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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 221
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT GOT A PIECE OF A BARRETTE IN SCALP. DX HEAD FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT CARRYING ANOTHER CHILD FELL BACKWARDS HITTING BACK OF HEAD WITH BARR ETTE IN HAIR, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Floors or flooring materials |
| 7 YO FEMALE WAS DOING FLIPS WITH HAIR TIES (BALLS) IN HAIR AND FELL TO FLOOR - LACERATION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/28/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT HIT HEAD TONIGHT & PART OF BARRETTE STUCK IN TOP OF HEAD. DX: FOREIGN BODY HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| HAIR IN PONYTAIL WITH BEADS FOR 1 WEEK WHEN STAYING WITH FAMILY THIS WE EKEND, TOOK OUT AND NOTICED HEAD LAC/LESION; SCALP LAC/WOUND FROM BEADS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PLAYING AND FELL ONTO HAIR BARRETTE DX FB TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| LACERATION HEAD - PATIENT FELL ONTO GROUND AND HER BARRETTE CUT INTO HE R HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT DEVELOPED DELAYED FELL WITH BARRETT GOING INTO SCALP, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT BURNED HEAD ON A CURLING IRON.DX HEAD BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT HAD BEADS IN HAIR AND FELL STRIKING HEAD ON THE GROUND. THE BEADS LA C HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT FELL FROM STANDING POSITION & HIT HEAD WITH BEADS & CLIPS IN HAIR ON PAVEMENT - LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WENT TO THE BEAUTY PARLOR AND RELAXER WAS PLACED ON HER HAIR. NOW S HE HAS BURN BEHIND AND ON HER EARS BILATERALLY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2004 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| MOM TOOK HAIR BANDS OUT AND NOTICED SCALP RASH; TRACTION FOLLICULITIS/I RRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2004 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WAS UNDOING HAIR BUTTONS, STATES TOO TIGHT, CAUSED AVULSION TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WAS WEARING HAIR BEADS, FELL, POSSIBLY HAS HAIR BEAD EMBEDDED IN SCA LP, |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 2 YO FEMALE HAD BARRETTE IN HAIR AND BUMPED HEAD ON BACK OF SEAT IN MVA CONTUSION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT FELL AND HAIR CLIP CUT SCALP AT HOME; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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