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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 459
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/17/2006 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CHI, FELL WHEN BRUSHING HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2006 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT C/O HEADACHE FROM BRUSHING HAIR DX:TENSION HEADACHE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CHI, FELL TO FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PUNCTURE HEAD, PT SUST INJURY W/A COMB AT HOME, C/O BLEEDING, PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2006 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| CHILD UPSET WHILE MOTHER BRUSHING HAIR, PASSED OUT CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2006 | Age: 2 months | 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 |
| HIT IN HTE HEAD WITH A HAIR BRUSH NORMAL EXAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN HEAD WITH WOODEN BRUSH BY BROTHER, DX; HEAD CONTUSION/ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2006 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | 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, Bathtubs or showers |
| PER MOM,PT ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED ONTO CONCRETE ON 4/16/06, NO LOC TODAY PUT COMB IN MOUTH DURING BATH,NOW CRIES,WON'T EAT DX: HEAD TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2006 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 48 YO COMBING HAIR W/COMB INJURED SCALP LAC SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/10/2006 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SCALP LACERATION HIT WITH HAIR BRUSH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2006 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| HIT IN HEAD WITH HAIR BRUSH; LACERATION TO SCAPL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/12/2006 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| WOUND TO HEAD, PICKING AT IT & HAIR BRUSH KEPT CATCHING IT DX: SCALP A BSCESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2006 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| HEAD CONTUSION, VIA EMS, MOTHER STS PT STRUCK W/A HAIRBRUSH IN THE SCHOOL, C/O PAIN, SWELLING, TENDERNESS, NO DIZZINESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2006 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT INJURED SCALP WHILE COMBING HAIR X4 DAYS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2006 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTLY STRUCK IN THE HEAD WITH A BRUSH.DX HEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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