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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,049
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2005 | Age: 44 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 BURNED RT EYE WITH CURLING IRON DX: CORNEAL AB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2005 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| DROPPED CURLING IRON ON EYE, " IRITIS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2005 | Age: 37 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 |
| PT USING A CURLING IRON AT HOME, HIT HER RT EYE WITH IT, THERMAL BURN R T EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2005 | Age: 31 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 CURLING HER HAIR WITH A CURLING IRON WHEN SHE ACCIDENTLY TOUCHED HER RIGHT EYE WITH THE IRON THERMAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2005 | Age: 34 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PAIN TO EYE STUCK SELF WITH HAIR PIN DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2005 | Age: 48 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 |
| CORNEAL ABRASION RT EYE-BURNED RT EYE WITH A CURLING IRON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2005 | Age: 49 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 |
| USING CURLING IRON ON HAIR AND IT SLIPPED AND STRUCK EYE SCLERAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2005 | Age: 46 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 |
| BURN EYE ON HOT CURLING IRON RIGHT EYE BURN W/ CURLING IRON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2005 | Age: 30 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 |
| EYE BURNED WITH CURLING IRON DX 1ST DEGREE BURN R CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2005 | Age: 47 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 |
| 1. 47 YOF BURNED EYE WITH CURLING IRON AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2005 | Age: 46 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 |
| BURNED EYE WITH CURLING IRON DX CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2005 | Age: 32 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 |
| HIT IN EYE WITH BARETTE DX. CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2005 | Age: 33 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 |
| PT BURNED EYE WITH CURLING IRON. D: CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2005 | Age: 41 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 |
| L EYE CORNEAL BURN/41YOF AT 5:30AM AT HOME BURNED EYE WITH CURLING IRON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2005 | Age: 40 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 HIT EYE WITH CURLING IRON TODAY WHILE AT HOME, HAS EYE PAIN. DX: COR NEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2005 | Age: 38 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: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PRESENTS W/ POSSIBLE BURN TO L EYE, PT USING CURLING IRON, IT SLIPPED A ND HIT HER IN THE EYE DX: L CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2005 | Age: 41 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WAS OPENNING A HAIRCLIP AND SOMETHING POPPED IN HER EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2005 | Age: 32 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 BURNED WITH HOT CURLING IRON; TB EYEBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2005 | Age: 50 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 |
| DROPPED CURLING IRON ONTO LT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2005 | Age: 27 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 HIT RT EYE WITH CURLING IRON AFTER SLIPPING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 37 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 |
| BURN LEFT EYE-SUS INJ TO LEFT EYE WHEN SHE ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED HER LEF T EYE WITH A CURLING IRON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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