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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 381
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/29/2004 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT FELL WHILE HAVING SEIZURE & CURLING IRON BURNED THIGH. DX: BURN, SEIZURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2004 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURNED WHEN PULLED DOWN CURLING IRON DX. THIGH BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT BURNED LEG WITH CURLING IRON. DX: 2ND DEGREE BURN TO LEFT THIG H |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2004 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURN TO L LEG WITH CURLING IRON LAST PM DX 1ST DEGREE BURN L THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2004 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| USING CURLING IRON ON HAIR AT HOME, BUMPED LEG; BURN TO LEFT THIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2004 | Age: 8 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CURLING IRON BURN TO R THIGH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT C/O BURN TO LEGS. PT'S LEGS WERE BURNED BY HOT CURLING IRON. DX BURN 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/01/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT SAT ON CURLING IRON AT HOME. DX: BURN RT UPPER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2004 | Age: 4 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Counters or countertops |
| BURNED UPPER LEG WHEN SAT ON COUNTER WHEN HOT CURLING IRON ON IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT DROPPED HOT CURLING IRON ON THIGH 5 DAYS AGO AND SUSTAINED BURN. NOW WORSE. D: CELLULITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/18/2004 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Doors |
| CURLING IRON FELL ON PATIENT'S THIGH AT HOME 3 DAYS AGO, ALSO SHUT FING ER IN DOOR TODAY; 1/3% 3RD DEGREE, 1% 2ND DEGRE BURN, FINGER CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins, Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches |
| MOM WAS FIXING SIBLINGS HAIR WHEN PT JUMPED ON THE SOFA AND LANDED ON H IT CURLING IRON. D: 2ND DEGREE BURN TO BOTH THIGHS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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