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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 593
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PATIENT WAS HIT WITH PAINT BALL TO EYE. DX: CONTUSION TO LEFT EYEBALL . |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 12/22/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS HIT IN THE EYE WITH A PAINTBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2002 | Age: 17 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: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 17 YO MALE WAS HIT IN EYE WITH PAINT BALL LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| IN PAINT BALL MATCH W FRIENDS FINISHED AND TOOK OFF PROTECTIVE GEAR AND FRIEND ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIM IN THE EYE DX CORNEAL ABRAS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS STRUCK IN EYE WITH PAINT BALL FROM PAINT BALL GUN TRANSFERRED TO *** |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 09/21/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns, BBs or pellets |
| WHILE SITTING ON BENCH OUTSIDE, CAR DROVE BY & SHOT BB GUN, HIT IN LT. EYE. DX: LUNT TRAUMA LT. EYE, SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE LT. SCLERA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2002 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| CONTUSION EYE - 24 YOM STRUCK RIGHT EYE BY PAINTBALL, STATES VISION BLU RRY, PAINFUL, STATES ABLE TO SEE FROM ALL EYE FIELDS BUT BLURRY & HAZY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| RT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS SHOT IN THE EYE WITH A PAINT BALL GUN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns, Two-wheeled, powered, off-road vehicles |
| STRUCK BY PAINTBALL IN EYE WHILE RIDING DIRT BIKE/ BLUNT TRAUMA RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns, Screen doors |
| PT WAS STANDING AT SCREEN DOOR WHEN HE WAS HIT IN EYE WITH A PAINT BALL PELLET THAT CAME THROUGH SCREEN, PAINT EXPLODED ALL OVER FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns, BBs or pellets |
| BB IN R EYE 30 MINS AGO, SHOT W/BB GUN IN R EYE. DX. CORNEAL INJ FROMB B PELLET. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/18/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Nerve Damage |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| CLEANING A PAINTBALL GUN WHEN IT DISCHARGE TO EYE RUPTURING GLOBE OF EYE;TRANSFERRED TO *** |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 04/06/2002 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns, BBs or pellets |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: FIRING A PLASTIC BB (SPRING-LOADED) THAT DEFLECTE D OFF TARGET AND BOUNCED INTO LEFT EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT SHOT IN RT EYE WITH BB-GUN @2PM TODAY C/O PN WITH NAUSEA, FB/PPD WIT H PT |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/19/2002 | Age: 17 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns, BBs or pellets |
| SHOT A CO2 POWERED PELLET GUN AND PELLET BONCE OFF SOMETHING AND HIT HI M IN THE EYE DX F.B. TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| FRIEND AIMING *** HIT WALL, 6MM BB HIT WALL & BOUNCED OFF, HITTING EYE. DX; CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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