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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,391
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2003 | Age: 35 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT DX RT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION - S/P BURNING OD WITH CURLING IRON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2003 | Age: 8 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT C/O WAS POKED IN RT EYE WITH HAIR PIN TONIGHT - C/O REDNESS TO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2003 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BARRETTE IN HAIR HIT PT IN EYE WHILE SHE WAS SWINGING HEAD, HEMORRHAGE EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2003 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 62 YOF BURNED EYE WITH CURLING IRONCORNEAL ABRASION L EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2003 | Age: 13 months | 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PLAYING WITH BROTHER AND GOT HIT IN EYE WITH BARRETTE;CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2003 | Age: 41 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| HIT EYE WITH HOT CURLING IRON DX: L EYE CORNEAL ABRASION / SUPERFICIAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT HIT LT EYE ON CURLING IRON DX: CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2003 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CONTUSED EYEBALL WHEN POKED WITH HAIR BARRETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2003 | 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED HOT CURLING IRON TO EYE. D: CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2003 | Age: 25 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| DX:R EYE CORNEAL ABRASION. TOUCHED EYEBALL WITH CURLING IRON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2003 | Age: 36 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: INJURED EYE WITH CURLING IRON AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2003 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 44 YO F BURN EYE W/CURLING IRON BURN TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2003 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURNED EYEBALL WITH CURLING IRON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| SCRATCHED EYE WITH HAIRBAND CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2003 | Age: 52 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 52 Y.O. B FEMALE W/CORNEAL ABRASION. PT STS GOT SOMETHING IN EYE BY CUR LING IRON THAT WAS NOT ON @ HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2003 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 54 YOF HIT HER OWN RIGHT EYE WITH A CURLING IRON, TH INKS SHE BURNED THE IRIS, IRRITATION TO RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2003 | Age: 2 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CURLING IRON INJURED EYEBALL DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2003 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT. C/O BURN TO EYE FROM A CURLING IRON. C/O BLURRY VISION. DX. C0RNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2003 | Age: 28 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 28YOF CURLING IRON SLIPPED AND BURNED R EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION, R EY E |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2003 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT PRESENT WITH BURN TO LEFT EYE FROM CURLING IRON. DX: BURN LEFT CORN EA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2003 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| TOUCHED EYE WITH CURLING IRON DX. SCLERAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CURLING IRON SLIPPED AND BURNED R EYELID AND INSIDE OF EYE. DX. R CORN EAL ULCER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2003 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| POKED EYE W/ HEADBAND. FEELS LIKE SOMETHING IN EYE. DX; CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2003 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| ACCIDENTLY BURNED EYEBALL WITH CURLING IRON CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2003 | Age: 11 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| MOM CURLING PT'S HAIR AND THE CURLING IRON ACCIDENTALLY BURNED LEFT EYE OF PT AND HAVING PAIN, TEARING. DX. CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| WAS CURLING HAIR WHEN CURLING IRON SLIPPED HURT INSIDE OF EYELID. DX: THERMAL BURN (L) CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| R CORNEAL BURN/31YOF STRUCK EYE WITH CURLING IRON AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT DX RT CORNEAL ABRASION - SINCE A HOT CURLER WENT INTO HER RT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2003 | Age: 13 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT.REPORTED POKED RT.EYE WITH HOT CURLER C/O PAIN AND WATERY EYE WITH BLURRED VISION. DX-RT.CORNEAL ABRASION RT.EYE TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2003 | 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: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CURLING HAIR WITH CURLING IRON AND BURNED EYEBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2003 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WAS CURLING HER HAIR WITH A HOT CURLING IRON AT HOME WHEN SHE WAS ST ARTLED BY ONE OF HER KIDS TOUCHED THE IRON TO LEFT EYE- THERMAL BURN EY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURNED HER EYE W/CURLING IRON A FEW MINUTES PTA. DX BURN R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURNED EYEBALL WITH CURILING IRON/ CORNEAL INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2003 | Age: 15 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| RT CORNEAL AB-EYE HIT W/A CURLING IRON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2003 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT GOT HOT HAIR GREASE IN EYE WHEN IRONING HAIR OR CURLING HAIR LA ST NIGHT, EYE DRAINAGE; CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 31 YO FEMALE BURNED LEFT EYE WITH CURLING IRON CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2003 | Age: 27 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT.REPORTED LIFTING DAUGHTER & HAIR BOW STUCK HER IN RT.EYE C/O PAINRED NESS W/FOREIGN BODY SENSTION. DX-CORNEAL ABRASION RT.EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2003 | 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 5 Y.O. B FEMALE W/EYEBALL CONTUSION. PT STS A BARRETTE STRUCK HER IN TH E EYE WHILE PLAYING. E9179 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CONTUSED EYEBALL WITH HEADBAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT BURNED LT EYE ON CURLING IRON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2003 | Age: 5 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION FROM HAIR CLIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| LEFT EYE BURN INSIDE OF PT EYE WITH CULING IRON. DX CORNEAL BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2003 | Age: 3 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| DX SCLERAL ABRASION: POKED SELF IN EYE WITH HAIR BARRETTE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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