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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 659
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/18/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CONTUSED EYE WITH HAIRBRUSH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LAC L UPPER EYELID, PARENTS ST PT PLAYING W/A SIBLING, STRUCK W/A HAIR BRUSH AT HOME, C/O BLEEDING, PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| COMBING HAIR AND COMB GOT STUCK HURT NECK WHILE TRYING TO PULL THE COMB OUT OF HIS HAIR,AT ER FOR UNRESOLVING NECK PAIN; ACUTE NECK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT HAD COMB HIT FOREHEAD. DX: FOREHEAD LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2005 | Age: 4 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| BROTHER TREW HAIRBRUSH, STRUCK PT'S F.HEAD ' LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 2 YO PLAYING W/COMB IN MOUTH INJURED LIP LAC LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CHILD PLACED A "TOOTH" OF A HAIRCOMB UP NOSTRIL. D: FOREIGN BODY, NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT GOT A PIEC EOF HAIRBRUSH STUCK IN EAR. D XEAR FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT PLAYING WITH RAT-TAILED COMB TONIGHT, FELL & END OF COMB WENT INTO L SIDE OF NECK. DX: SMALL PUNCTURE WOUND NECK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PUNCTURE EAR - 5 YOM ACCIDENTALLY WAS POKED IN HIS LEFT EAR WITH A RAT- TAIL COMB BY 2 Y/O SISTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2005 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SWALLOWED PIECE OF HAIR BUSH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| STUCK TAIL OF COMB INTO EAR DX. EAR CANAL ABR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2005 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT STRUCK IN MOUTH WITH HAIRBRUSH BY 2 YR OLD BROTHER, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT PLAYING WITH A COMB PUNCTURED LT EAR WITH COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2005 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Floors or flooring materials |
| PATIENT FOUND LYING ON CARPETED FLOOR, MOM PICKED HIM UP AND HE VOMITED BLOOD W/MILK, WAS PLAYING WITH COMB FOUND LYING NEXT TO HIM; UVULA LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| STUCK COMB IN EAR DX: EAR TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2005 | Age: 11 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| FELL WITH BRUSH IN MOUTH DX. PW PALATE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2005 | Age: 5 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 HIT IN L EYE WITH A NYLON HAIR BRUSH BY TODDLER SIBLING ABOUT 15 MIN AGO. DX: L CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2005 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PATIENT PLAYING IN BASEMENT AT HOME, NEIGHBOR FRIEND THREW HAIR COMB AT HER AND HIT ON FOREHEAD; FOREHEAD LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT PALATE LACERATION WITH METAL HANDLE OF HAIR BRUSH CAUGHT IN MOU TH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS RUNNING WITH A COMB & FELL HURTING NECK DX: NECK INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| PT WAS JUMPING ON A COUCH AT HOME AND HAD A COMB IN HIS MOUTH AND SLIPP ED AND JAMMED THE COMB IN THE SOFT PALLET OF MOUTH.DX:SOFT PALLET INJUR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2005 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | 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 POKED SELF IN LT EYE WITH METAL HAIR PICK, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2005 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LAC R FOOT, PT PLAYING W/SIBLING, STEPPED ON A COMB & SUST INJURY, C/O BLEEDING, PAIN, ROM LIMITED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2005 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT GRABBED MOM'S METAL PICK & CUT INSIDE OF HIS MOUTH. LEFT ER BEFORE SEEN. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 04/16/2005 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Beds or bedframes |
| MOTHER TOSSED HAIRBRUSH ONTO BED THIS A.M., HIT CHILD UNDER L EYE DX: CONTU L PERIORBITAL REGION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2005 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SWALLOWED A PLASTIC TOOTH OFF A COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2005 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT CHEWING ON BRISTLES OF HAIR BRUSH, CHEWED ONE OFF AND SWALLOWED IT F B INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT SUSTAINED INJURY TO LT EAR WITH HANDLE OF COMB - SISTER PUT END OF COMB IN EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Beds or bedframes |
| CONT. R HAND, MOTHER STS PT JUMPED ONTO THE BED & SUST INJURY WITH A COMB, C/O PAIN, BLEEDING, TENDERNESS, NORMAL ROM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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