Accidents - BBs or pellets - 6-15 years old - Years 1997-2010 - Lower Leg

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,005
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Years:

Year 1997:	259
Year 1998:	239
Year 1999:	10
Year 2000:	85
Year 2001:	33
Year 2002:	35
Year 2003:	323
Year 2004:	281
Year 2005:	175
Year 2006:	93
Year 2007:	198
Year 2008:	102
Year 2010:	165

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 09/18/2010	Age: 10 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: Other
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
DX GSW BY AIR GUN/FB IN EXTREMITY: 10YOF SHOT IN L CALF W/ CO2 PELLET GUN F 20FT BY FRIEND'S 14YO BRO. STATES ROM IN LLE LIMIT' FLEXION & EXT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2010	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
10 YOM HAS A BB STUCK IN LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2010	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
11YOM,SHOT IN RIGHT LOWER LEG S/P HIS BROTHER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIM PLAYING WITH A BB GUN,CRUTCHES PROVIDED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/20/2010	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		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
10YO M;C/0 POSSIBLE BB TO LEFT LOWER LEG BEHIND KNEE ONSET SUNDAY. DX: FOREIGN BODY TO LEFT LOWER LEG*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
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
PT SHOT WITH A PELLET GUN. DX FB LEG (NO ASSAULT)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Ladders
CLIMBING LADDER WHILE CARRYING BB GUN, IT ACCIDENTALLY WENT OFF SHOT LE G. DX FB LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		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
PT HAS A PELLET STUCK IN LEG AFTER SHOT SELF WITH A PELLET GUN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
SHOT BY A BB GUN. DX LEG ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2008	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
SHOT WITH PELLET GUN FB RT CALF *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2007	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		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
PT HAS A BB STUCK IN LEG - SHOT BY ACCIDENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/03/2007	Age: 10 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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
GSW LOWER LEG-CALF, ENTRANCE WOUND ANTERIOR SHIN, BB PALPABLE CALF, ACC IDENTLY SHOT BY OTHER YOUTH W/BB GUN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/05/2007	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
12 SHOT IN LEG BY BB GUN FOREIGN BODY LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/03/2007	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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
GSW LOWER LEG NO EXIT WOUND, PLAYING W/BB SHOOTING BIRDS & WAS SHOT XRAY SHOWS BB, WOUND CLEANED/BANDAGED, BB LEFT IN LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2007	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
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
PT ACCIDENTLY SHOT IN THE LEFT LOWER LEG WITH A BB GUN AND THE BB RETAI NED FB LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/21/2007	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
15YOM FRIEND ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIM IN LEG WITH BB GUN/FO IN CALF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/21/2007	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		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
SHOT IN LOWER LEG WITH PELLET GUN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2006	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN CALF WITH BB, DX; FB LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2006	Age: 15 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: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
DX: GSW TO L LEG FROM BB GUN OR PELLET
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/14/2006	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
8 YO SHOT IN LEG W/BB GUN FOREIGN BODY LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/23/2005	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT WAS PLAYING W/FRIEND ON TUESDAY WHEN FRIEND SHOT BB GUN; BB BOUNCED OFF SOMETHING & HIT PT ON LEG. D: LEFT LOWER LEG CELLULITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/27/2005	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		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
PT WAS ASSAULTED AND SHOT IN LOWER LEG WITH A BB FROM A BB GUN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/16/2005	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		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
PT WAS SHOT WITH BB FROM A BB GUN ON LOWER LEG BY UNKNOWN PERSON
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2005	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
DX PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT LOWER LEG: SHOT BY PELLET GUN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2004	Age: 8 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		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
PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HE GOT A PELLET SHOT FROM A PELET GUN LODGED IN HI S RT LWR LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/05/2004	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT SHOT A BB INTO HIS LEG BY ACCIDENT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/11/2004	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
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
PT IN A CROWD OF KIDS WHEN SOMEONE SHOT HIM IN THE LEFT LOWER LEG WITH A BB GUN B RETAINED FOREIGN BODY LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/14/2004	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		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 RT LOWER LEG WITH REMOVAL, PLAYING IN ROOM WITH FRIEND WAS SHOT WITH BB GUN, STATES FRIEND DIDN'T KNOW BB GUN WAS LOADED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/25/2003	Age: 15 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
15 YO F SHOT IN LEG W/BB GUN FOREIGN BODY LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/18/2003	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PT SHOT A BB GUN AND THE BB RICOCHETED INTO HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG PUNCTUR E WOUND LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/14/2003	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
FOREIGN BODY LOWER LEG - PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTLY SHOT BY BB GUN - PELLET IN BACK OF LEG JUST BELOW KNEE - WALKED IN FRONT OF GUN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/27/2003	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		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
11 YOM PRESENTED TO THE ER. WITH A BB IN LEFT LOWER LEG; HAD BEEN SHOOT ING HIS BB GUN; ACCIDENTALLY WENT OFF. FOREIGN BODY, LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/13/2003	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		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
PT WAS PLAYING WITH FRIEND WITH A BB GUN WHEN IT ACCIDENTLY SHOT A BB I NTO LEFT LOWER LEG FOREIGN BODY LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/08/2003	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
PT SHOT SELF IN LOWER LEG WITH BB GUN, PIECE OF WOOD EMBEDDED IN LT LOW ER LEG, FB LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2003	Age: 12 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		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
3 DAYS AGO PT WAS SHOT IN LOWER LEG WITH PELLET GUN BY ACCIDENT. D: F OREIGN BODY TO LEFT LEG
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/22/2002	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PATIENT WITH ON LEG WITH BB WITH A BB GUN; SUPERFICIAL BB ABRASION TO C ALF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/04/2002	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
PUNCTURE TO LEG FROM BB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/19/2002	Age: 8 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
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
PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTLY SHOT WITH A BB GUN. DX-FOREIGN BODY RIGHT LOWER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/21/2001	Age: 10 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
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
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/09/2001	Age: 12 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: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2000	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/21/2000	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/28/1999	Age: 15 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
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
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/09/1999	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/10/1998	Age: 13 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		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
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/29/1998	Age: 13 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
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/1998	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/30/1998	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/19/1998	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/27/1998	Age: 7 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/13/1998	Age: 6 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/1998	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/09/1997	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/08/1997	Age: 11 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/1997	Age: 6 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/22/1997	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/21/1997	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: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: BBs or pellets, Gas, air or spring-operated guns
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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