Accidents - Plastic bags - 26-50 years old - Year 2005

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,111
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:

Lower Trunk:	345	Wrist:	211
All Of Body:	151	Foot:	98
Finger:	91	Knee:	76
Shoulder:	59	Face:	46
Lower Leg:	15	Eyeball:	15

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/17/2005	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags, Ceilings and walls
PT SLIPPED ON A PLASTIC BAG AND HIT HEAD ON WALL AT HOME. PT DX FOREHEAD LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic bags
HIT WITH CORNER OF PLASTIC BAG IN EYE. CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2005	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags
41 YOM LACERATION WRIST WHEN PUSHING DOWN TRASH AND SHARP OBJECT POLED THROUGH PLASTIC BAG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/19/2005	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic bags
32 YOM LUMBAR STRAIN CARRYING GROCERIES AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/16/2005	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Plastic bags
COCAINE OVERDOSE-SWALLOWED 9 ROCK OF COCAINE IN A PLASTIC BAG WHEN POLI CE ARRESTED HIM.
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/15/2005	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plastic bags
C/O PT STATES WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH AND STEPPED IN A HOLE AND TWISTED DX LT FOOT FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/08/2005	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic bags
46 Y/O M INJURED LOWER BACK WHILE THROWING PLASTIC LEAF BAGS INTO TRUCK AT HOME. DX; LOW BACK SPRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2005	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Street or highway		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Plastic bags
WAS FOUND IN ALLEY BEHIND A POOL HALL-NOT BREATHING. FOUND 2 PLASTIC BAGS FULL OF BROWN LEAFY SUBSTANCES IN AIRWAY. CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST
Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead

Date: 08/19/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags
STEPPED ON A PLASTIC GARBAGE BAG AND LACERATED FOOT ON SOMETHING IN BAG LACERATION FOOT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/28/2005	Age: 42 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic bags
MOVING GARBAGE BAG (TAKING IT OUT), TRIPPED & FELL. ACUTE PAIN IN BACK 2ND TO STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/11/2005	Age: 49 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Plastic bags
PT C/O PAIN TO FACE AROUND RT EYE,SLIPPED ON PLASTIC BAG AND FELLYESTER DAY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/05/2005	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags
C/O PT ,CUT LEG WHILE CARRYING TRASH BAG DX LT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/03/2005	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Knee		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags
#1 CUT R KNEE ON PIECE OF UNKNOWN GLASS TAKING OUT TRASH BAG LACERATION KNEE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/11/2005	Age: 27 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Foot		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags
STATES SHE DROPPED TRASH BAG ON FOOT THAT HAD BROKEN GLASS IN IT DX RT FOOT LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/17/2005	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags
STATES HE WAS TAKING OUT GARBAGE AND CUT FINGER DX LT FINGER LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2005	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags, Knives
WHLE OPENING PLASTIC BAG W/ KNIFE CUT LT. WRISTDX: WRIST LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/27/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Plastic bags
PT WKS AT HOTEL, GOT STUCK ON THE FINGER C A SYRINGE WHILE CARRYING A P LASTIC TRASH BAG SUSTAINED" EXPOSURE"
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/11/2005	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Shoulder		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Plastic bags, Stairs or steps
SLIPPED ON PLASTIC BAG & FELL DOWN FLIGHT OF BASEMENT STAIRS. ACUTE RT SHOULDER INJURY, CANNOT R/O OCCULT FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/05/2005	Age: 48 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic bags
PT WAS CARRYING THREE FULL PLASTIC BAGS OF GROCERY ITEMS AT THE STORE A ND NOW IS COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN RIGHT WRIST STRAINED WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/26/2005	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Finger		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Plastic bags
LAC RRF WHILE TAKING OUT BAG OF GARBAGE TODAY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/20/2005	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic bags
36 Y/O W/M STRAINED LOWER BACK WHILE TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/15/2005	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic bags
36 YO MALE WAS LIFTING BAGS OF ICE LUMBAR STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/13/2005	Age: 34 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Plastic bags
PT PLACED A SMALL *** PLASTIC BAG WITH $10 WORTH OF HEROIN UP NOSE,FB N OSE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/07/2005	Age: 35 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Trunk		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Plastic bags
PT CAME OUT OF GRO STORE CARRYING GROC IN PLASTIC BAGS , SLIPPED ON ICE ON SIDEWALK AND FELL. DX LOW BACK STRAIN L KNEE CONTUSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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