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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 453
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/25/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 HAS BB IN HAND AFTER SHOOTING HAND WITH AIR PISTOL. D: FOREIGN BODY, HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2003 | Age: 44 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: Other |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PATIENT HAS PELLETS AROUND RIGHT EYEBROW & RIGHT CHEEK...WOUND CARE AND OINTMENT APPLIED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2003 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT. REPORTS BB IN LT. INDEX FINGER. L.W.T. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/19/2003 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| HUNTING PHEASANTS,GOT PELLETS IN THE BACK OF HIS NECK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2003 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| FOREIGN BODY R LEG - BB FROM BB GUN RICOCHETTED OFF TREE AND INTO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2003 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Ceilings and walls |
| PUNTURE WOUND - 30 YOM STATES HE WAS SHOT ACCIDENTALLY WHEN A BB SHOT F ROM BB GUN BOUNCED OFF WALL AND STRUCK HIM RUQ ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 41 YO M GSW W/BBGUN GSW FOREARM-NO EXIT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2003 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT INTOXICATED WITH A BUDDY WHEN THEY WERE SHOOTING TIN CANS OFF THEIR HEADS WITH A BB GUN- BB WENT INTO SCALP AND RETAINED FOREIGN BODY SCALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/10/2003 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| DX:GSW-FB REMOVAL L THUMB. REMOVAL OF PELLET. PT STATES WAS CAUGHT IN CROSS FIRE OF PELLET GUN ABOUT 4 MO AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2003 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT DX SMALL LACERATION LT FOREARM - C/O BB GUN PELLET IN LT FOREARM APPROXIMATELY 4 WEEKS AGO,AND DID NOT GET MEDICAL ATTENTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| PT SHOT WITH BB GUN IN EAR; PW TO EAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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