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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,107
See also: Lethal accidents, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
Date: 10/12/2010 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
26YOM HOMELESS, FD WITH AMS BY POLICE TRYING TO SLEEP IN A DUMPSTER, TC H FD ON PT>>SUBS ABUSE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/25/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Swimming pool chemicals |
48 Y/O MALE OPENED UP TRASH CAN & GOT HIT IN FACE WITH CHLORINE FUMES FROM CHLORINE TABLETS WIFE THREW AWAY DX: CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/25/2010 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
48 Y/O MALE FOUND BY POLICE LEANING AGAINST A DUMPSTER AFTER USING METHADONE DX: ACCIDENTAL METH OVERDOSE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/27/2009 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
DRIVER,FELL UNCONCIOUS & CRASHED CAR INTO GARBAGE CANS, PT HAD HEART AT TACK WHILE DRIVING DX: CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST,LIKELY AMI,HX DM |
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
Date: 08/25/2009 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
WAS EXPOSED TO TRASH CAN FIRE SMOKE INHALATION FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/01/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
MULTIPLE ABRASIONS/CONTUSIONS.PT FELL ON A TRASH CAN. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 01/23/2009 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
+ETOH, BANGING HEAD ON TRASH CAN DX: ETOH INTOX, HX BIPOLAR DISORDER |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/24/2007 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
PT HAD MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS ON BODY, AFTER TRASH CONTAINER FELL ON TOP OF PATIENT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/09/2005 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
41 YO FEMALE WAW EXPOSED TO SMOKE DURING TRASH CAN FIRE SMOKE EXPOSURE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 12/05/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
TRACH CAN CAUGHT IN FIRE IN THE KITCHEN, NOW C SOB " TOXIC INHALATION" , FD DOCUMENTS NOT FOUND. |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/03/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
FOUNS NEXT TO DUMPSTER,ETOH ON BREATH. '' INTOX" BAC=0.235 |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/13/2005 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Fire extinguishers |
PUTTING OUT FIRE IN GARBAGE CAN W/ FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND INHALED SMOKE. SMOKE INHALATION. FIRE DEPT. ATTENDANCE NOT MENTIONED IN REPORT |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/16/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
PT FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN A PUBLIC DUMPSTER WITH A BLOOD ALCOHOL OF 390 GIVEN TREATMENT FOR ACUTE INTOXICATION |
Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
Date: 07/03/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
34 YEAR OLD MALE FELL INTO TRASH CAN- ETOH MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/22/2005 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
ALCOHOL INTOXICATION - 45 YOF FOUND LYING ON GROUND BESIDE DUMPSTER BEH IND A RESTAURANT, CRYING AND SMELLING OF ETOH, DECREASED RESPONSES |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/06/2005 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
SMOKE INHALATION, ANKLE FRACTURE - 43 YOF WAS PUTTING OUT FIRE IN PLAST IC TRASH CAN OUTSIDE HOME, SLIPPED ON WATER TWISTING HER RIGHT ANKLE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/06/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
SMOKE INHALATION - 38 YOF EXPOSURE TO FIRE BEING PUT OUT IN PLASTIC TRA SH CAN, MINIMAL EXPOSURE, FEELS THROAT SCRATCHY, FIRE DEPT YES |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/16/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Rugs or carpets |
TOOK 2 RUGS FROM PUBLIC TRASH CAN AND NOW HAS SCABIES AND WORMS FROM TH EM |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/26/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
PT PUNCTURED HAND ON A RUSTY DUMPSTER STARTED ON *** AND STARTED ITCHIN G , SNEEZING ALLERGIC REACTION |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/12/2003 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
PT C/O CHEST PAIN WHEN COMING DOWN OFF OF HEROIN, FOUND SLEEPING NEXT TO DUMPSTER ON THE STREET DX:CHEST PAIN |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 02/21/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
IN HOUSE FIRE;SMOKING CIGARATTE WHICH WAS NOT PUT OUT COMPLETELY IN TRA SH CAN AND CAUGHT FIRE;SMOKE INHALATION;FIRE DEPT ATTENDED |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/22/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
SMOKE INHALATION-ETOH INVOLVED-FOUND AT HOME W/A GARBAGE CAN ON FIRE- ROOM FILLED W/ SMOKE-FC PRESENT-COHB+3.9 |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 09/27/2002 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
ACUTE ALCOHOL INTOXICATION - FOUND APPARENTLY INTOXICATED EATING FROM A DUMPSTER |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/24/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
PT FOUND BEHIND DUMPSTER, HEROIN OD |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/21/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
FELL OVER GARBAGE CAN DX. SYNCOPE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 05/24/2002 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
PT FELL INTO TRASH BIN, INTOXICATEDDX; ETOH ABUSE |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/05/2001 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/01/2001 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 06/01/2001 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 03/07/2001 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Other public property | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/29/2000 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 07/16/1999 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 04/09/1999 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 11/24/1998 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
Date: 08/16/1998 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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