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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,066
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2007 | Age: 12 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 |
| HAIR BRUSH FELL INTO EYE DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/22/2007 | Age: 5 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 |
| CONTUSED EYE, HIT WITH HAIRBRUSH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/25/2007 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| NS:GIRLFRIEND WAS BRUSHING HIS HAIR, ACCIDENTALLY POKED HIM IN EYE, SCRATCH LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2007 | Age: 2 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 |
| HIT SELF IN EYE WITH HAIRBRUSH AND SUSTAINED AN ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2007 | Age: 45 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 |
| POKED HERSELF IN THE EYE WITH A COMB. DX- L CORNEAL ABRASION # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| COMBING AND SCRATHING HAIR SOMETHING IN EYE FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2007 | Age: 22 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 |
| SCRATCHED EYE W/ HAIRBRUSH LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2007 | Age: 38 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 IN EYE WITH A HAIRBRUSH AT HOME DX: LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PLAYING W/ A SMALL PLASTIC COMB AND A PIECE OF IT BROKE OFF AND WENT IN TO EYE. DX: F.B. (COMB PIECE) IN L EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| POKED SELF INTO EYE C A COMB PICK @ THE STORE >> CORNEAL ABRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2007 | Age: 4 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 |
| CORNEAL ABRASION OF LEFT EYE - HAIRBOW FROM ANOTHER CHILD STRUCK HER IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2007 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SIBLING POKED COMB IN PTS EYE, REDNESS OUTER EDGE SCLERA, SUBCONJUNCT IVAL HEMORRHAGE, SUPERFICIAL EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2007 | Age: 9 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 WITH ABRASION TO EYE, WAS POKED WITH A COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2007 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 4 YO MALE HIT EYE ON HAIR BRUSH SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2007 | Age: 50 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 |
| METAL EYELASH COMB CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2007 | Age: 43 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 |
| 43YOF HAIR BRUSH TO EYE EYE CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2007 | Age: 56 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 |
| 56 YOF WAS BRUSHING HAIR AND HIT LEFT EYE SUSTAINING A CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2007 | Age: 52 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 SELF WITH HAIR BRUSH CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2007 | Age: 37 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 |
| HAIR BRUSH FELL IN EYE LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2007 | Age: 12 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 PRESENTED WITH CORNEAL ABRASION TO RIGHT EYE. PT AND SIBLING WERE PL AYING AND POSSIBLY A COMB WAS THROWN STRIKING PT IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2007 | Age: 31 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 |
| CORNEAL AB-POKED SELF IN EYE W/ PICK/ COMB WHILE COMBING HAIR-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2007 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT SUSTAINED AN ABRASION OF AN EYE BY BEING POKED BY A HAIR PICK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2007 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ABRASION CORNEA -61 YO FEMALE PRESENTS WITH PERI ORBITAL AREA SWOLLEN W ITH EYE REDNESS AND TEARNING - SCRAPED EYE WITH COMB - LWBS BY MD |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
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