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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 695
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| LEFT RIB FX.PT FELL INTO A TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2007 | Age: 35 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 SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO METAL GARBAGE CAN. DX: CHEST CONT, POSS RIB FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE FELL FX RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2007 | Age: 47 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 |
| PT REACHED INTO A DUMPSTER. DX: L RIB CAGE MUSCLE STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | 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 |
| LEFT CHEST CONTUSION-SLIPPED AND FELL OUTSIDE STRIKING CHEST ON A DUMPS TER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2007 | Age: 38 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 |
| THORACIC STRAIN - PICKED UP HEAVY TRASH CAN YESTERDAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | 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 SUSTAINED CONTUSION TO CHEST WALL AFTER FALLING ON A GARBAGE PAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| 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 |
| PT FELL AGAINST A WASTE CONTAINER AND HAS A RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Containers |
| PT WAS REACHING OVER INTO A DUMPSTER TO GET A BOX WHEN THE DUMPSTER LID FELL ONTO HIM SUSTAINED IOI CHEST AND RUPTURED SPLEEN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/08/2007 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | 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 |
| RT RIB CONTUSION,CS.PT WAS STANDING ON A DUMPSTER AND FELL OFF. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| 44 YO MALE LIFTED DUMPSTER CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| FELL INTO TRASH CAN AND CONTUSED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | 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'S FOOT SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING INTO DUMPSTER AT ST VINCENT DE PAUL. DX: RIB CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT STATES HURTING RIBS WHEN REACHING IN DUMPSTER TO GET STUFF DX: CHESTWALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| 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, Alcohol |
| PATIENT WAS INEBRIATED 2 DAYS AGO AND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO A TRASH CAN AFTER SITTING ON HER BED STRIKING HER BACK. DX-RT RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| PT HAD FALL INTO DUMPSTER ONE WEEK AGO. WAS GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF DU MPSTER WHEN HAND SLIPPED & HE FELL. RIB PAIN. D: CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2007 | Age: 41 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 |
| RIB FRACTURE,ETOH.PT FELL OVER A TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| CHEST WALL CONTUSION.PT FELL INTO A DUMPSTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| CHEST WALL CON TUSION.PT FELL IN TO A GARBAGE CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| DX CHEST CONTUSION: FELL TAKING TRASH CAN OUT AND FELL AGAINST EDGE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2007 | Age: 31 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 |
| CHEST WALL STRAIN.PT HAD A TRASH CAN FALL ON CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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