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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 282
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/16/2007 | Age: 20 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: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC TO LEG FROM TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 22 YO MALE CUT LEFT LEG ON METAL TRASH CAN LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SUSTAINED CONTUSION TO LEG AFTER RUNNING INTO A GARBAGE CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 22YOF SUSTAINED A LOWER LEG LACERATION ON GLASS WHILE PULLING HER TRASH CAN OUTSIDE THIS MORNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2007 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Glass bottles or jars |
| PT PUSHING TRASH DOWN WITH HER LEG WHEN THERE WAS A BROKE GLASS BOTTLE IN THE TRASH CAN SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2007 | Age: 22 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: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HAD A GARBAGE CAN FALL ONTO LEFT LOWER LEG ABRASION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEG LAC, PT CUT LEG ON A TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT BUMPED LOWER L LEG ON DUMPSTER - CONTUSED LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| SLIPPED OFF A DUMPSTER LANDED ON LEG COMMUNICATED FRACTURE RIGHT TIBIA FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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