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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 390
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/23/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT HAD BALLOON BREAK IN FACE CAUSING ABRASION TO R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Balloons |
| FB INGESTION-INHALED SMALL PIECE OF BALLOON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT SLIPPED WHILE PLAYING A GAME W/WATER BALLOONS. DX: R THIRD TOE CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2007 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Balloons |
| WAS HIT IN EYE WITH A BALLOON FROM A LAUNCHER AND SUSTAINED FRACTURE TO ORBIT OF EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 06/16/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Balloons |
| 23 YOF WAS PLAYING WITH A BALLOON TONIGHT AND INJURED HER LEFT THUMB AV ULSING PART OF THE NAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| HIT ON RIGHT LOWER QUADRANT OF ABDOMEN BY WATER BALLOON DX: BLUNT TRAUMA TO ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Balloons |
| TWISTED KNEE WHILE RUNNING IN A WATER BALLOON FIGHT LEFT KNEE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2007 | Age: 21 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: Fracture |
| Product: Balloons, Doorsills or frames |
| PT HAVING WATER BALLOON FIGHT,HIT L HAND AGAINST DOOR FRAME DX L MIDDLE METACARPAL FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2007 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT STATES WAS BLOWING UP BALLOONS A FEW DAYS AGO AND ONE POPPED IN FACE HAS HAD INCREASED PAIN IN EYE, DX: ACUTE RIGHT EYE CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/10/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| 21 YO FEMALE WAS BLOWING UP BALLOON AND IT POPPED AND FLEW IN EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2007 | Age: 25 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: Balloons |
| PT STS INFLATING BALLOON MONDAY,BALLOON BURST,PT L EYE NOW HAS PAIN FOREIGN BODY SENSATION, DX EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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