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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 487
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/03/2009 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water |
| 23YOF SPILLED HOT WATER ONTO HEAD DX: BURN TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2009 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water, Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT SPILLED HOT WATER ON HEAD WHILE USING HOT ROLLERS. DX: FIRST DEG SCALP BURN, L EYE CONJUNCTIVITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water |
| BURN TO HEAD RINSING HAIR WITH HOT WATER DX: BURN TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water |
| PT IS AUTISTIC AND WAS WASHING HAIR AT A FAMILY MEMBERS HOUSE AND WATER WAS TOO HOT AND PT'S SCALP WAS BURNT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2004 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water |
| PT HELPING FRIEND WORK ON CAR WHEN THEY REMOVED RADIATOR CAP AND HOT WA TER SPRAYED ON PT'S HEAD. D: 1ST DEGREE BURN, SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hot water |
| PATIENT DROPPED HOT WATER ON HERSELF. DX-PARTIAL THICKNESS BURNS, LEFT & RIGHT LEGS. FELL SUSTAINING A CLOLSED HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water, Cookware |
| PT SUSTAINED 2ND DEGREE BURN TO BACK LESS THAN 5 PER CENT - C/O BURN TO BACK OF HEAD YESTERDAY WHILE HOLDING A POT OF HOT WATER BEHIND HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2001 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water, Bathtubs or showers |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/1999 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/1997 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Hot water |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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