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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 250
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/21/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT.INJ.HEAD AT HOME WHEN USING A HAIRBRUSH & HIT SELF IN HEAD. DX; LAC. SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2003 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT. REPORTS HEAD BENT OVER AND PT BRUSHING HAIR WHEN PT FLIPPED HEAD, S HE BECAME DIZZY AND FELL. DX. CONT HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| DX:SCALP VERRUCA. WART ON HEAD WHICH BLEEDS WHEN HE COMBS HIS HAIR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2003 | 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: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH A "PRESSING COMB" BY EX-FRIEND, LACERATION TO H EAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS BROTHER WHO THREW A WOODEN HAIR BRUSH AT H IS HEAD LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT SLEEPY MORE THAN USUAL CC/O RT SIDE OF HEAD PN TOLD MOM HE WAS STRUC K ON HEAD WITH COMB YEST, CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2003 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CHILD KNOCKED ON BROW BY HAIRBRUSH. D: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, EYEBROW LACE RATION, SIMPLE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT SUSTAINED BURN TO SCALP FROM HOT COMB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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