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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 399
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/24/2009 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT TO ARM FROM HYPODERMIC NEEDLE IN TRASH CAN AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2009 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 CUT FOREARM ON TRASH CAN AT HOME 3.5 CM LACERATION LT FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2009 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| WHILE TAKING OUT TRASH, PT CUT ARM ON CAN. DX ARM LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2009 | Age: 44 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 THROWING CERAMIC TILE INTO A DUMPSTER WHEN HE SUSTAINED LACERATI ON TO FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2009 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| LAC LWR ARM ON TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2009 | Age: 29 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 |
| PT TAKING HIS TRASH CAN OUT AT HOME AND SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO RIGHT LOWER ARM ON THE CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2009 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 40 Y/O' S DAD ACCIDENTALLY SET FIRE TO GARBAGE IN BATHROOM, PATIENT THREW IT OUTSIDE BURNING HER FOREARM. DX-BURN FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2009 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL WHILE PUSHING A RECYCLE BIN. DX: L PROXIMAL RADIAL FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2009 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | 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 |
| FELL AGAINST PLASTIC TRASH CAN. DX CONTUSION R ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2009 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LOWER ARM INJURY FROM FALLING OUT OF DUMPSTER. DX-FALL, LEFT DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE, RIGHT DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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