Accidents - Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins - 26-50 years old - Year 2005 - Finger

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,960
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Date: 12/27/2005	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT WAS CUT ON GARBAGE CAN. DX: R MIDDLE FINGER LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
LAC R 2ND FINGER; STATES WAS PUSHING TRASH DOWN IN TRASH CAN WHEN HE CU T FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/04/2005	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT WAS CUT PUTTING HAND IN TRASH CAN. DX: 3.5 CM R THUMB LAC.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/26/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT FELL @ HOME AND HIT FINGER ON WICKER TRASK BASKET DX FB TO L INDEX F INGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2005	Age: 30 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
CUT FINGER PICKING UP A TRASH ?CAN " LAC"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/18/2005	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
LAC TO FINGER FROM METAL TRASH CAN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/24/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
TRASH CAN FELL ON HAND LAC. FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/24/2005	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
40 YO MALE CUT LEFT FINGER ON DUMPSTER LACERATION FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/22/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
DX LEFT MIDDLE FINGER STRAIN: TRIPPED OVER TRASH CAN AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/13/2005	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
LARGE GARBAGE CAN LID CLOSED ON FINGER'S LACERATION FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/09/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PUNCHED DUMPSTER IN ANGER DX 5TH FINGER FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/04/2005	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
TUFT FX R FINGERS/29YOM DROPPED HEAVY PLASTIC TRASH CONTAINER ON HAND I NJURING FINGERS. HAPPENED AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/29/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
LACERATION FINGER - 34 YOF LACERATED HER LEFT RING FI NGER ON A TRASH C AN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/08/2005	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
BIT BY A RACCOON-TRYING TO GET RACCOON OUT OF TRASH CAN RACCOON BITE RIGHT INDEX FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PATIENT WAS CLOSING THE DOORS OF HIS TRASH CAN WHEN HIS FINGERS GOT CAUGHT IN BETWEEN & HE LACERATED LEFT 2ND DIGIT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2005	Age: 29 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
RIGHT INDEX FINGER LAC, PT WAS PUSHING TRASH DOWN IN A CAN AND CUT FING RE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/07/2005	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
AMPUTATION FINGER - 45 YOF WAS RIDING A TRAIN, WENT TO PUT SOMETHING IN THE TRASH CAN, TRAIN JERKED AND PART OF HER RIGHT FINGER TIP CUT OFF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/27/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
FRACTURE FINGER - PATIENT REPORTS THROWING TIMBER INTO DUMPSTER AND RAM MED HIS LITTLE FINGER INTO DUMPSTER - HEARD FINGER SNAP
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/25/2005	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Sinks
PT WITH PAINFUL, SWOLLEN FINGER. PT REACHED INTO GARBAGE BARREL AND LIF TED OLD SINK YESTERDAY. ?INSECT BITE. D: PUNCTURE WOUND, CELLULITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/20/2005	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT HAD GARBAGE CAN FALL ON SELF; FINGER CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/14/2005	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
EVALUATION FOR RACOON BITE: NONE DETECTED: WENT TO PUT GARBAGE RACOON HAD GOOTEN INTO IN GARBAGE CAN, BIT BT RACOON
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/10/2005	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
INURED FINGER ON TRASH CAN AND TRASH CAN LID TRAUMATIC LEFT PINKY FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/06/2005	Age: 45 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
CLEANING,GARBAGE CAN LID FELL ON FINGER-CONTUSION 5TH FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2005	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
29 YEAR OLD MALE CUT LEFT FINGER WHILE EMPTYING TRASH CAN LACERATION 3RD FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/16/2005	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PATIENT WAS REACHING INTO A GARBAGE CAN CUTTING FINGER ON A PIECE OF GLASS. DX - LEFT INDEX FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2005	Age: 29 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
29 YO INJURED HAND WHEN A TRASH CAN LID FELL DOWN ON HAND CONTUSION HAND
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2005	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
35YMC SMASHED FINGER BETWEEN CONCRETE SLAB AND DUMPSTER/CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT WAS AT HOME WHEN SHE LACERATED HER RT 5TH FINGER ON A TRASH CAN LID.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2005	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
LAC L THUMB, PT TAKING GARBAGE CAN OUT& SUST INJURY, C/O BLEEDING, PAIN , SENSATION & MOTOR INTACT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2005	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Metal containers
PUSHING DOWN TRASH IN TRASH CAN LACERATION FINGER ON TIN CAN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/13/2005	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT FINGER GOT JAMMED BETWEEN DUMPSTER AND TRUCK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/08/2005	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
DX RIGHT THUMB LACERATION: CUT ON GLASS PUSHING GARBAGE DOWN IN CAN AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/18/2005	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
47 YO MALE CUT THUMB ON TRASH CAN LACERATION FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/11/2005	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Amputation
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
CAUGHT FINGER JUMPING FROM DUMPSTER AND AMPUTED IT,;MED FLITE IN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 04/05/2005	Age: 50 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT FELL ON STREET WHILE TAKING OUT RECYCLING BIN. DX: AVULSION L 2-4 DIGITS, FX L LONG FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/02/2005	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
LAC LEFT MIDDLE FINGER. PT WAS PUTTING TRASH IN DUMPSTER AND CUT FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/30/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
CUT R MIDDLE FINGER WHILE SMASHING TRASH DOWN, DX; 1/5 CM FINGER LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/27/2005	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT BURNT FINGERS TRYING TO PUT OUT A FIRE IN A TRASH CAN AND TOUCHED HOT PLASTIC, NOT STATED IF FIRE DEPT PRESENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/27/2005	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT CUT FINGER ON METAL GARBAGE CAN DX: R MIDDLE FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/26/2005	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PATIENT CUT FINGER ON GARBAGE CAN. LACERATION, RIGHT THUMB.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT INJURED HAND WITH GARBAGE CAN DX: L 3 DIGIT ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2005	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
CUT FINGER ON AN ALUMINUM TRASH CAN LID LACERATION RIGHT 2ND DIGIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2005	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
RECYCLING BIN FELL ONTO PT'S HANDS. DX: MULT LACS BILAT HANDS, OPEN FX L FIRST FINGER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/25/2005	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
NEEDLESTICK TO THUMB W/ CONTAMINATED NEEDLE IN TRASH CAN-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/14/2005	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
FINGER PW. PT STUCK FINGER IN TRASH CAN WHEN TAKING OUT TRASH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2005	Age: 29 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Glass bottles or jars
CUT FINGER ON GLASS BOTTLE IN GARBAGE. DX. R INDEX FINGER LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/01/2005	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Ceilings and walls
CAUGHT FINGER BETWEEN DUMPSTER & WALL FX FINGER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/01/2005	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PUSHING GARBAGE DOWN INTO CAN & LAC RT THUMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/22/2005	Age: 40 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT INJURIED FINGER ON A TRASH CAN A WK AGO, SITE GOT INFECTED, SUSTAINE D" FINGER CLELLULITIS"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/06/2005	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
RIGHT THUMB LAC, PT CUT FINGER ON SOMETHING IN TRASH CAN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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