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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,650
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/19/2009 | 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: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| DX L EYE INJ/BB GUN DISCHARGE: 2YOF "HIT IN EYE W PELLET GUN; PT W EYE CLOSED. BRO SHOT A PUMP BB GUN, HIT JUST BELOW L EYE U BB RECOVERED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT WITH BB STUCK IN L EAR. DX BB LEFT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2009 | 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT HAD A PELLET IN RIGHT EAR, FOREIGN BODY REMOVED FROM RIGHT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| 3 YOM HAD A BB STUCK IN LEFT EAR AT HOME. DX-FOREIGN BODY EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/19/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PATIENT PUT BB IN EAR AND MOM CAN'T GET OUT. DX; FOREIGN BODY TO RIGH T EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| FB IN EARS/3YOM AT HOME PUT PLASTIC WHITE BB'S IN EARS. PARENTS UNABLE TO GET THEM OUT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2009 | Age: 5 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: BBs or pellets |
| 5YOM PUT A BB IN RIGHT EAR FB EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT WAS AT HOME, PUT A BB UP NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT HAS A BB STUCK IN EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT HIT IN EYE W/PLASTIC BB YEST, NOW C/O EYE PAIN AND PHOTOPHOBIA; CORN EAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| BROTHER PUT BB PELLET IN LEFT EAR FOREIGN BODY EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| 3 YO M FOREIGN BODY IN EAR CHILD PUT BB IN EAR* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| SHOT IN ARM WITH BB GUN FOREIGN BODY FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT PUT A BB UP RIGHT NOSTRIL FB NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PUTTING PELLET IN GUN, LEVER SNAPPED BACK AND CAUGHT FINGER. DX THUMB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| BROTHER ATTEMPTING TO SHOOT BIRD W/PELLET GUN & ACCIDENTALLY SHOT PT IN LWR LEG, NOW W/BB IN TIBIA; LEG INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT HIT IN FACE BELOW R EYE & BRIDGE OF NOSE BY BB FROM BB GUN (PUMP) FR OM 15 FEET. FX RIGHT ORBIT FLOOR, NASAL FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 07/06/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| MOM STATES CHILD PUT A PLASTIC PELLET IN EAR DX F.O.B IN RT EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| BB GSW TO HEAD WHEN FRIEND ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIM;DX GSW HEAD (LATER DIE D) |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/30/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS SHOT IN EYE WITH BB GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2009 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| MOM SAYS SEEING BB PELLETS IN MOUTH MAY HAVE SWALLOWED. DX B PELLETS INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Aspirated Object |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Jewelry |
| PATIENT HAS A BB OR A BEAD IN NOSE; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| GOT BB STUCK IN EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT MAY HAVE SWALLOWED UP TO 10 LEAD BB'S. DX: FB INGESTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| CHILD PUT PLASTIC BB IN EAR. D: FOREIGN BODY, EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT PLACED AN ULTRASONIC BB INTO RIGHT EAR TODAY C/O IT BEING LODGED IN EAR. FOREIGN BODY -EAR (PEDS) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| STUCK A BLUE BB UP HIS NOSE, NO RESPIRATORY DISTRESS >>FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| 5YO AMERICAN INDIAN FEMALE AT GRANDMA'S HOUSE & PT'S COUSIN STUCK A BB IN L EAR, DX EAR FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| 5 YOM, PATIENT PLACED PLASTIC AIR SOFT BB IN EAR, FOREIGN BODY EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| BB IN NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2009 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| RIGHT HAND INJURY FROM BB INSIDE HAND. LEFT BEFORE BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 04/05/2009 | 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: BBs or pellets |
| F'BDY EAR- BB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT WITH A BB STUCK IN NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PATIENT HIT ON SHOULDER BY BB 6 WKS AGO, MOM THOUGHT BB GLANCED OFF, NO W W/FB UNDER SKIN OF SCAPULA; FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT PUT A BB IN EAR. DX FB EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2009 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PELLET IN NOSE. DX: F/B NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| HAS A PLASTIC BB IN HIS RT NOSTRIL- NO REMOVAL ATTEMPTED DX: NASAL FB- REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2009 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS ACCID SHOT IN THE R HAND YEST BY A 12 YO FRIEND W/ A BB GUN. HAS BB LODGED IN HIS R MIDDLE FINGER. DX R MIDDLE FINGER FB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PUT A PLASTIC BB FROM AIR GUN IN LEFT EAR CANAL-GUN WAS NOT SHOT. DX F.B LEFT EAR CANAL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2009 | Age: 16 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| 16MOF SWALLOWED BB FROM BB GUN; FOREIGN BODY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| FOREIGN BODY OF BB'S IN EAR. DX FOREIGN BODY L CANAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2009 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PUT PLASTIC BB IN EAR;DX FOREIGN BODY EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2009 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT PUT GREEN PLASTIC BB'S INTO EARS. DX: BILAT EAR FB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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