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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 719
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/16/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK LEFT EYE WITH COMB WHILE AT HOME COMBING HER HAIR. DX ACUTE CORNEAL ABRASION LEFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2002 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| BRUSHING HAIR 2 WEEKS AGO AT HOME, FELT 2 SNAPS IN SHOULDER, NOW HAS EC CHYMOSIS, SWELLING UPPER ARM. DX; HEMATOMA UPPER ARM, ON ****. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2002 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| POKED EYE W/ RAT-TAILED COMB DX: LT. CORNEAL ABRASION, SUBCONUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2002 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT BRUSHING HAIR WITH A BRUSH AT HOME, ACCIDENTLY BRUSHED LT EYE, LT EY E CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2002 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| DOG BITE;LAC R HAND/88YOF WHILE BRUSHING HER DOG, DOG BIT HER. HAPPENED THIS MORNING. STILL BLEEDING & WORRIED ABOUT BONE INJ. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2002 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 67 Y.O. B FEMALE W/SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE. PT'S GRANDCHILD WAS PLAY ING W/A HAIRBRUSH & ACCIDENTLY STRUCK PT IN THE EYE @ HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT.C/O BACK OF NECK TENDER AND SCARRED WHEN SCRATCH NECK W/COMB PT.REPORTED POSSIBLE INSECT BITE.DX-INFECTED INSECT BITE NECK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2002 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 64 YO M HIT IN EYE WITH HAIR BRUSH CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2002 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SHE WAS COMBING HER CAT AT HOME LAST WEEK AND WAS BITTEN ON THE LEFTHAN D, NOW HAND IS SWOLLEN AND TENDER. DX CELLULITIS LEFT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2002 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT.REPORTED SHE STUCK HERSELF IN LT.LEG WITH END OF COMB AT HOME. DX-PUNCTURE WOUND LT.LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2002 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| DX FOREIGN BODY RIGHT HEEL: STEPPED ON HAIRBRUSH BRISTLE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2002 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT LAST PM COMBING HAIR WITH BRUSH WHICH CAME BACK & HITLEFT EYE. DX: LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2002 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| TRAPEZIUS STRAIN-WHILE COMBING HAIR YESTERDAY HURT SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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