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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,222
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2008 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LOST BALANCE & FELL INTO TRASHCAN DX: ABRASION TO FACE/ NEW ONSET ATRIAL FIBRILLATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/08/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HIT WITH TRASH CAN LID, DX;FX NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT TRIPPED OVER A GARBAGE CAN LID STRUCK FACE AGAINST THE RIM OF THE GA RBAGE CAN FRACTURED NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT STATES SOMETHING WAS STICKING OUT OF TRASH CAN AND WHEN PT PICKED IT UP IT CUT PT'S FACE DX: LACERATION TO FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/30/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 86 LOST BALANCE WHEN BENDING OVER AND HIT TRASH CAN HEMATOMA FACE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/02/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT FELL AT HER HOME, TRIPPED OVER TRASH CAN & HIT HEAD ONTO HARDWOOD FL OOR. LAC FOREHEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FILLING TRASH IN DUMPSTER,LOST BALANCE FELL, DUMPSTER FELL OVER,STRUCK HEAD DX: FOREHEAD LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| NASAL LAC, PT FELL FACE FIRST INTO A TRASH CAN AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/18/2008 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FOREHEAD LAC, LOST BALANCE & FELL WITH TRASH BIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FACIAL LAC. CHI. PT FELL WHEN TAKING TRASH CAN OUT IN THE DARK |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/30/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 80YOM WAS HOME BRINGING TRASH BINS INTO HOUSE,FELL STRIKING FOREHEAD; FOREHEAD HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WITH NASAL FRACTURE AFTER FALLING FACE FIRST INTO TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC TO L EYEBROW, DOING YARDWORK @ HOME AND HIT TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRIPPED OVER GARBAGE CAN, FELL & STRUCK NOSE DX: NASAL FX, UPPER LIP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2008 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Plants, trees and shrubs |
| PT WAS GETTING TRASH CANS DOWN STEEP EMBANKMENT AND SLIPPED AND FELL INTO A TREE AT HOME DX: DEEP LACERATION TO NOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 84Y/O,F,TRIPPED & FELL AGAINST TRASH CAN, L PERIORBITAL CONTUSION, CERVICAL STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FACIAL LAC;CONT'S/81YOM WAS TAKING OUT GARBAGE AND TRIPPED HITTING HIS HEAD ON SIDEWALK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FACIAL ABRASION.PT TRIPPED OVER TRASH CAN AND HIT FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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