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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,413
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL STRUCK HEAD ON A GARBAGE CAN SUSTAINED A SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/22/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HEAD LAC, PT FELL PULLING ON TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRIPPED OVER GARBAGE CAN;. DX-MINOR HEAD INJURY # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT W/HELMET ON WAS HIT IN HEAD BY DUMPSTER LID. DX: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, R SHOULDER INJURY, DIABETES MELLITUS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2008 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Decorative yard equipment |
| DOG TRIPPED PATIENT HIT MAILBOX AND GARBAGE CAN SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2008 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CONCUSSION-FELL AGAINST SIDE OF DUMPSTER-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 11/14/2008 | Age: 93 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL WHILE PUTTING THE TRASH IN THE DUMPSTER, FOOT GOT CAUGHT & FELL BA CKWARDS---HEAD CONTUSION/SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DIZZY, FELL ONTO TRASHCAN, DX; SYNCOPE, SCALP LAC., CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/29/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRIP OVER TRASH CAN, DX; BHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL AT HOME GETTING GARBAGE CAN. DX SCALP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT WAS AT HOME, LOST HER BALANCE, FELL FORWARD STRIKING HER HEAD ON A TRASH CAN. DX-BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA, SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL INTO PLASTIC TRASH CAN, DX; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/18/2008 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL OVER A TRASH CAN AND LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS HIT WITH BOTTOM OF A PLASTIC TRASH CAN TO LEFT FOREHEAD AT HOME, HAS A KNOT TO FOREHEAD. DX-CLOSED HEAD INJURY, FH CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL HIT HEAD ON GARBAGE CAN LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS MOVING A GARBAGE CAN AND STEPPED ON AN ACORN THAT WAS IN THE GRA SS THAT CAUSED HER TO FALL TO THE DRIVEWAY LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 96 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL IN DRIVEWAY AND TRASH CAN FELL ON TOP OF HER DX: CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2008 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 73 YO MALE FELL AND HIT HEAD ON DUMPSTER LACERATION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL WHILE TAKING GARBAGE CAN DOWN DRIVEWAY. DX: SCALP LAC 1.5 CM, CONT HEAD/R ELBOW/FOREAR/HIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2008 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CLOSED HEAD INJURY, NASAL FX, 80 YOF, MOVING A DUMPSTER AND TRIPPED ON CONCRETE HITTING HER FACE & NOSE. |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 06/17/2008 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS AT HOME CLEANING OUT A GARBAGE CAN, TIPPING IT OVER CAUSING A CONTUSION TO HEAD W/ FOREHEAD LACEDRATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL HIT HEAD ON GARBAGE CAN LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT TRIED TO STOMP DOWN GARBAGE IN DUMPSTER AND FELL OUT. DX: HEAD CONT, MULT ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT WAS GETTING OUT OF A TRASH CAN, TRIPPED, FELL BACKWARDS, HIT HIS HEAD ON A ROCK. DX-OCCIPITAL SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/03/2008 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 72 YO MALE FELL IN DUMPSTER LAST WEEK LACERATION HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2008 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 90YOF WAS HOME TRIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HEAD ON METAL WASTEBASKET; HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/11/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL TAKING OUT GARBAGE CAN, LANDED ON THE GROUND, C/O KNEE PAIN, FEET GOT TANGLED IN THE LID. DX-SUBDURAL HEMATOMA, FRACTURE PATELLA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2008 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 57 YO MALE HAD METAL DOOR OF DUMPSTER FALL ON HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2008 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LACERATION HEAD.PT.REFERS TRIP OVER GARBAGE CAN FALLING DOWN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2008 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HEAD CT-FELL ON ICE WHILE GETTING TRASH CAN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/01/2008 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CHI.PT WAS TAKING OUT TRASH CAN AND FELL ON ICE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2008 | Age: 66 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT RUNNING TO CATCH BUS, TRIPPED OVER GARBAGE CAN AND FELL AT BUS STEPS . HIT SHOULDER ON GARBAGE CAN. D:SHOULDER/TEMPLE CONTUSION, CHI. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT ATTEMPRTING TO EMPTY OUT HER RECYCLING BIN AND FELL LANDING ONTO HEA D SUSTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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