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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,325
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
Date: 12/13/2004 | 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: Puncture |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT STUCK HAIRPIN IN EAR & STARTED BLEEDING. DX: TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/05/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL TRAUMA-C/O RT EAR BLEEDING AFTER PT'S MOTHER TR IED TO CLEAN EAR WITH A BOBBY PIN. NO LOSS OF HEARING. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/28/2004 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
EARDRUM INJURY-STUCK A BOBBY PIN IN EAR-@ HOME |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/17/2004 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PATIENT WAS CLEANING HIS EAR WITH A BOBBY PIN. INJURED EAR DRUM. DX-PERFORATED EAR DRUM. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/15/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
STUCK HAIR BOW IN EAR AT SCHOOL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/02/2004 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT DX PERFORATED RT TM ( RT EAR) - SS/P STUCK A HAIR PIN TO RT EAR AND WAS BLEEDING. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/01/2004 | 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: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT POKED A BOBBY PIN IN EAR TO CLEAN IT OUT. DX: INJURY TO EAR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/08/2004 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
CONTUSION TO EAR STUCK HAIRPIN IN R EAR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/07/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
MOM STUCK A HAIRPIN IN PT'S EAR WHEN TRYING TO CLEAN OUT EAR. DX: CERUMEN IMPACTION. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 10/02/2004 | 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: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT C/O RT EAR PAIN TODAY, PT PTU A BOBBY PIN IN EAR DX OTITIS MEDIA |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/30/2004 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PATIENT STUCK A BOBBY PIN IN HIS HIS LEFT EAR. DX-ABRASION LEFT EXTERNAL EAR CANAL. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/27/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
CHILD STUCK A BOBBY PIN IN EAR AND HAS PAIN. NEEDS PIN REMOVED. D: FORE IGN BODY, EAR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/20/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT STUCK A HAIR CLIP INTO EAR. DX: EAR TRAUMA (RIGHT) |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/04/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT PLACED HAIR BEADS IN EACH EAR. DX: FOREIGN BODY EAR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/03/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT C/O PAIN TO RT EAR DUE TO PUTTING HAIRPIN IN THE EAR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/01/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT HAD BOBBY PIN PLACED IN LT EAR BY OLDER SIBLING -- MOM NOTED BLOOD F ROM EAR CANAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/22/2004 | Age: 19 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT. WAS PLAYING NEAR HAIRPINS, PT. BEGAN TO CRY AND HOLD EAR. DX. FB E AR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/16/2004 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
STUCK BOBBY PIN IN EAR OTITIS EXTERNA |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/14/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
STUCK BOBBY PIN INTO EAR DX. EAR CANAL LAC |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/02/2004 | Age: 38 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: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT SCRAPED EAR WITH HAIRPIN WHILE TRYING TO GET BUG OUT OF EAR, LACERAT ION TO EAR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/15/2004 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT TRIED TO CLEAN EAR WITH BOBBYPIN, INJURED EAR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/14/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT USING BOBBIE PIN TO CLEAN EAR (PT PUSHED TO FAR IN EAR WHEN CHILD JU MPED ON BED SHE WAS SITTING ON. DX: PERFORATED L TYMPANIC MEMBRANE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/08/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
USED HAIR PIN TO CLEAN EAR LAC EAR CANAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/02/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PATIENT PUT PURPLE HAIR BEAD IN EAR AT HOME; FB REMOVED |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/23/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
DAD USED BOBBY PIN TO REMOVE EAR WAX ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA & OTITIS EXTERNA |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/20/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PUNCTURED EAR WITH BOBBY PIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/04/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT STUCK A BOBBY PIN IN EAR - BLEEDING. D: INJURY TO RIGHT EAR CANAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/02/2004 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
STUCK HAIR PIN INTO EAR DX. EAR CANAL ABR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/22/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT SUST INJURY TO EAR FROM HAIR PIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/09/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
BOY AT SCHOOL PUT HAIR BEAD IN PATIENT'S EAR; FB REMOVED |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/07/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT'S MOTHER TRIED TO REMOVE EAR WAX FROM RIGHT EAR WITH A BOBBY PIN AND NOTICED BLOOD FROM EAR CHILD SCREAMING- LACERATION EARDRUM |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/29/2004 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
CONTUSED EAR WHEN SCRATCHED WITH BOBBY PIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/15/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PERFORATED RT TM-@ HOME-PT STUCK A BOBBY PIN IN EAR |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/11/2004 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PATIENT PRESENTS WITH DULL ACHING PAIN IN RIGHT EAR - DECREASED HEARING - ONSET AFTER USING HAIRPIN TO "DIG" IN EAR CANAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/25/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT USED EAR DROPS AND DUG IN EAR WITH BOBBY PIN, DEV PAIN, DX CERUMEN I MPACTION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/09/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
EAR LAC-CUT ON METAL HAIR CLIP |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/07/2004 | Age: 21 months | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT POKED BOBBY PIN INTO RT EAR YEST C/O PN, CONTUSION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/26/2004 | Age: 17 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
POKED EAR W/ BOBBY PIN DX TRAMA EAR CANAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/24/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT C/O FOREIGN BODY SENSAION S/P PATIENT USED A HAIR PIN IN EAR. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/18/2004 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
14 Y.O. B MALE W/LAC TO EAR. PT WAS CLEANING OUT HIS EAR W/A BOBBY PIN & INJ SELF @ HOME. E9208 |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/16/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT PULLED HAIR CLIP OUT OF HAIR CUTTING HER RT EAR, LACERATION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/13/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT WITH HAIR PIN STUCK INTO LT EAR EARLIER TODAY NOW WITH BLEEDING, CO NTUSION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/05/2004 | Age: 2 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: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PER FATHER CHILD HAS A HAIR BEAD IN EAR DX WHEN CHILD SNEEZED IT CAME OUT |
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
Date: 02/04/2004 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
32 Y.O. W FEMALE W/EAR CONTUSION. PT WAS CLEANING HER EAR OUT W/A BOBBY PIN & STUCK IT TOO FAR @ HOME. E9208 |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/03/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT STUCK BOBBY PIN INTO RT EAR, ABRASION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/01/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
7 Y.O. B FEMALE W/FB REMOVAL TO EAR. PT STS A HAIR BEAD GOT STUCK IN HE R EAR @ HOME. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/29/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
STUCK BOBBY PIN INEAR AND ABRASED EAR CANAL |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/13/2004 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Puncture |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PUNCTURED EAR WITH BOBBY PIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/10/2004 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
PT BURNED EAR W/CURLING IRON 3 DAYS AGO. DX: L EAR BURN. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/06/2004 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
OTITIS EXTERNA-PAIN SINCE SHE CLEANED HER EAR W/ A BOBBY PIN-@ HOME |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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