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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,370
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS OUT BIRD HUNTING YESTERDAY, WHEN PT WAS HIT IN THE L CHEEK WITH A STRAY BB. DX: FOREIGN BODY TO CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/06/2007 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT AT PRESCHOOL AND PLACED A BB UP RIGHT NOSTRIL FB NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| OUT HUNTING BLOCKING FIELD AND WAS HIT WITH PELLETS FROM A GUN PELLETS TO CHIN AND JAW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| BB PELLET HIT THIS PT'S FOREHEAD AS SOMEONE SHOT A CAR HUB CAP WITH A B B GUN AND THE PELLET BOUNCED BACK AND HIT PT IN EYEBROW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/12/2007 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PATIENT IN COURTYARD AT APARTMENT WHERE NEIGHBOR WAS SHOOTING A BB GUN, BB ACCIDENTALLY GRAZED PATIENT ON HEAD; FOREHEAD ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2007 | Age: 4 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 |
| PT WAS AT HOME, PUT A BB UP EACH NOSTRIL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2007 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| FB LEFT N ARIS.PT WAS PLAYING WITH SMALL SON IN YARD AND HE HAD A PLAY BB GUN AND PT PICKED UP CHILD AND BB WENT OFF IN NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/17/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PATIENT WAS OUT OF TOWN WITH FRIENDS, ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN CHEEK WITH B B GUN, BB FELT IN CHEEK; FB IN CHEEK, PUNCTURE WOUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PATIENT STUCK BB IN NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT SUS INJURY AFTER ACCIDENTALLY BEING SHOT WITH A BB. DX R JAW FB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| SHOT WITH BB GUN/FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2007 | Age: 3 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 |
| PT WAS AT HOME, STUCK A BB UP NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2007 | Age: 23 months | 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS PLAYING WITH BB GUN AND IT FIRED AND BB STRUCK PATIENT IN RIGHT CHEEK. DX: GUNSHOT (BB) TO RIGHT CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PUTT BB INTO NOSE FB REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT WAS DRIVING AND STRUCK IN THE FOREHEAD WITH FB , FOUND TO BE A BB DX// FOREHEAD LAC FB REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2007 | Age: 3 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 |
| PT X TODAY PLACED A PLASTIC PELLET IN NOSE. DX. FB INITIALLY IN NOSE, L IKELY SWALLOWED IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Doors |
| GRANDPA WAS OUTSIDE SHOOTING AT AN ANIMAL WHEN BB WENT THROUGH A SCREEN DOOR AND HIT PT ON EYELID INSIDE THE HOUSE. D: PENERATING INJ L EYELI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS SHOT IN CHIN WITH BB GUN BY FRIEND DX: BB IN FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2007 | Age: 3 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 |
| PT PLACE A ROUND BB IN LEFT NARES. DX FB LEFT NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2007 | Age: 17 years | 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WITH BB GUN/FB EYELID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2007 | Age: 16 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| FB BELOW R EYE/16YOM SHOT BELOW THE R EYE WITH BB GUN. SMALL LAC NOTED BELOW R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2007 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PATIENT DIAGNOSED WITH FACIAL ABRASION/INJURY FROM A PELLET OR BB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2007 | Age: 7 years | 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| SHOT IN CHEEK BY BROTHER WITH BB GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PTS COUSIN WAS SHOWING HER HOW TO SHOOT A BB GUN AND ACCIDENLY SHOT HER IN THE FACE BB RETAINED FB FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2007 | Age: 2 months | Sex: Female | 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 |
| 2MO OLD SIBLING SHOT BB IN NOSE FOREIGN BODY NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/06/2007 | Age: 18 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| DX HYPHEMA RIGHT EYE, RIGHT EYELID CONTUSION: PELLET FROM BB GUN TO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/04/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT C/O HIT IN EYE. PT WAS HIT IN EYE BY PLASTIC BB. DX ORBIT CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/03/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| SHOT WITH BB GUN/FB FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2007 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 17 YOM C/O AREA AROUND LEFT EYE PAINFUL AND SWOLLEN AFTER GETTING HIT W ITH A BB FROM A BB GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2007 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| FB NOSE-STUCK BB IN NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2007 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT PUT A PLASTIC BB IN RT NARE FOREIGN BODY IN RT NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS SHOT WITH A BB GUN BY HIS SISTER - SHE WAS MAD AT HIM AND SHIT H IM - LAC TO CHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PATIENT SHOT IN FACE WITH BB GUN AT CLOSE RANGE, BB LODGED IN CHEEK, IN TENT NOT STATED; BB IN FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2007 | Age: 12 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT SUS A FOREIGN BODY IN FACE AFTER BEING SHOT BY A BB GUN. DX FOREGIN BODY, FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2007 | Age: 18 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: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| DX: GSW TO L SIDE OF FACE NEAR EAR W/ BB. BB SHOT TO FACE. GIVEN KEFLEX AND IBUPROFEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | 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 SHOT IN LEFT CHEEK WITH BB GUN, COLLECTED 4 BBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| AIR DRIVEN PELLETT EMBEDDED IN CHEEK, OCCURED 12/31/2006 FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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