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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 340
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2004 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| SYNCOPE,BRADYCARDIA,HYPOTENSION - NEAR SYNCOPE WHEN HAVING HAIR BLOWDRY ED AT BEAUTY SALON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| B LOW DRYING HAIR AND EXACERBATED DJD IN UPPER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2004 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| LEFT FOOT THERMAL BURN. PT DROPPED AN ELECTRIC HAIR DRYER ONTO FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2004 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| BURN NECK - 70 YOF WAS SITTING AT THE HAIR SALON UNDER A HAIR DRYER AND THE BACK OF HER NECK GOT BURNED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| RT FOOT CONTUSION.PT DROPPED A HAIR DRYER ON FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2004 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE - BECAME WEAK WHEN USING HAIR DRYER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2004 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| LEFT EYE FB. PT WAS USING A BLOW DRYER AND GOT SOMETHING INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2004 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| 87 YO F SITTING UNDER HAIR DRYER HAS SYNCOPAL EPISODE SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2004 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| STATES SHE SLIPPED OVER HAIR DRYER AND INJURED HAND DX LT HAND ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2004 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| 78 YO F PASSED UNDER HAIR DRYER SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2004 | Age: 92 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| SYNCOPAL EPISODE - SYNCOPE WHEN GETTING OUT FROM UNDER HAIR DRYER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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