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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 956
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/27/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 8YOF ACCIDENTLY SHOT IN THE LEFT HAND WITH AN AIR PUMP BB GUN BY COUSI N IN RIGHT HAND BB RETAINED FB HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/20/2009 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| SHOT W/PELLET GUN "THIS AM, SHOT PALM OF LT HAND W/PELLET GUN" STATES P T. DX: FB LT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2009 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| GSW TO HAND-54 Y/O F-SON IN LAW ACCIDENTLY SHOT PT IN THE HAND W/ BB GU N-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2009 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 15 Y O M METAL BB SHOT IN HAND (NO INFO GIVEN PERTAINING TO INCIDENT)F OREIGN BODY RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT ACCIDENTLY SHOT WITH A BB GUN BY FRIEND BB RETAINED IN RIGHT HAND FB HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2009 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| HAND INJURY FROM BB IN HAND. DX-FOREIGN BODY IN LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2009 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT PLAYING AROUND WITH A BB GUN AND ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SELF IN HAND. DX FB HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2009 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Basketball |
| BB L PALM/15YOM WAS PLAYING BASKETBALL, PUT HAND UP AGAINST BB GUN AND GOT SHOT IN PALM WITH BB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| LEFT HAND INJURY - ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SELF WITH BB GUN. D: FOREIGN BOD Y LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2009 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BB IN HAND, +ETOH. DX FOREIGN BODY IN HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS PLAYING WITH A BB GUN AND IT DISCHARGED AND A BBE WENT INTO HAND DX: PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2009 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 20YO WHITE FEMALE AT HOME IN BACKYARD WHEN BB GUN ACCIDENTLY SHOT DX FOREIGN BODY L HAND WITH A BB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2009 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| DX FB HAND/INF, HAND/ELEVATED BLD PRESS: ACC DISCHARGED A BB INTO HIS L FROM BB GUN. INC'D SWELL & PN TO PALM & DORSUM OF L HAND SINCE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT MOVING SOME BOXES AT HOME AND ONE OF THE BOXES HAD AN AIR PISTOL IN IT THAT SHOT A BB INTO LEFT HAND FB HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2009 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| FB L HAND/18YOM SHOT HIMSELF IN L HAND WITH BB GUN. HAS BB IN L HAND. N O PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2009 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| RIGHT HAND INJURY FROM BB INSIDE HAND. LEFT BEFORE BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/18/2009 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PATIENT HURT WHILE BIRD HUNTING WITH SHOTGUN WITH PELLETS. DX: SHOT GUN WOUND WITH FOREIGN BODIES IN HAND-PELLETS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2009 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT SHOT IN HAND WITH BB GUN. FB HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2009 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SELF IN HAND WHILE CLEANING HIS BB GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2009 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| TRYING TO LOAD A BB GUN AND ONE HIT HER HAND. DX FOREIGN BODY IN HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/12/2009 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| FB L PALM/15YOM AT 7P YEST, ACCIDENTALLY MISFIRED BB GUN AND SHOT SELF IN L HAND. STILL HAS BB IN HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2009 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| HAD HAND OVER END OF BBGUN AND ACCIDENTALLY PULLED TRIGGER;DX FOREIGN B ODY HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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