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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 495
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURN TO R EYE WITH CURLING IRON DX: R CORNEA BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| CURLING IRON HIT TO THE FACE, HIT IN THE EYE. DX. CORNEAL ABRA R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT INJURED HER EYE, WHEN SHE STRUCK IT WITH A BARRETTE WHILE SWINGING H ER HAIR, RESULTING IN A SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT BURNED RIGHT EYE WITH CURLING IRON LAST NIGHT. D: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT BURNED IN RT EYE WITH CURLING IRON @10PM TONIGHT, CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| RT. EYE INJURY- PT. WAS CURLING HAIR WITH A CURLING IRON, IT FELL & HIT PT. IN RT. EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 6 Y.O. B FEMALE W/CORNEAL ABRASION. PT WAS STRUCK IN THE EYE W/A HAIR B ARRETTE. E9179 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2002 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT HIT ON EYE WITH CURLING IRON AT HOME; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PAIN TO EYE HIT WITH HOT CURLING IRON DX: BURN TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| BURN EYE ON CURLING IRON CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: STRUCK SELF IN EYE WITH HAIR BARRETTE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/20/2002 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| SISTER WAS SWINGING AROUND AND BUMPED INTO PT' HER BARRETTE HIT HIM INL T EYE,CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2002 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| POKED EYE W/CURLING IRON THIS PM. PAIN, REDNESS, NO BLURRED VISION DX: 3MM CORNEAL ABRASION/BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2002 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT POKED IN EYE WITH PLASTIC BARRETTE AT DAYCARE; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PATIENT TOUCHED EYE WITH HOT CURLING IRON; CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| 13 YOF C/O BURN TO RT. EYE WITH CURLING IRON. DX. RT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2002 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Hair curlers, curling irons, clips & hairpins |
| PT WAS SCRATCHED IN THE EYE WITH A BARRETTE WHILE SLEEPING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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