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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 695
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 55 YOF C/O LEFT EAR ITCHING THIS MORNING, USED END OF A COMB TO SCRATCH AND PERFORATED THE TYMPANIC MEMBRANE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| DX TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA: P/W L SIDED ELECTRIC FEEL'G SHOOT'G HEAD PAINS AFTER TOUCH'G L HEAD W BRUSH'G HAIR OR OTHER TOUCH'G |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| POKED IN EYE WITH HAIRBRUSH BRISTLE. DX. SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE, CO NJUNCTIVITIS.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2008 | Age: 53 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT C/O SOMETHING GETTING IN EYE WHEN COMBING AND BRUSHING HAIR DX: CORNEA ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WITH PW TO FINGER FROM A COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| WHILE BRUSHING HAIR FEW DAYS AGO, PT SWALLOWED A "HAIR BALL" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 54 YOF REACHED OVER TO GRAB A BRUSH AND HAD CHEST PAIN ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2008 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS BRUSHING HER HAIR LEANING FORWARD & LOST BALANCE HITTING BACK OF HEAD ON HOUSE. DX - BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA, LT WRIST FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT BRUSHING HAIR AT HOME AND BRUSH GOT CAUGHT IN HAIR AND PULLED NECK S TRAINED NCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| 71 YO COMBING HAIR STRUCK EYE W/COMB CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2008 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS COMBING HER HAIR AND SCRATCHED SELF IN THE LEFT EYE WITH THE COM B CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Animal induced injury |
| 79Y/O,M,COMBING CAT, CUT FINGER, ACUTE INFECTED LAC. R LITTLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| NOTED BLOOD ON SCALP WHEN COMBING HAIR, NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED. DX. HEA D INJURY, SCALP LACERATION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS USING COMB TO SCRATCH EAR, ACCIDENTALLY POKED SELF IN EAR, LACER ATION TO EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 55 YO MALE SCRATCHED BACK WTH A COMB ABCESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 52 YO FEMALE COMBED HAIR AND POPPED ABCESS ABCESS DRAINING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ACCIDENTALLY POKED EYE WITH THE COMB WHILE BRUSHING HAIR >>CORNEAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 67 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| COMBING HAIR THIS MORNING ACCIDENTLY COMBED EYE ABRASION LEFT CORNEAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 97 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Knickknacks, statues, vases or urns |
| FELL AT NURSING HOME BENDING OVER OT PICK UP A COMB, BROKE A VASE WITH HEAD. DX-FRACTURE FEMUR, DISLOCATED SHOULDER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| THIS MORNING DEVELOPED SUDDENLY CHEST PAIN RADIATING TO THE BACK WHILE BRUSHING HER HAIR >> MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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