Accidents - BBs or pellets - 6-15 years old - Year 2008 - Eyeball

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,179
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Date: 12/30/2008	Age: 14 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
BB PELLET IN EYE. DX EYE INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/30/2008	Age: 10 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PTS FRIEND ACCID SHOT HIM IN R EYE W/ A PELLET FROM AN AIR PELLET GUN A T CLOSE RANGE. CANNOT SEE OUT OF R EYE, PAIN. DX TRAUMATIC HYPHEMA EYE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/01/2008	Age: 14 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, Computers
SHOT BY PLASTIC BB GUN TO EYE;DX CONTUSED EYE, PAIN OCCURRED TONIGHT WH EN USING COMPUTER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2008	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT AND COUSIN PLAYING WITH PELLET GUN AND COUSIN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT PT I N EYE;DX HEMORRHAGE EYEBALL
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 11/25/2008	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PATIENT ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN EYE BY 12 YO BROTHER WITH BB GUN AT HOME, SHOT FROM UNKNOWN DISTANCE; CORNEAL LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2008	Age: 12 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
PT WAS STRUCK IN THE L EYE W/ A BB. BB WAS SHOT AND THEN RICOCHETED AND HIT PT IN L EYE. NON DIRECT HIT. HAS WATERING, REDNESS. DX CORNEAL ABR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/18/2008	Age: 7 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
PT PLAYING WITH HIS COUSIN AND ACCIDENTLY SHOT IN THE LEFT EYE WITH A PLASTIC BB FROM THE BB GUN ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/04/2008	Age: 11 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT WAS HIT IN THE L EYE LAST NIGHT WITH A PLASTIC PELLET FROM A SOFT AI R GUN. NO LOC. PAIN, DECRESED VISION L EYE. DX L TRAUMATIC IRITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/02/2008	Age: 13 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
PATIENT SHOT IN EYE WITH BB GUN 1 MONTH AGO, NOT SEEN FOR INJURY, NOW B LURRY VISION, HEADACHES; BB IN LENS OF EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2008	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PLAYING WITH BB GUN WITH FRIEND, FRIEND SHOT GUN, BB RICHOETED OFF SOME THING,HIT IN EYE THEN GROUND;CONJUNC LAC., HYPHEMA,EYELID LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/03/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	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
BB PELLET INTO EYE AND NOW W/ PAIN DX: R EYE TRAUMATIC INJURY/ PAIN, TO TX GIVEN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/30/2008	Age: 10 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
SHOT BY A PLASTIC BB SHOT GUN DX: F.B. (BB PELLET) TO R EYE; ADMITTED TO SURG
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 08/28/2008	Age: 13 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
PT WAS PLAYING W/ FRIEND WHEN THEY WERE SHOOTING BB'S AT EACH OTHER W/ BB GUN. PT ACCID. STRUCK IN L EYE. PAIN, BLURRY VISION. DX L CORNEAL AB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/18/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Hemorrhage
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
SHOT IN EYE WITH BB GUN;DX HEMORRHAGE EYE
Disposition: Held for observation

Date: 08/15/2008	Age: 15 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 PLAYING WITH FRIEND WITH *** GUN AND WAS HIT IN EYE WITH BBDX: E YE INJ
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/21/2008	Age: 14 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, Other toy guns
R CORNEAL ABRAS;EYELID CONT/14YOM PLAYING WITH PLASTIC BB-TOY GUN & GOT HIT IN R EYELID.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/15/2008	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
SHOT IN EYE WITH BB GUN DX FOREIGN BODY EYELID
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/24/2008	Age: 11 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
PT WAS HIT IN THE EYE WITH A PLASTIC PELLET FROM A PELLET GUN. SHOT FR OM 15 FT AWAY. HAS VIS DITURB. REDNESS AND PAIN. DX R CORNEAL ABRAS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/20/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
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 SHOT IN THE EYE WITH A BB GUN. D: CORNEAL ABRASION / INJURY TO RIGHT IRIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/18/2008	Age: 12 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
PT WAS HIT IN THE EYE WITH A BB FIRED FROM A BB GUN. HAS TEARING AND BL URRED VISION IN R EYE. HAD 6 EPISODE OF VOMITING SINCE. DX CORNEAL ABRA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/13/2008	Age: 8 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
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WITH BB GUN/GSW EYE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 06/02/2008	Age: 14 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
PT HIT IN THE R EYE WITH A BB FROM AN *** BB GUN YESTERDAY. HAS PAIN IN R EYE TODAY AND TROUBLE FOCUSING. DX R CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2008	Age: 6 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
LEFT EYE INJURY, HIT WITH BB/PELLET. DX-EYE INJURY, CORNEAL ABRASION, ACUTE HYPLEMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2008	Age: 14 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
SHOT IN EYEBALL WITH BB GUN AT POINT BLANK RANGE;DX FOREIGN BODY EYEBAL L
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 05/08/2008	Age: 15 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 STRUCK IN L EYE BY BROTHER SHOOTING BB GUN W/ PLASTIC PELLETS,C/O BLURRY VISION-PAIN,DX CORNEAL ABRASION L EYE, POSS HYPHEMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/07/2008	Age: 9 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 SHOT IN EYE WITH PELLET GUN DX: PENETRATING LT EYE INJ
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 04/25/2008	Age: 7 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: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
R EYE CORNEAL ABRAS/7YOF STS HIT IN EYE W/SMALL SOFT PELLET FROM GUN.SO ME KIND OF RUBBER BB. HAPPENED AT UNCLES HOUSE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/08/2008	Age: 11 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
PATIENT STRUCK IN EYE BY PLASTIC BB FROM AIR GUN AT FRIEND'S HOUSE, BLU RRED VISION, PAIN; HYPHEMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/30/2008	Age: 7 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 AT HOME WAS PLAYING BB GUNS FRIEND SHOT HIM IN THE FACE WITH A PLAST IC BB ABRASION EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2008	Age: 8 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
PATIENT SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE IN EYE WITH BB GUN BY BOY DOWN THE STREET, ABLE TO SEE; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2008	Age: 11 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
PATIENT PLAYING WITH COUSIN WHEN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN EYE WITH BB GUN F ROM 5 FT, BLURRY VISION; TRAUMATIC MICROHYPHEMA, IRIDODIALYSIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/16/2008	Age: 9 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
PT WAS SHOT IN THE R EYE WITH A PLASTIC PELLET FROM AND AIR GUN. DX R C ORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/15/2008	Age: 11 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
PT STATES THAT HE WAS SHOT IN R EYE WITH A BB GUN. DX R CORNEAL ABRASIO N
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/08/2008	Age: 14 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 WITH PLASTIC BB FROM AIR GUN BY FRIEND'S 11 YO BROT HER, INITIAL BLURRY VISION; HYPHEMA, POSSIBLE HORSESHOE TEAR OF RETNA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/07/2008	Age: 15 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
SHOT IN THE EYE BY A SOFT PLASTIC PELLET. DX TRAUMA TO L EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2008	Age: 13 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
13 YO MALE HAD PELLET IN EYE CONTUSION EYE
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 03/02/2008	Age: 15 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
PATIENT ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN EYE BY BB, LOSS OF VISION IN EYE; NEAR COMP LETTE HYPHEMA, CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2008	Age: 11 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
HIT WITH PLASTIC AIR GUN PELLET LAST NIGHT;DX CONTUSED EYEBALL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2008	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Other
Product: BBs or pellets, Ceilings and walls
CHILD PLAYING WITH FRIENDS WHEN BB FROM BB GUN BOUNCED OFF WALL AND HIT EYE. D:HYPHEMA, TRAUMATIC UVEITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/17/2008	Age: 11 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 WITH CORNEAL ABRASION FROM AN "*** PELLET"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/12/2008	Age: 12 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, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT WAS PLAYING WITH HIS COUSION WITH A PLASTIC BB GUN AND SHOT IN THE L EFT EYE WITH A PLASTIC BB HYPHEMA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
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
SHOT WITH AIR SOFT BB GUN;DX CONTUSED EYEBALL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/01/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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 PLAYING WITH A BB GUN WHEN IT DISCHARGED AND A BB STRUCK PT IN RIGHT EYE TRANS TO WILLS EYE HOSPITAL DX: BB SHOT TO RIGHT EYE
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital

Date: 01/07/2008	Age: 14 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
PT SHOT IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH A BB GUN SUSTAINED AN ABRASION TO EYE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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