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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 57
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| 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: 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: 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: 05/01/2004 | 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 |
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