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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 913
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2005 | Age: 32 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 32 YOF POKED RIGHT EYE WITH HAIRBRUSH/ CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/26/2005 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CORNEAL ULCER-ACCIDENTLY HIT EYE W/ COMB-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CONTUSED EYE WITH HAIRBRUSH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2005 | Age: 54 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT COMBING HAIR LAST NIGHT AND HIT EYE WITH BRISTLES OF BRUSH. D: CORNE AL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2005 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS BRUSHING HAIR AND POKED IN EYE WITH BRUSH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2005 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT POKED IN EYE WITH BRUSH; EYE CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2005 | 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT HIT IN L EYE WITH A NYLON HAIR BRUSH BY TODDLER SIBLING ABOUT 15 MIN AGO. DX: L CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 60 YO FEMALE HIT RIGHT EYE ON WITH BRUSH TWO DAYS AGO TRAUMATIC IRITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT C/O STICKING HAIRBRUSH IN THE CORNER OF HER EYE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT C/O "THE TAIL OF A COMB CATCHED ME IN MY RT EYE YESTERDAY" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2005 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS POKED SELF IN EYE WITH HAIRBRUSH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2005 | Age: 25 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| HIT WITH HAIR BRUSH ABRASION CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2005 | Age: 2 years | 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT POKED SELF IN LT EYE WITH METAL HAIR PICK, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2005 | Age: 40 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT POKED SELF WITH HAIRBRUSH; EYE CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2005 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT POKED SELF IN EYE WITH A HAIRBRUSH AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2005 | Age: 31 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PATIENT SCRATCHED RIGHT EYE WITH A BIG TOOTH COMB. DX-RIGHT CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LEFT CORN ABR. PT WAS COMBING HAIR AND POKED EYE WITH BRUSH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2005 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT BRUSHING HAIR AT HOME SUSTAINED AN ABRASION TO LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2005 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT AT HOME COMBING HORSE FB IN EYE DX FB R UPPER EYELID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2005 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ACCIDENTALLY POKED SELF IN THE EYE WITH HAIRBRUSH DX: L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2005 | Age: 10 years | 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| POKED IN THE EYE BY A HAIR PICK CORNEAL ABRASION LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| HIT SELF IN EYE WITH A HAIRBRUSH. DX. CORNEAL ABRASION R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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