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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 573
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PT CUT FACE ON A TOY *** GUN AT HOME DX: LACERATION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PT PLAYING W/PLASTIC *** GUN AND CUT THUMB ON PLASTIC; THUMB LACERATION N |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| FACIAL LAC/9YOM AT HOME PLAYING TUG-OF-WAR WITH *** GUN & IT CAME BACKA ND LAC. FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles, Ceilings and walls |
| 10 YOM STRUCK RIGHT EYE BY *** TIPPED ARROW SUSTAINING CORNEAL ABRASION , PT PLAYING WITH TOY DART WITH ***, DART BOUNCED OFF WALL, HIT PT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/02/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PATIENT HIT IN EYE WIT *** GUN 2 DAYS AGO, REDNESS TO SCLERA OF EYE; CO RNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2008 | 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: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| DX SCALP LAC: BIB MOM FOR SCALP LAC. PT'S YOUNGER BRO THREW A ***GUN AT PT AND HIT HIM IN THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| FELL RUNNING WITH TOY *** GUN;DX FRACTURED LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| 7 Y/O M INJURED L EYE WHEN HIT BY DART FROM TOY DART GUN AT HOME. DX; L CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PT WITH LAC TO FACE, WAS HIT WITH A *** GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN EYE, BY FRIEND, WITH TOY GUN, AT FRIEND'S HOUSE, BLURRY VISION, & PAIN. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PT HIT IN ELBOW W/TOY *** GUN WHILE PLAYING AT HOME, NOW W/SWELLING AND PAIN TO ELBOW AND FOREARM; EPICONDYLE FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/03/2008 | Age: 11 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: Toy guns with projectiles |
| ABRASION CORNEA - 11 YO MALE SHOT HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH A *** GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2008 | 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PLAYING ?HERT GUN WITH A FRIEND WHO SHOT A BALL FROM 5-6FEET DISTANCE H ITTING EYE >> CORNEAL ABRS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/12/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PATIENT SHOT IN EYE WITH *** DART LAST NIGHT, EYE BURNING, ITCHING, PAI N, REDNESS; EYE INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PATIENT WAS USING A *** GUN, CAUGHT HIS SKIN, LACERATING HIS LEFT FOREA RM WITH BLEEDING. DX-LEFT ARM LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2008 | 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: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles, Eyeglasses |
| 9 YO M LACERATION TO FOREHEAD HAD GLASSES ON WAS HIT WITH *** GUN WHEN SISTER WAS SWINGING GUN* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Toy guns with projectiles |
| PLAYING WITH *** GUNS AND WAS SHOT IN THE EYE DX CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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