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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 511
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2004 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT PULLED GARBAGE CAN TO ROAD AT HOME. DX-CHEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RIB FXS-FELL-HIT CHEST ON TRASH CAN-IN THE STREET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2004 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 36 YO MALE PICKED UP TRASH CAN LAST NIGHT AND HURT BACK THORACIC STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2004 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| SLIPPED, CARRYING GARBAGE CAN DX. CHEST STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL AGAINST A GARBAGE PAIL LAST EVENING CONTUSION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2004 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LIFTING GARBAGE CANS TO DUMPSTER AND BANGED RIB CAGE ON EDGE FRACTUR ED RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEANING INTO DUMPSTER AND FELL DX' CHEST WALL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/02/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT STATES HE WAS LIFTING AND BENDING PICKING UP TRASH CANS AT HOME AND DEVELOPED UPPER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 43 YO FEMALE FELL INTO DUMPSTER WHILE EMPTYING TRASH CONTUSION LEFT CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2004 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| THOR STR. PT WAS INJURED WHEN TAKING OUT TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT. FELL INTO HARD PALSTIC GARBAGE BIN LAST WEEK. C/O BREAST PAIN. L.W. T. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/04/2004 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT WAS HURT WHILE LIFTING HEAVY GARBAGE CAN. DX: UPPER CHEST & UPPER BACK PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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