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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 645
See also: Other years, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/26/2008 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| 40 YOM CUT INSIDE OF NOSE WHILE TRIMMING NOSE HAIRS LACERATION FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PAINFUL BUMPS TO HEAD AFTER USING SHAVER CLIPPERS ON HAIR DX: FOLLICULI TIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| RIGHT FOREARM LAC, PT CUT FOREARM WHEN TRIMMING DOG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| @ BARBAR SHOP GETTING HAIRCUT&SUSTAINED AVULSION TYPE LACERATION TO EAR , ?MECH>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| MULTIPLE ABSCESSES ON HEAD AFTER SHAVING WITH CLIPPERS IN JAIL ABSCESS HEAD * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| DX EPIDERMAL INCLUSION CYST R TEMPORAL AREA: PT W LUMP IN THE R TEMPORAL AREA X 4WKS; NOTICED AFTER TRIMM'G HIS HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| 80 YOM WAS GETTING HAIRCUT AND BARBER NICKED PT'S LEFT EAR WITH THE TRI MMERS, PT SUSTAINED LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT DX HAND LACERATION - CUT HAND WITH EDGE OF TRIMMER AT HOME JUST PTA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT WITH ABSCESS ON HEAD AFTER GETTING HAIR CUT LAST WEEK WITH CLIPPERS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT STATES CUT FINGER WHILE USING CLIPPERS DX RT FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| MOM GAVE PATIENT HAIRCUT 3 DAYS AGO, SMALL PINPOINT BUMP ON SIDE OF HEA D FROM CLIPPERS, NOTICED SCAB; SCALP ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2008 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT CUT EAR WITH NAIL CLIPPER AT HOME DX/ RIGHT EAR LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| DX R 2ND INDEX PAONYCHIAL CELLULITIS: PT HAD NAILS MANICURED AT A NAIL SALON. THE MANICURIST CUT PT'S CUTICLE, PACKED W SOME SUBSTANCE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| LEFT EAR LAC, PT WAS TRIMMING HAIR AND CUT EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| DX FOLLICULITIS: C/O RASH ONSET AFTER GETTING HAIRCUT 2 DAYS AGO--BROKE OUT W RASH ON BASE OF NECK W ITCHING AND BURNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT GOT HAIR CUT BY AUNT WHO WAS USING CLIPPERS. NOW SCRAPES ON HEAD. DX ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| CONTACT DERNMATITIS.PT USED FRIENDS CLIPPERS TO SHAVE NECK AND NOW HAS A RED RAIDES RASH ON NECK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2008 | Age: 22 months | 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: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT SUSTAINED WHEN ACCIDENTALLY INJURED ABRASION TO THE CORNEAL WITH HAIR CLIP. ? |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| SUPERFICIAL LT EAR LACERATION: DAD CUTTING HIS HAIR, PATIENT MOVED, DAD CUT TOP OF EAR WITH HAIR TRIMMER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| CUT ON EAR BY CLIPPERS DURING HAIR-CUT. DX EAR LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| LAC NOSE WITH TRIMMING SHEARS WHILE TRIMMING NOSE HAIRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/14/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT WAS TRIMMING HIS OWN HAIR WITH HAIR CLIPPERS CUT HEAD WHICH GT INFEC TED CELLULITIS SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2008 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| DROPPED EYEBROW TRIMMER ON FOOT. DX LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| FB IN NOSE. A PLASTIC HAIR CLIP IN R NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| HAIR CLIPPED 2 WKS AGO-BACK FOR TRIM TODAY-MOM REPORTS BARBER TOLD PT H AD SCALP RED RASH-THINKS BARBER NOT CLEANING CLIPPERS-RING WORM SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PAT SUS LACERATION TO FINGER AFTER BEING CUT BY HAIR CLIPPERS% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT AT BARBER SHOP GETTING HAIR CUT X4 DAYS, NOW W/KNOT TO TOP OF HEAD, AREA TENDER TO TOUCH W/SM AMT HAIR LOSS; ABSCESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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