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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 403
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/17/2008 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| RIGHT ARM STR. PT STRAINED ARM WHEN CARRYING GARBAGE TO THROW INTO A DU MPSTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/23/2008 | Age: 57 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 |
| 57YOM THROWING AWAY SOMETHING IN GARBAGE CAN AT HOME,STRUCK FOREARM; FOREARM LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2008 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| PICKING UP TRASH CAN&LID FELL OFF,PT TIPPED CAN OVER & FELL INTO CAN,HI TTING ARM ON SIDE OF CAN DX: ARM ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/05/2008 | Age: 80 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 |
| FOREARM LAC-CUT ON TRASH CAN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2008 | Age: 59 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 |
| PT SUSTAINED A LACERATION OF THE FOREARM BY FALLING AGAINST A RECYCLING BIN AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| 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 |
| PT WAS DUMPSTER DIVING WHEN HE FELL ON SOME GLASS IN DUMPSTER. D: ARM L ACERATION, NEAR SYNCOPE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2008 | Age: 79 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 |
| C/O HAND PAIN, FELL PUSHING A LARGE TRASH CAN. DX-BILATERAL RADIUS FRACTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2008 | Age: 83 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: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS DRAGGING A TRASH CAN, TO ER WITH ARM PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/14/2008 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 TAKING OUT THE TRASH AND DRAGGED LOWER ARM ACROSS THE TOP OF THE DUM PSTER LACERATION ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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