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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 677
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2008 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| POKED BOBBY PIN IN EAR;DX PUNCTURED EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT'S YOUNGER SISTER STUCK A HAIR CLIP IN PATIENT'S EAR. DX. TRAUMA EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/07/2008 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PUT METAL HAIRPIN INSIDE EAR. ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 3 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| TIP OF A BARRETTE IN EAR. DX FB EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 22 months | 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT STUCK A BOBBY PIN IN LEFT EAR AND DEVELOPED BLEEDING ABRASION EAR C ANAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2008 | Age: 7 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURNED EAR WITH CURLING IRON;DX BURNED EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PIECE OF BOBBY PIN PUT IN EAR;DX FOREIGN BODY EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2008 | Age: 3 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PTS AUNT WAS CLEANING HER R EAR WITH A BOBBY PIN WHEN PT BEGAN COMPLAIN ING OF R EAR PAIN. NO DRAINAGE. DX R TYMPANIC MEMBRANE LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2008 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| MOM STATES SIBLING PUT A HAIR PIN IN CHILDS EAR DX F.O.B IN RT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 4 YOF SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO EAR CANAL WHEN SISTER STUCK A BOBBY PIN INSIDE PT'S EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2008 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 20 MONTH OLD MALE POKED RIGHT EAR WITH BOBBYPIN LACERATION EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2008 | 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PUT HAIR CLIP IN EAR DX: REMOVED FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WAS @ HOME STUCK A BARRETE IN HIS EAR NOW W/ EAR PAIN. DX TRAUMA TO EXTERNAL EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT STUCK A HAIR PIN IN HIS R EAR. UNWITNESSED. HAS BLEEDING FROM EAR CA NAL AND PAIN. HAPPENED YESTERDAY. DX R TM PERFORATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PTS GRANDMOTHER TRIPPED OVER THE CORD OF A HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND IT FEL L ON PTS L EAR. HAS BURNS TO EAR. DX 2ND DEGREE BURN L EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT HAD A BOBBY PIN IN EAR EARLIER TODAY ; NOW EAR IS DRAINING. D: PER FORATED TM / EAR INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| OTITIS MEDIA-SCRATCHED EAR W/A HAIRPIN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| HAS A HAIR CLIP STUCK IN HIS EAR, EAR BLEEDING DX: BLUNT EAR TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2008 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| STUCK HAIRPIN IN EAR;DX PUNCTURED EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | 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: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT STUCK BOBBY PIN IN EAR, BOBBY PIN REMOVED & EAR CONTINUES TO BLEED, ABRASION TO EAR CANAL; PERFORATED EAR DRUM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT STUCK A HAIRPIN IN HIS R EAR AND HIS EAR BEGAN BLEEDING. PT HAS PAIN IN R EAR. DX R TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT STUCK HAIRPINS IN HIS EAR TO CLEAR OUT EARWAX. IS NOW HAVING BLEEDIN G FROM BOTH EARS. DX FB IN EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| MOM FOUND PATIENT WITH BOBBY PIN IN EAR CRYING WITH BLOOD FROM EAR, BLE EDING STOPPED AFTER TAKING BOBBY PIN OUT; EAR TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 13 months | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT STUCK A BOBBY PIN IN EAR. D: PERFORATED TM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2008 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 19 MTH OLD M TRAUMA TO AUDITORY CANAL CHILD HAD BOBBY PIN IN HIS EAR* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PUNCTURE WOUND R EAR,PROBABLE RUPTURE TYMPANIC MEMBRANE:BABY ACCID. PUT BOBBY PIN INTO R EAR, BLOOD DRAINAGE, FLUID EAR CANAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| SMALL METAL HAIR PIN IN EAR CANAL REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2008 | 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: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PUT A HAIR CLIP IN EAR AND NOW IT'S BLEEDING. DX. OTITIS EXTERNA.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2008 | 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WAS PLAYING WITH A BOOBY PIN RUNNING FELL WITH PIN IN EAR NOW HAS BLEEDING. DX RIGHT EAR INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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