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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 563
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/22/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| DIRECT BLOW TO EYE ; PT WAS HIT IN EYE WITH BB AN HOUR AGO. D: HYPHEM A / FOREIGN BODY SCLERAE AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/03/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | 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 WITH RUBBER PELLET SHOT RUBBER PELLET GUN RICHOCHETED OFF WALL INTO EYE NO EYE PROTECTION, ACUTE R EYE INJURY SCLERA ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2002 | Age: 17 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| ON FRIDAY, PATIENT LOOKING AT BB GUN WHEN IT ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARED. SE EN IN OPTHO CLINIC & TOLD TO COME TO ER. D:BB IN EYE. ADMIT. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/01/2002 | Age: 9 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: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| B.B PELLET RICOCHETED OFF A FENCE AND HIT CHILD IN THE EYE DX B.B PELLE T IN L ORBIT OF EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/25/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| SHOT IN LEFT EYE WITH BB GUN. DX: PUNCTURE WOUND, LEFT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2002 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| 3 YO -BM - MOTHER STATES CHILD SHOT IN R EYE WITH BB GUN TONIGHT- ENTRY ARE NOTED TO BE T INNER CANTHUS - DX: INJURED GLOBE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 04/06/2002 | Age: 15 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 |
| SHOT IN EYE, PLASTIC PELLET, SPRING OPERATED PELLET GUN EYE HYPHEMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/01/2002 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Bottles or jars |
| STANDING BESIDE NEPHEW WHO SHOT A BB GUN AT DISTANCE OF 30 FT, HIT BOTT LE AND RICHOCHED BACK STRIKING EYE, DECREASED VISION. BL TRAUMA/ABR OD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 14 Y/O M INJURED L EYE WHEN SHOT WITH BB FROM BB GUN. DX; PENETRATING TRAUMA L EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/21/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| SHOT IN EYE WITH BB FB RT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 03/08/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN LEFT EYE WITH A BB GUN. DX-BLUNT INJURY EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2002 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 14YOWM SHOT HIMSELF IN EYE WITH BB PELLET DX: ACUTE BLUNT TRAUMA L IRIS RUPTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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