Accidents - BBs or pellets - 16-25 years old - Years 1997-2010 - Eyeball

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,214
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1997:	21
Year 1998:	291
Year 2000:	85
Year 2001:	16
Year 2002:	196
Year 2003:	153
Year 2004:	189
Year 2005:	59
Year 2006:	189
Year 2007:	303
Year 2008:	294
Year 2009:	155
Year 2010:	255

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 08/24/2010	Age: 16 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
HIT IN EYE WITH BB PELLET CORNEAL ABRASION 16 YO M#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/04/2010	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: BBs or pellets
HIT IN EYE WITH BB PELLET FROM 25 TO 30 FEET, SINGLE PUMP-DX-EYE INJURY 24 YO M#
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2010	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
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
19 YO M HIT ON CHEST WITH A SOFT PLASTIC BB FROM AIR BB GUN FIRED BY GI RLFRIEND 4 DAYS AGO. BB BOUNCED OFF CHEST TO EYE. EYE PAIN. DX:IRITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/11/2010	Age: 20 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
20YOM WAS SHOT IN EYE WITH *** DX: HYPHEMA RT EYE DX: HYPHEMA RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2009	Age: 19 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
BLUNT TRAUMA TO EYE, WAS HAVING AN *** GUN FIGHT WITH FRIEND, AND WAS H IT WITH PLASTIC BB IN EYE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/15/2009	Age: 24 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
24 YOM WAS SHOT IN RIGHT EYE WITH PELLET GUN CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2009	Age: 25 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, Drinking straws
WAS HIT IN THE EYE BY A BB THAT WAS SHOT THRU A STRAW EYE BLUNT TRAUM A
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2008	Age: 21 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: BBs or pellets
DX TRAUMATIC IRITIS/CORNEAL ABRASION: YTDY, WAS SHOT W A PLASTIC PELLET TO R EYE. STILL HAV'G BLURRED VISION, WATERY, PHOTO PHOBIA, REDNESS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/10/2008	Age: 17 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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
EYE INJURY FROM BEING HIT IN RIGHT EYE WITH BB. DX-ACUTE BLUNT TRAUMA EYE,CORNEAL ABRASION, PHOTO PHOBIA, EYE PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2008	Age: 20 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: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT PLAYING SHOT IN THE RIGHT EYE ACCIDENTLY IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH A PLA STIC BB FROM AN AIR PISTOL ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2008	Age: 19 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT WAS PLAYING WITH NEPHEW AND WAS SHOT WITH PLASTIC PELLET IN EYE DX: CORNEAL AB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/08/2008	Age: 16 years	Sex: Female	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
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WITH BB GUN/EYE CT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2008	Age: 19 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
PT WAS ACCIDENRLY SHOT IN THE LEFT EYE WITH AN "***" PELLET GUN EYE INJ URY
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/27/2008	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: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
19 YO BB GSW TO EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2008	Age: 18 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
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WITH BB GUN/GSW EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/31/2007	Age: 17 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
HIT IN R EYE W/PLASTIC BB, PAIN DX; TRAUMATIC IRITIS R EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/21/2007	Age: 16 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 PLAYING AROUND AT HOME AND ACCIDENTLY SHOT IN THE LEFT EYE WITH A P ELLET GUN ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2007	Age: 17 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
PT WAS SHOT IN EYE WITH A PLASTIC BB , DX: LEFT EYE CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/17/2007	Age: 16 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, Ceilings and walls
PATIENT HIT IN EYE BY PLASTIC BB THAT BOUNCED OFF A WALL AND HIT PT IN EYE. DX: BLUNT TRAUMA TO RT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2007	Age: 19 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
PT WAS ACCIDENTLY SHOT IN RT EYE WITH BB GUN BY FRIEND DX: RT EYE INJ WITH HYPHEMA
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 01/04/2007	Age: 22 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT WAS SHOT IN EYE WHILE PLAYING WITH *** GUNDX: CORNEAL AB DX: CORNEAL AB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/27/2006	Age: 17 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
PATIENT AND FRIEND "GOOFING" AROUND WITH BB GUN, DIDN'T KNOW BB IN GUN, FRIEND SHOT PT IN EYE FROM 3 FT, LOSS OF VISION; TRAUMATIC IRITIS, ABR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/25/2006	Age: 16 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
SHOT IN EYE WITH BB 3 DAYS AGO, HAS EYE PAIN. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/07/2006	Age: 17 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
SHOT IN EYE W/BB GUN. DX GSW EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2006	Age: 16 years	Sex: Female	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
WAS SHOT IN EYE WITH BB GUB DX: EYE INJ
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/27/2006	Age: 16 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
GSW EYE-HIT IN EYE W/PELLETT FROM AIR GUN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/22/2006	Age: 18 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
PATIENT SHOT IN EYE FROM 4 FT WITH PELLET GUN, THEN HAD DECREASED VISIO N; TRAUMATIC HYPHEMA, CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WITH BB GUN/FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/04/2006	Age: 20 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
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 LT EYE WITH BB GUN BY LITTLE COUSIN PUNCTURE INJ LT ORBIT LEGALLY BLIND BY HISTORY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/07/2006	Age: 17 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
TARGET SHOOTING FOREIGN BODY WAS BB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2005	Age: 19 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 WITH PLASTIC PELLET DX EYE INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2004	Age: 22 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
22 YO SHOT IN EYE BY BB GUN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/12/2004	Age: 21 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
SHOT IN LEFT EYE WITH BB FB LEFT EYE-SENT TO OPTHALMOLOGY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/01/2004	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
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
PT WAS AT HOME WHEN A BB PELET FIRED FROM A GUN HIT HIS EYE CAUSING A HYPOMA
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 06/29/2004	Age: 19 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT ACCIDENTLY SHOT IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH AN AIR SOFT BB GUN ABRASION TO EYE BB HIT EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/02/2004	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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
PT DX GSW RT EYE PELLETS FRAGMENT - S/P GSW TO RT EYE,NO COOPORATION BUT ALERT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/17/2003	Age: 20 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
BB GUN, COCKING TYPE SHOT TO LT. EYE 20 FT. AWAY DX: TRAUMATIC LOSS OF VISION LT. EYE, R/O DISLODGED LENS
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 11/16/2003	Age: 16 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
BB GUN SHOT TO EYE;FB EYE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/15/2003	Age: 16 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 WAS SHOOTING AT A TARGET AND BB RICCOCHETED OFF AND HIT HIM IN THE EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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: 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: 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: 11/21/2001	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2000	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: Other
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/05/2000	Age: 18 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 12/21/1998	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: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 10/25/1998	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: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/02/1998	Age: 16 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: Other
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/09/1998	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: Laceration
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/26/1997	Age: 22 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: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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