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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,147
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/03/2010 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 58YOM GOT SOMETHING IN EYE WHILE EMPTYING TRASH CAN FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2009 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 60YOM FELL INTO A TRASH CAN AT THE STORE STRUCK RIGHT EYE LACERATION EY EBALL |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/09/2009 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LIFTING UP A GARBAGE CAN AND IT HIT HIM IN THE EYE. DX. CORNEAL ABRASIO N.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2009 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT BENT OVER TRASH CAN. DX: R OPEN GLOBE INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2009 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT EYE FB. PT WAS EMPTYING A TRASH CAN AND GOT SOMETHING INTO EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2009 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH &WHILE THROWING IT INTO THE DUMPSTER, THE WIND KNOCKED THE LID DOWN ONTO PT'S EYE>>RUPTURED GLOBE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/08/2009 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| SLIP & FALL, STRUCK ON ON EDGE ON PLASTIC TRASH CAN DX: ACUTE TRAUMATI S IRITIS, EYEPAIN 2ND TO FALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/09/2009 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 86 Y/O FELL WALKING IN BATHROOM, STRUCK HEAD ON GARBAGE CAN AT HOME. DX-SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE, SKIN AVULSION, ABRASION FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HIT IN FACE BY RECYCLE BIN/ SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2006 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT CLOSED A TRASH BIN WHEN SOMETHING FLEW IN EYE. DX-FOREIGN BODY EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2006 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 59 Y/0 W/M RECIVED FOREIGN BODY INTO EYE WHILE PUTTING TRASH IN THE TRASH CAN AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2005 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: PUTTING YARD WASTE IN GARBAGE CAN AT HOME, SOME THING FLEW INTO EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2005 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LT CORNEAL AB-FELL-GOT DEBRIS FROM GARBAGE CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/25/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| BURNED R EYE WHEN BURNING TRASH, DX; CORNEAL ABRASION 2ND DEGREE BURN TO EYELID, NO FD ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Bags |
| PT WAS THROWNING A BAG OF GLASS IN DUMPSTER WHEN SOMETHING "LIQUID" CAM E OUT AND INTO EYE, DX CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2003 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT CORNEAL AB-PICKING UP GARBAGE CAN LID-A BUSH HIT EYE-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2003 | Age: 78 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS AT DUMPSTER WHILE IT WAS WINDY. CACTUS HAIR GOT IN EYE. D: CORNE AL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2003 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Floors or flooring materials |
| HEMATOMA LEFT EYE - WAS LEANING ON A TRASH CAN AT *** HAB. CENTER - CAN MOVED AND HE FELL ON FLOOR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2002 | Age: 72 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT EMPTYING TRASH CAN AT HOME THEN RUBBED EYES WITH HANDS DEVELOPED SEV ERE BURNING TO EYES CHEMICAL BURNS TO EYES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2002 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| F.B. (R) EYEBALL, PT STS SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS EYEBALL WHILE CLEANIN G THE TRASH CAN AT HOME, C/ O PAIN & ERYTHEMA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2001 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2001 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/1999 | 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: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/1999 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/1998 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/1998 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
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