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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 537
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 07/25/2010 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| 22YOF BLOWING UP A BALLON AT HOME WHEN IT POPPED A PIECE WENT INTO EYE SUSTAINED A CORNEAL ABRASION TO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2010 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Balloons |
| 20YOM CONJUNCTIVITIS L EYE BALLOON BURST IN FACE 2 DAYS AGO* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2009 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| EYE TRAUMA. PT WAS HIT WITH A WATER BALLOON AT CAMP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2008 | Age: 24 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: Balloons |
| PRESENTS WITH EYE FOREING BODY SENSATION THAT DEVELOPED WHILE FOOLING A ROUND HAVING A WATER BALLOON FIGHT>> FOREING BODY REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| 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: 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 |
| Date: 08/31/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| DX LEFT EYE CONTUSION: HIT IN EYE WITH WATER BALLON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| LEFT CORNEAL ABRASION.PT WAS STRUCK IN EYE WITH A WATER BALLOON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| LT CORNEAL AB-HIT IN EYE W/A WATER BALLOON-FORCING HER HAIR & HAIRGEL INTO HER EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT. WAS BLOWING UP A BALLOON, TRYING TO SEE WHO COULD MAKE THE BIGGEST, WHEN IT BLEW UP IN HIS FACE. HAZY VISION. DX: EYE TRAUMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| 23 YOM BALLOON POPPED IN FACE PIECE OF BALLOON STRUCK EYE CONTUSION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2001 | 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: Balloons |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/1998 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Balloons |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/1997 | 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: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Balloons |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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