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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 740
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2008 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SIBLING STUCK A PIECE OF COMB IN PTS EAR. DX ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2008 | Age: 20 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 |
| PT WAS CLEANING HER EARS WITH THE END OF A COMB LAST NIGHT AND DEVELOPE D PAIN OTITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/20/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| 55 YOF C/O LEFT EAR ITCHING THIS MORNING, USED END OF A COMB TO SCRATCH AND PERFORATED THE TYMPANIC MEMBRANE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2008 | 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: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT PLAYING WITH A HAIR COMB LAST EVENING AND FELL SUSTAINED AN EAR LACE RATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SON STUCK A COMB IN PTS EAR, C/O OF PAIN, BLEEDING OF EAR CANAL, CONTUS ION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2008 | Age: 16 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 |
| PT STABBED SELF IN EAR WITH RAT-TAILED COMB-EAR PAIN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/09/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| TOP OF COMB ACCIDENTLY POKED EAR RUPTURE RIGHT EAR TYMPANUM TRAUMATIC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | 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 PUT PIECE OF COMB IN RT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| EAR INJURY FROM ACCIDENTALLY STICKING COMB IN RIGHT EAR. DX-RIGHT TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PURFORATION, RIGHT EAR CANAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| MOM PUT A COMB IN PTS EAR TO REMOVE SOMETHING. DX PERFORATED EAR DRUM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | Age: 11 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ABRASION TO LEFT EAR CANAL - WHILE SCRATCHING HER EAR SHE SLIPPED COMB INTO EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| YOUNGER BROTHER PUT A COMB IN PTS EAR. NOW BLEEDING. DX FB EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| ACCIDENTALLY STABBED SELF IN LEFT EAR WITH SHARP END OF COMB, C/O EAR PAIN. DX-TRAUMATION PERFORMATION TYMPANIC MEMBRANE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT PASSED OUT WHILE HAVING HER HAIR BRUSHED INJURED EAR DX// RIGHT EAR LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| SHE WAS BUMPED A RAT TAIL COMB WENT INTO EAR ACCIDENTLY TRAUMA RUPTURE RIGHT EAR TYMPANUM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2008 | Age: 62 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: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS USING COMB TO SCRATCH EAR, ACCIDENTALLY POKED SELF IN EAR, LACER ATION TO EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| STUCK A HAIR PICK IN LEFT EAR PUNCTURE TYMPANIC MEMBRANE * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2008 | Age: 7 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 POKED IN EAR WITH A COMB, EAR PAIN; OTALGIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2008 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| USING COMB TO SCRATCH INSIDE OF EAR PUNTURE EAR DRUM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Ceilings and walls |
| PT DX RT PERFORATED TM - S/P PT C/O EARACHE YESTERDAY AFTER SCRATCHING EAR WITH POINTY COMB AND PT RAN INTO A WALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2008 | 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| STUCK COMB IN EAR. DX ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| MOM FOUND PTS EAR BLEEDING WHILE COMBING HAIR, PT PICKED UP FROM DAYCAR E WITH CONTUSION TO EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2008 | 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: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| END OF COMB WAS ACCIDENTALLY PUSHED INTO EAR BY BROTHER, DX TRAUMATIC R UPTURE EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2008 | Age: 17 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PLACED A PLASTIC COMB INTO EAR TODAY, SMALL AMOUNT OF BLEEDING NOTICED >> ABRS/EAR TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/04/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| STUCK END OF COMB INTO EAR/TM PERFORATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2008 | 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PATIENT STUCK TOOTH OF COMB IN EAR CANAL; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 34 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: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT POKED TIP OF COMB IN EAR, DX EAR TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2008 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT SCRATCHED EAR WITH COMB, FELT PAIN, SAW BLOOD, DX TYMPANIC RUPTURE T O EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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