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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,287
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2003 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT FOREARM STR. PT INJURED FOREARM WHEN MOVING A FULL TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2003 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CARRYING A HEAVY GARBAGE CAN WHEN SHE FELL FRACTURED RIGHT LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2003 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC (L) FOREARM, VIA EMS, PT STS SUST INJURY WITH BROKEN GLASS IN A GAR BAGE CAN, C/O PAIN, BLEEDING, SENSATION INTACT, NO VASCULAR COMPROMISE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2003 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FX R RADIUS; CAUGHT IN HANDLE OF FALLING DUMPSTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2003 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CUT ARM ON SOMETHING IN TRASH CONTAINER DX LACERATION TO FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2003 | Age: 92 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT LIVES IN NURSING HOME AND SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING FOREARM ON WASTEBASKET AND PELVIS ON FLOOR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2003 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT MOVING TRASH CAN FELL INJURED FOREARM DX FX FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2003 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 27 Y/O M INJURED R FOREARM WHEN PUSHING TRASH INTO TRASH CAN AND CUT SE LF ON GLASS AT HOME. DX; LAC R FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| BANGED FOREARM AGAINST A TRASH CAN THAT WAS FALLING. DX. FOREARM CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HIT A GARBAGE CAN GOING ABOUT 50MPH, CAR DOOR SNAPPED BACK AND HIT ARM/ FX RT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/01/2003 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CUT FOREARM WHEN FELL ON PLASTIC GARBAGE CAN THAT WAS BROKEN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Metal containers |
| PT SEEN FOR ARM LAC AFTER CUTTING ON A METAL CAN INSIDE THE TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2003 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CELLULITIS RIGHT FOREARM. CUT KNUKLE ON TRASH CAN AND INFECTION SPREAD TO FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT REACHING INTO HIS GARBAGE CAN AT HOME THERE WAS A PIECE OF WOOD STIC KING UP OUT OF THE CAN GOT A FOREIGN BODY IN RIGHT LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2003 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS PLACING TRASH IN HIS DUMPSTER AT HOME SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO LEFT LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2003 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL OFF TRASH CAN AND FRACTURED ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2003 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CUT SELF ON TRASH CAN RIGHT FOREARM LACERATION 2 CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2003 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT LOWER ARM PAIN-AFTER PULLING GARBAGE CAN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2003 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TOOK OUT GARBAGE 1 HOUR AGO. ACUTE LT RADIAL/ULNAR WRIST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 06/10/2003 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT PUTTING GARBAGE INTO GARBAGE CAN AT HOME, SUSTAINED LAC TO LT LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2003 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| SLIPPED & FELL WHILE PULLING TRASH CAN RADIAL FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 49 YOM CUT HIS FOREARM WHILE TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE CONTAINER. LACERATI ON, LEFT FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2003 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 51 YOF WAS A RESTRAINED PASSENGER INVOLVED IN MVA WHEN CAR HIT A DUMPS TER ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. CONTUSION, RIGHT FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2003 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DX LACERATION RIGHT FOREARM: CUT ARM ON EDGE OF TRASH CAN AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2003 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Riding power lawn mowers |
| PT TRYING TO THROW TRASH IN A DUMPSTER HAD TO CLIMB OVER A RIDING LAWN MOWER TO GET TO THE DUMPSTER FELL SUSTAINED LACERATION TO RT LOWER ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2003 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LT FOREARM LAC-CUT ON BROKEN GLASS IN TRASH CAN-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2003 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HOMELESS PT LACERATED FOREARM WHILE "DUMPSTER DIVING". +ETOH. D: FOREAR M LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2003 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CONTUSION TO ARM WHEN FELL AND STRUCK TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/05/2003 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CONTUSED LOWER ARM WHEN FELL FROM DUMPSTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DX LEFT LOWER ARM LACERATION: CUT ARM ON GLASS IN GARBAGE CAN AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2003 | Age: 12 months | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DX LACERATION TO LEFT FOREARM: BROKEN GLASS STICKING OUT FROM GARBAGE CAN AT HOME, CUT ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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