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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 260
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/07/2009 | Age: 7 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 |
| 7YO HISP MALE AT HOME HIT IN HEAD WITH BRUSH THAT BROTHER THREW DX SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/20/2009 | Age: 91 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 SUS LAC TO HEAD WHILE COMBING HIS HAIR WITH A COMB% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2009 | Age: 12 years | 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 |
| PT HIT IN HEAD W/A CONE OR COMB, NOW W/CONTUSION TO FOREHEAD, NO LOC; H EAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2009 | Age: 9 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 |
| SOMEONE THREW A HAIR BRUSH & IT HIT BACK OF HEAD DX SCALP LAC * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2009 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| HIT WITH HAIR BRUSH;DX LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2009 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| BRUSHING HAIR UPSIDE DOWN THEN STOOD UP QUICKLY AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN HEAD--SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/01/2009 | Age: 2 years | 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 |
| TICK REMOVAL: TICK IN HER HEAD, MOTHER FOUND WHILE COMBING HER HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/03/2009 | Age: 1 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT DX SCALP ABRASION - S/P DUE TO COMBING BY MATERNAL AUNT DURING BATHING TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/16/2009 | Age: 44 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: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| C/O FRONTAL SCALP PAIN UPON COMBING HER HAIR, +LESION IN AREA >>CUTENOUS HORN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2009 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Combs or hairbrushes |
| PT WAS SCRATCHED IN HEAD BY BROKEN BRUSH 4 DAYS AGO. DX: SCALP ABSCESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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