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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 292
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| SUDDENLY WHILE SITTING UNDERNEATH HAIR DYRER HAVING HER HAIR DONE, DEVE LOPED DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEANDESS THEN PASSED OUT>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| BELIEVES HAIR DRYER WAS WET WHEN SHE PLUGGED IT IN AND WAS SHOCKED. DX MILD ELECTRICAL SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2008 | Age: 90 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 dryers |
| 90 YOF WAS GETTING HAIR DONE, SITTING UNDERNEATH HAIR DRYER WHEN SHE BE CAME UNRESPONSIVE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers, Chairs |
| SUDDENLY DEVELOPED DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEADNESS WHILE SITTING ON A CHAIR WIT H HEAD UNDER THE DRYER @ HAIR SALON THEN PASSED OUT>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 93 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| VASO-VAGAL SYNCOPE/93YOF AT SENIOR LIVING HOME, WHILE SITTING UNDER HAI R DRYER THIS AM, HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK-SUS AN ELECTRIC SHOCK WHILE USING A HAIR DRYER. NO OTHER INFO. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/13/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| WHILE MOME STRAIGHTENING/BLOWING HER HAIR, LOOKED INTHE MIRROR, SAW BRI GHT COLORS THEN PASSED OUT>> SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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