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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 143
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/13/2009 | Age: 8 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 |
| PT CORNEAL ABRASION - POKED IN RT EYE W/BARRETTE TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2009 | Age: 7 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 |
| POKED IN THE EYE WITH A PLASTIC BARRETTE. DX CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2009 | Age: 6 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'S MOTHER STATES PT SCRATCHED HER EYE ON HAIR CLIP WHILE GETTING DRES SED. DX. CORNEAL ABRA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2009 | Age: 13 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 SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION WHILE USING A CURLING IRON IT SLIPPED AND HIT HER IN THE EYE* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2009 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| C/O STEAM GOING INTO RT EYE WHILE CURLING HAIR DX: EYE INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 13 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 |
| PATINET IN BATHROOM STYLING HAIR, BURNED EYE ON CURLING IRON; OCULAR BU RN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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