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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 367
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/21/2010 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| 62 YOM HAS A CUT IN HIS NOSE FROM THE NOSE HAIR CLIPPERS. DX NOSE LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2010 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| 56 YO M, C/O NOSEBLEED, PT STATES HE WAS CUTTING NOSEHAIR WITH TRIMMER AND MAY HAVE CUT HIMSELF, DX NASAL ABSCESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2010 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| 79YOM HAS LAC TO SEPTUM WHILE TRIMMING NOSE HAIR DX;* NOSE LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2010 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| A 52 YOM TO ER, STATES HAD HAIRCUT, FEELS BARBAR "BURNED" FACE WITH HAI R CLIPPERS, BURN TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2010 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| 69 YOM-PT WAS GETTING A HAIRCUT & L NNARE STARTED TO BLEED DX ACUTE ANTERIOR EPISTAXIS * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PT HAD MOUSTACHE TRIMMED AND SUSTAINED FACIAL SWELLING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| 73YO WHITE MALE TRIMMING EYEBROW & CUT R EYEBROW DX PUNCTURE WOUND R UPPER EYELID-ACUTE BLEEDING RESOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| DX EPIDERMAL INCLUSION CYST R TEMPORAL AREA: PT W LUMP IN THE R TEMPORAL AREA X 4WKS; NOTICED AFTER TRIMM'G HIS HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| LAC NOSE WITH TRIMMING SHEARS WHILE TRIMMING NOSE HAIRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2006 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| PATIENT WAS TRYING TO TRIM HIS NOSE HAIRS AND CLIPPED A SUPERFICIAL VEIN BELOW HIS NOSE AND CONTINUED TO BLEED. DX-LACERATION, UNDER NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2003 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| RT ANTERIOR EPISTAXIS-CUT WHILE SOMEONE WAS TRIMMING NOSE HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair clippers and trimmers |
| TRAUMATIC EPISTAXIS LEFT NARES, CLIPPING NASAL HAIRS WITH CLIPPERS AND ACCIDENTALLY NICKED NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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