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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 865
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/20/2009 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| BB IN EAR |
| 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: 11/12/2009 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| 37YOM OUT HUNTING WAS ACCIDETALY HIT WITH BBS TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| GSW WOUND TO ABDOMEN WITH BB GUN.PT WAS CLAEANING BB GUN AND IT WENT OF F. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2009 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 36YO WHITE FEMALE STS HUSBAND ACCIDENTLY SHOT PT IN L FOOT WITH BB GUN PUNCTURE WOUND DORSAL ASPECT L FOOT, DX FOOT PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| SHOT SELF IN FINGER BY ACCIDENT WITH BB GUN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| SHOT UNDER LT EYE WITH BB GUN DX:LT LOWER EYELID CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2009 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT HAS BB LODGED IN LIP FOR 8 MONTHS, LIP PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2009 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| 48 YO M PLACTIC BB IN EAR, CHILD WAS PLAYING AND SHOT GUN* |
| 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: 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: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| ACCIDENTALLY SHOT PELLET IN TOE FB TOE * |
| 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: 06/07/2009 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT DX FOREIGN BODY IN FACE - S/P LACERATION TO FACE - AFTER BB GUN PELLET LODGED IN FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2009 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | 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 |
| FB LEFT INDEX FINGER-BB.PT ACCIDENTLY SHOT SELF WITH A BB GUN IN FINGE R. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2009 | Age: 38 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 |
| PT WAS ACCIENTALLY SHOT WITH A BEBE FROM BEBE GUN IN EYE TRANS TO WILLS EYE HOSPITAL DX: PUNCTURE WOUND RIGHT ORBIT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2009 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| 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 PLAYING AROUND WITH A BB GUN THAT MISFIRED AND BB WENT INTO LEFT IND EX FINGER FB FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| 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: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| PT WAS SHOT IN THE RIBS WITH A BB GUN; BB STUCK IN WOUND DX: FOREIGN BODY--BB REMOVED |
| 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: 01/25/2009 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: BBs or pellets |
| SHOT WITH BB IN UPPER LIP FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL UPPER LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2009 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns |
| LOADING A PELLET GUN AND WENT OFF STRIKING THUMB. DX THUMB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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