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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 613
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/16/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| LAC TO CHEEK WHEN STRUCK BY A PLASTICK COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2009 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 12 MONTH F MAY HAVE SWALLOWED A PLASTIC COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2009 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT HAD HAIR BRUSH IN MOUTH, SISTER WAS PICKING HER UP AND SHE ACCID DRO PPED HER. FELL ABOUT 1 FT. HAIR BRUSH CAUSED LAC IN MOUTH. DX MOUTH LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 5YOM MOM BRUSHING HAIR WITH HAIR BRUSH AND CAUGHT EAR ABRASION EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2009 | Age: 18 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, Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| MOUTH LAC-18 MOM-RAN INTO A COUCH-HAD COMB IN MOUTH-CUT MOUTH-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2009 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT DX 2ND DEGREE BURN TO FOREHEAD AND CHEEK - S/P BIBEMS,HX OF PATIENT GRABBING HOT COMB AND GOT BURNED TO RT SIDE OF FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2009 | Age: 17 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| OLDER BROTHER MAY HAVE PUT COMB IN EAR LAST NIGHT PERFORATED TYMPANIC MEMBRANE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2009 | Age: 2 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 |
| PT POKED A RAT TAIL COMB N EAR, DX; EAR CANAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT STUCK END OF COMB IN HER EAR, DX: ABRASION TO INNER EAR CANAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PATIENT SCREAMING WITH EAR PAIN AFTER STICKING A COMB IN EAR; EAR PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT HAD A COMB IN HER MOUTH AT HOME WHEN SHE TRIPPED AND FELL AND IT CUT THE TOP OF HER MOUTH. BLED BRIEFLY. HAS PAIN. DX MOUTH LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ABRASION TO MOUTH WHEN FELL WITH A COMB IN MOUTH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | 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 STUCK A PLASTIC HAIR PICK IN MOUTH, DX LAC TO LIP AND MOUTH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2009 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT TRIPPED WHILE CARRYING A COMB YEST AND FELL W/IT IN HER MOUTH, C/O M OUTH PAIN AND MASERATED TONSIL W/LG LAC; TONSIL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/18/2009 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| HIT WITH HAIR BRUSH;DX LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PTS MOTHER WAS COMBING HAIR WHEN CHILD PULLED AWAY AND FELT A POP IN LE FT ELBOW DISLOCATED ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| MOM BRUSHING PATIENT'S HAIR WHEN SLUMPED OVER, PALE, MOM CAUGHT HER BEF ORE SHE FELL; SYNCOPAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2009 | Age: 18 months | Sex: Female | 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 HAS LACERATION TO PALATE DUE TO PUTTING COMB IN MOUTH DX: MOUTH LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2009 | 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: Elbow | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| AUNT OR MOM BRUSHING PTS HAIR, PT PULLED AWAY AND AUNT OR MOM PULLED PT BACK BY ARM, NOW NOT USING ARM; NURSEMAIDS ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTLY HIT WITH A METAL HAIR BRUSH THROWN BY HER BROTHER DX: FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| TICK REMOVAL: TICK IN HER HEAD, MOTHER FOUND WHILE COMBING HER HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PATIENT PLAYING WITH A COMB, TOOTH OF COMB BROKE OFF IN EAR; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT HAD A COMB & MOM STATES PT MAY HAVE POKED EYE WITH IT, HAS BEEN RUBB ING EYE, NOW W/TEARING, DISCHARGE & REDNESS TO EYE; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2009 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT DX SCALP ABRASION - S/P DUE TO COMBING BY MATERNAL AUNT DURING BATHING TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/15/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SIS PUT SHARP PART POINT OF COMB (POINT FOR PARTING HAIR) IN L EAR, SAW DRIED BLOOD. DX: L EAR CANAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2009 | 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 |
| COMB WENT INTO BACK OF MOUTH - SHARP END OF COMB IN MOUTH. DX LACERATI ON |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/13/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT HAS A PIECE OF A COMB IN EAR. DX FB EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2009 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SWALLOWED TEETH FROM A COMB THAT HE HAD IN HIS MOUTH DX: FB INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Beds or bedframes |
| PLAYING WITH A COMB, IN BED, & CUT INSIDE OF HER MOUTH DX: INTRAORAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT GOT FB IN EAR (PIECE OF A COMB) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT HAD COMB IN MOUTH, FELL HIT FACE ON GROUND. PUNCTURE WOUND TO ROOF OF MOUTH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/31/2009 | Age: 3 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 |
| PT.S SISTER STUCK END OF COMB IN EAR CANAL W/ BLOOD DX: R EAR CANAL TRAUMA/ BLEEDING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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