ouch burns are the worst thing - I always end up burning the joints on my fingers with my straighteners. Me and heated appliances were never designed to work well together.
with the new, ceramic straighteners I got, the injuries are down - I have a scar on my ear from where I was straightening my hair one morning and ended up straightening my ear (this was when I had these awful strighteners the size of a bloody iron). I wasn't completely awake, and I guess my mind wasn't completely with it.