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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 425
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 03/28/2010 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 58YOF W # OF MEDICAL PROBLEMS HX NASAL CONGESTION & COUGH AND PAINFUL B UMP TO SCALP WHERE WEARS BARRETTE IN HAIR DS U R I SCALP ABRAS CONTS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURNED SCALP ON MONDAY WITH HOT CURLING IRON SCALP ABSCESS # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURN TO SCALP TWO DAYS AGO WITH CURLING IRON SCALP BURN * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT HEAD WAS BURNED WITH A HAIR STRAIGHTENER AT BEAUTY SHOP TODAY DX// BURN SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2007 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT SLEPT WITH ROLLERS IN HER HAIR AND INJURED HER SCALP DX// SCALP ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2005 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Floors or flooring materials |
| 79 YOF LACERATES SCALP WITH HAIR CLIP IN A FALL TO FLOOR AT HOME. NO LO C. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2002 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT SUST. HEAD INJURY TRIPPING OVER CURLER AND FALLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2001 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/1999 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Floors or flooring materials |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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