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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,474
See also: Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2010 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 51 YOF PLAYING WITH DOG RECENTLY IN TUGGING GAME AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK, NOTICED THIS MORNING WHILE BRUSHING HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2010 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 58 YOF WAS COMBING HAIR AND GOT PAIN IN LEFT LOWER BACK LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2010 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 49 YOM PUT A HAIRBRUSH IN RECTUM. DX: RECTAL FB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2010 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 11YOF STATES 16 YO ROOMMATE AT GROUP HOME SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER, WOKE TO FEMALE ON TOP OF HER, HAD STUCK BRUSH HANDLE IN PT'S RECTUM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2010 | Age: 94 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| HIP FX. 94 YOM WAS STANDING IN BATHROOM COMBING HAIR AND FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/01/2009 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT FELL ON A HAIR BRUSH WHICH POKED HER ABD THREE WEEKS AGO, NO HAS PAIN IN RIBS AND ABD, DX: ABD WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2009 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WITH A BRUSH IN RECTUM |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 14 YOM STATES HAD END OF SHARP COMB STUCK INTO LEFT HIP AREA AND ABOUT AN INCH DEEP, PULLED OUT BY SELF, LWBS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/20/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT INJURED @ HOME BRUSHING HAIR FELT BACK PAIN DX: BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT COMBING HER HAIR AND SLIPPED STRAINED LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2007 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Floors or flooring materials |
| CONTUSION HIP (R): FELL WHEN BENT OVER TO PICK UP HAIRBRUSH, LOST BALANCE, FELL ON FLOOR, 90 MINUTES TILL ABLE TO GET UP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LUMBAR STRAIN.PT WAS COMBING HAIR AND BACK BEGAN TO HURT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT BENT SOWN TO PICK UP A HAIR BRUSH AND HEARD A POP AND FELT PAIN IN H ER BACK DX// ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2006 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PARASPINOUS LUMBAR SPASM; BENT OVER TO PICK UP COMB & HAD SEVERE PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2006 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LUMBAR STR. PT RAISED ARM TO COMB HAIR AND FELT A POP IN BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2006 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS BRUSHING HAIR AND FELT POP. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2006 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| C/O PT STATES HAD BACK PAIN WHILE BRUSHING HAIR DX LOWER TUNK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2006 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT COMBING HAIR AND STEPPED SIDEWAYS, FELT SHARP, SHOOTING PAIN TO LOW BACK DOWN LEGS DX: BACK PAIN, SCIATICA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| C/O LOW BACK PAIN, DEVELOPED WHILE COMBING HAIR, DX; LOW BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT STATES PULLING BACK OUT WHEN REACHING OUT FOR COMB DX:LOW BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2005 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Beds or bedframes |
| 11 YO JUMPED ON BED AND GOT STUCK W/COMB IN ABDOMEN PUNCTURE WOUND ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/21/2005 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Stairs or steps |
| CONTUSION ABDOMEN - 15 YOF GOT UP IN THE DARK AND FELL DOWN THE STAIRS LANDING ON HER HAIRBRUSH, C/O RIGHT LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT HAS LBP SINCE BRUSHING HAIR THIS MORNING AT HOME. DX: LBP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/16/2004 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT. FELL WHILE BRUSHING HER HAIR AND LOST HER BALANCE AND FELL BACKWARD S AT NH, FELL TO FLOOR. DX. R HIP CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| RT BUTTOCK PUNCTURE WOUND-SUS A SMALL PUNCTURE WOUND TO RT BUTTOCK AFTE R SITTING ON A COMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| STATES SITTING COMBING HER HAIR AND HAD ONSET OF RUQ ABDOMINAL PAIN. D X. ABDM PAIN, ANEMIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2003 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LUMBAR STR. PT STRAINED BACK WHEN PICKING UP A COMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2003 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| MOM BROUGHT PATIENT TO ED AFTER MISSING AT FRIEND'S HOUSE OVERNIGHT, CO NCERNED FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITY, ALSO HAD BURN ON HIP FROM HOT COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2002 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LOW BACK PAIN - WAS COMBING HAIR AND TWISTED WRONG INJURING LOWER BACK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2001 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/02/2001 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2001 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/13/2001 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2000 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2000 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2000 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2000 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2000 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Floors or flooring materials |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/31/1999 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/1999 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/13/1998 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/1998 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/1998 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/1998 | 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: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/1997 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Sinks |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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