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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,419
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT PRESENTS TO ER WITH HEMATOMA TO RT GREAT TOE STATES LAST NIGHT DROPP ED HAIR DRYER ON TOE-HEMATOMA TO GREAT TOE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/25/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| INJURED EYE WITH A HAIR DRYER WHILE AT HOME. CORNEAL ABRASION, LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2008 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| 63YOF WHILE USING A HAIR DRYER,DROPPED THE DRYER ON LT GREAT TOE; TOE FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT AT THE SALON LAYING WITH HER HEAD UNDER THE DRYER AND HER NECK STRAT ED TO HURT STRAINED NECK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| SUDDENLY WHILE SITTING UNDERNEATH HAIR DYRER HAVING HER HAIR DONE, DEVE LOPED DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEANDESS THEN PASSED OUT>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| HAIRDRYER FELL ON HAND;DX LACERATED FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK IN THE R EYE WITH A CORD FROM A HAIR DRYER. HAS PAIN AND TEARING OF R EYE. DX R CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| 39 YO F CERVICAL STRAIN DEVELOPED NECK PAIN WHILE FLIPPING HEAD BACK AND FORTH WHILE USING HAIR DRYER* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| C/O SUDDEN ONSET OF UPPER BACK PAIN WHILE BLOW DRYING HER HAIR >>MUSCLE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| 77 Y/O TRIPPED & FELL OVER HAIRDRYER AT HOME LANDED ON WRIST. DX-FX LEFT DISTAL RADIUS/ULNA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| BELIEVES HAIR DRYER WAS WET WHEN SHE PLUGGED IT IN AND WAS SHOCKED. DX MILD ELECTRICAL SHOCK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT WAS BENT TO BLOW DRY HAIR AND HAD PX. DX: LUMBAR STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2008 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| NECK STR. PT WAS BLOW DRYING HAIR VIGOROUSLY AND STRAINED NECK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2008 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| 90 YOF WAS GETTING HAIR DONE, SITTING UNDERNEATH HAIR DRYER WHEN SHE BE CAME UNRESPONSIVE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| BACK INJURY FROM BLOW DRYING HER HAIR. DX-ACUTE LUMBAR STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT SPRAINED BACK BENDING DOWN TO UNPLUG HAIR DRYER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| 29 YO FEMALE BURNED LOWER LEG ON HAIR DRYER SECOND DEGREE BURNS - LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PATIENT STEPPED ON A DOME HAIR DRYER AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT FOOT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2008 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair dryers, Counters or countertops |
| 14 MOM WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH HAIRDRYER THAT FELL OFF COUNTER FACIAL LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2008 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PATIENT FELT NECK SNAP WHILE HE WAS DRYING HIS HAIR. DX-CERVICAL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers, Chairs |
| SUDDENLY DEVELOPED DIZZINESS&LIGHTHEADNESS WHILE SITTING ON A CHAIR WIT H HEAD UNDER THE DRYER @ HAIR SALON THEN PASSED OUT>>SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| NASAL FX/22YOF WAS BLOW DRYING HAIR THIS AM AND 3YO SON RAN UP UNDER HE R AND FACE COLLIDED WITH CHILDS HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT WAS BLOW DRYING HER HAIR AND GOT FINGER CAUGHT IN HAIR PULLED FINGER BACK STRAINED FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT STATES UPPER BACK PAIN WHILE USING BLOW HAIR DRYER AT HOME UPPER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| TODAY WHILE USING AN ELECTRICK HAIR DRYER, FELT LIKE A SHOCK IN THE ARM THEN COLLAPSED&VOMITTED>> RULE OUT SEIZURES DISORDER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 1 months | 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 dryers |
| DAD ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED A HAIR DRYER ON BABY'S HEAD- NO LOC DX; CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 93 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| VASO-VAGAL SYNCOPE/93YOF AT SENIOR LIVING HOME, WHILE SITTING UNDER HAI R DRYER THIS AM, HAD SYNCOPAL EPISODE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2008 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Electric Shock |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| ELECTRIC SHOCK-SUS AN ELECTRIC SHOCK WHILE USING A HAIR DRYER. NO OTHER INFO. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/06/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| DX: 1ST DEGREE THERMAL BURN TO SCALP W/ FLAT IRON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair dryers, Extension cords |
| WHILE BLOW DRYING DAUGHTERS HAIR, PT RECEIVED BURN TO HAND,WAS HOLDING EXTENSION CORD AND IT CAUGHT FIRE, NO F.D. ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| R EYEBROW LAC. A HAIR DRYER WHEN A PIECE OF THE DRYER BROKE OFF, HIT HE R IN THE EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT PAIN IN EYE AFTER BLOW DRYING HAIR POSSIBLE FB DX// LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT WAS BLOWDRYING HAIR WITH ARM ABOVE HEAD AND DEVELOPED NUMBNESS IN HA ND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| WHILE MOME STRAIGHTENING/BLOWING HER HAIR, LOOKED INTHE MIRROR, SAW BRI GHT COLORS THEN PASSED OUT>> SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| TWISTED TRIPPED OVER A HAIR DRYER SPRAIN LEFT ANKLE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Hair dryers |
| PT AT HOME USING HAIR DRYER, STRAINED L SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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