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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 472
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/24/2008 | Age: 50 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 |
| HIT HERSELF IN THE EYE WITH A HOT CURLING IRON. DX R CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2008 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| POKED SELF IN EYE W/ A CURLING IRON IRITIS TRAUMATIC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 31 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 SUS ABRASION TO EYEBALL WHILE USING A CURLING IRON% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2008 | Age: 35 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 SCRATCHED IN EYE BY DAUGHTERS BARRETTE, CONTUSION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2008 | Age: 29 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 CURLING HAIR WITH CURLING IRON WHEN BURNED EYE. D: CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2008 | 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 |
| EYE BURNED-HIT EYE ON CURLING IRON-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2008 | Age: 40 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 |
| CORN ABR. PT WAS USING A CURLING IRON AND DROPPED IT BURNING EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 45 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 |
| PT POKED SELF WITH A CURLING IRON AT HOME TODAY DX/ CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2008 | Age: 37 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 HER EYE WITH A CURLING IRON. DX THERMAL BURN TO L CORNEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2008 | Age: 48 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 |
| ACCIDENTALLY BURN EYE&SURROUNDING SKIN WITH CURLING IRON >> CORNEAL ABRS/BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2008 | Age: 46 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 |
| R CORNEAL ABRAS/46YOF PUT CURLING IRON IN R EYE TODAY AT AROUND NOON. C /O PAIN R EYE. DIFFICULT TO KEEP EYE OPEN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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