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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 920
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2009 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 64 YOF KNEE CONTUSION CERVACALGIA , FELL INSIDE THE HOSPITAL AND HIT HE R R KNEE AND CHIN ON TRASH CAN, NO LOC NO LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/15/2009 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL ON TRASH CAN;DX CONTUSED KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2009 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 66YOF KNEE PAIN S/P TRIPPED OVER TRASHCAN AND FELL DX: KNEE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2009 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Day wear |
| 90 YOF WAS POURING GREASE INTO A GARBAGE CAN AND SOME OF THE GREASE SPI LLED ON HER RIGHT PANT LEG. 2ND DEGREE BURN, LESS THAN 1% RIGHT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 57YO WHITE FEMALE TAKING TRASH CAN OUT,WHEELS LOCKED UP,PT TRIPPED FELL,DX PROXIMAL FIBULA FRACTURE, ANKLE & KNEE FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2009 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 44 YO M WAS OUTSIDE MOVING TRASH CAN WHEN STEPPED WRONG ON LEG. DX:KNEE STRAIN, PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2009 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT TRIPPED OVER A GARBAGE CAN AND STRAINED KNEE 37 YOF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2009 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| C/O KNEE PAIN FELL IN A BIN AND HIT KNEE. DX-STRAIN KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2009 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Floors or flooring materials |
| CONTUSION KNEE: 89YOF VISITING PT IN LOCAL HOSPITAL, GOING TO BATHROOM TRIPPED OVER A BIN, FELL ON FLOOR DIRECTLY ON KNEE, C/O RT KNEE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/05/2009 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| REPORTS TRIPPED OVER UNEVEN SIDEWALK&EMBRACED SELF ONTO A GARBAGE CAN, TWISTING KNEE>>KNEE PAIN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/11/2009 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH AND CUT LEG ON UNKNOWN OBJECT IN THE TRASH. D : LACERATION RIGHT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT @ DUMP, SCRAPED KNEE BETWEEN DUMPSTER & CAR DX;; INFECTED ABRASION (R) KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2009 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT KNEE STRAIN.PT LIFTED A TRASH CAN AND INJURED KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2009 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT TAKING OUT THE TRASH AND TRIPPED OVER THE CAN FFELL ONTO LEFT KNEE O N THE CONCRETE CONTUSION TO KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/30/2009 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT JUMPED OUT OF DUMPSTER AND INJURED KNEE IN FRONT OF STORE DX// RIGHT KNEE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2009 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL WALKING ACROSS LAWN TO PUT THE RECYCLING BIN OUT TO THE CURB LEFT PATELLAR RUPTURED TENDON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2009 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT MOVING SOME GARBAGE CANS AND LEANED OVER AND FELL TO THE GOUND DISLO CATED RIGHT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/23/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC TO KNEE, PT WAS WALKING BY A TRASH CAN THAT HAD PIECE OF GLASS IN I T AND CAUGHT HER LEG ON IT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HELPING HER HUSBAND CARRY DOWN THE GARBAGE CANS LAST EVENING AND SLI PPED ON THE GRASS STRAINED KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2009 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SLIPPED AND FELL WHILE TRYING TO LIFT DUMPSTER LID COVERED W/SNOW. DX: L KNEE STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/03/2009 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| KNEE STR. PT TWISTED KNEE WHEN TAKING OUT TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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