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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 508
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| WAS BITTEN BY RACCOON WHEN REACHED HAND INTO TRASH CAN - POSSIBLY RABIED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2002 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SUS A HAND FX AFTER PUNCHING A DUMPSTER . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RHUS DERMATITIS RT HAND.PT WAS PUTTING TRASH IN TRASH CAN AND BENT DOWN FOR LID AND WENT IN POISON IVY PLANT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HIT RT HAND AGAINST TRASH CAN & GROUND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FRACTURE METACARPAL AND LACERATION - 18 YOM PUNCHED A TRASH BIN INJURIN G RIGHT HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2002 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CUT LEFT HAND ON A RECYCLING BIN AT HOME LACERATION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC (L) HAND, PT FELL ON A GARBAGE CAN AT THE STREET, DENIES LOC OR NUMBNESS, C/O PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2002 | Age: 16 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Ceilings and walls |
| CONTUSION HAND - PATIENT PUNCHED A DUMPSTER AND THEN A WALL INJURING HI S RIGHT HAND - DONE IN ANGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT STATES WAS UPSET AND PUNCHED A TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2002 | Age: 20 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND AND PUNCHED A DUMPSTER. DX RIGHT HAND CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2002 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HAND LACERATION - CUT BASE OF LEFT RING FINGER ON HAND ON A METAL DUMPS TER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2002 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RIGHT HAND LAC. PT WAS EMPTYING TRASH CAN AND WAS CUT WITH OBJECT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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