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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 119
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2006 | Age: 15 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 |
| CONTUSED EYE, HIT WITH CURLING IRON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2006 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PATIENT GOT CURLING IRON TOO CLOSE TO EYE AT HOME. DX: ULCERATION FROM THERMAL BURN TO RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2006 | Age: 13 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 |
| CURLING BANGS, CURLING IRON TOUCHED SCLERA D-CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2006 | Age: 14 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 |
| CONTUSED EYE WITH CURLING IRON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2006 | Age: 15 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 |
| CURLING IRON BURNED EYEBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2006 | Age: 8 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 |
| CONTUSED EYE WITH HAIR BARRETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2006 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT SUSTAINED BURN INJURY TO RT EYE WITH CURLING IRON - DX CORNEAL TRAUMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2006 | Age: 10 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 |
| PATIENT HIT IN EYE BY METAL PART OF HAIR SCRUNCHIE AT HOME, EYE PAIN; C ORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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