Number and percentage* of BB/pellet gun related injuries and firearm related injuries and deaths for persons aged 19 years and younger, by selected characteristics of the injury incident, United States, 1993–99
| Characteristics | Non-fatal BB/pellet gun related injuries† | Non-fatal firearm related injuries† | Firearm related deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | No | Mean (%) annual No | No | Mean (%) annual No | No | Mean (%) annual No |
| *Column percentages may not sum up to 100.0 due to rounding error. | ||||||
| †National estimates of non-fatal gunshot injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. | ||||||
| ‡Includes injuries from legal intervention. | ||||||
| **Estimate may be unstable because sample size was <20 or the coefficient of variation was >30%. | ||||||
| Data sources: National Vital Statistics System, National Center for Health Statistics for deaths; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Firearm Injury Surveillance Study for non-fatal injuries; US Census Bureau for population estimates. | ||||||
| Intent | ||||||
| Unintentional | 80345 | 11478 (65.8) | 26633 | 3805 (18.6) | 2636 | 377 (8.0) |
| Assault‡ | 11145 | 1592 (9.1) | 92131 | 13162 (64.3) | 20231 | 2890 (61.5) |
| Self inflicted | 201** | 29** (0.2)** | 4089 | 584 (2.9) | 9365 | 1338 (28.5) |
| Undetermined | 30377 | 4340 (24.9) | 20346 | 2907 (14.2) | 680 | 97 (2.1) |
| Disposition | ||||||
| Treated and released | 113917 | 16274 (93.3) | 70014 | 10002 (48.9) | – | – |
| Treated and transferred | 3271 | 467 (2.7) | 6707 | 958 (4.7) | – | – |
| Hospitalized | 4690 | 670 (3.8) | 66170 | 9453 (46.2) | – | – |
| Observation/unknown | 190** | 27** (0.2)** | 308** | 44** (0.2)** | – | – |
| Primary body part affected | ||||||
| Extremity | 65073 | 9296 (53.3) | 76225 | 10889 (53.2) | – | – |
| Trunk | 14757 | 2108 (12.1) | 36901 | 5272 (25.8) | – | – |
| Face | 18784 | 2683 (15.4) | 7504 | 1072 (5.2) | – | – |
| Head/neck | 14296 | 2042 (11.7) | 13166 | 1881 (9.2) | – | – |
| Eye | 7258 | 1037 (5.9) | 664 | 95 (0.5) | – | – |
| Other | 1901 | 272 (1.6) | 8739 | 1248 (6.1) | – | – |
| Total | 122068 | 17438 (100.0) | 143199 | 20457 (100.0) | 32912 | 4702 (100.0) |