAC ARM WITH EYEBROW TRIMMER. DX: LAC FOREARM.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/16/2005	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Neck		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
LAC NECK AREA, MOTHER STS PT SUST CUT WITH A HAIR CLIPPER BY 3YRS OLD COUSIN IN THE SALON, C/O PAIN, TENDERNESS, BLEEDING, EYES EOMI, ENT NML
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2004	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT C/O CUT FINGER. PT CUT FINGER WITH CLIPPERS. DX TOP OF LFT THUMB LAC .
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/01/2004	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	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 clippers and trimmers, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves
ABRASION CORNEA - PATIENT PRESENTS W/RIGHT EYE INJURY - MOTHER SAYS CH ILD PULLED A HAIR CLIPPER OFF THE BATHROOM SHELF INTO RIGHT EYE-TRANS
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 12/21/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT'S BROTHER WAS CUTTING HIS HAIR WITH CLIPPERS, PT MOVED HIS HEAD AND WAS ACCIDENTLY CUT ON LT EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PATIENT RUBBING EYE SINCE MOM CUT HIS HAIR YESTERDAY; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2003	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT CUT WITH HAIR CLIPPERS; LAC EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/23/2003	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PTS.FATHER REPORTED WHILE CUTTING PTS.HAIR CLIPPER SLIPPED PT.SUSTAIN ABRASION TO FOREHEAD AND NOSE. DX-ABRASION FACIAL INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/03/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
PT CUT WITH EYEBROW TRIMMER; LAC THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2003	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
MOM CUTTING HAIR WITH CLIPPERS AND KNICKED EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2002	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
MOTHER STATES THAT HIS R EAR WAS CUT BY CLIPPERS AT A BARBER SHOP TODAY . DX. R EAR ABRA.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2002	Age: 10 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
CHOKED AND PPOSSIBLE ASPIRATED ON HAIRCLIP.
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 08/19/2002	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
REDNESS AND DRAINAGE TO LEFT EAR - CUT WITH CLIPPERS X1 WEEK AGO. D: CELLULITIS LEFT PINNA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2002	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers, Manicuring devices
CONTUSION (L) EYELID, PT GOT STRUCK WITH A CLIPPER SWUNG BY BROTHER,C/O PAIN, NO LOC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/10/2002	Age: 20 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
CUT SELF WITH HAIR CLIPPERS DX. THUMB LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2001	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2001	Age: 17 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/10/2000	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2000	Age: 4 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/31/2000	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/30/2000	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/29/2000	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Toe		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/1999	Age: 17 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/1999	Age: 0 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/17/1997	Age: 20 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/28/1997	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Hair clippers and trimmers
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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