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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 167
See also: Lethal accidents, Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/16/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Rugs or carpets |
| TOOK 2 RUGS FROM PUBLIC TRASH CAN AND NOW HAS SCABIES AND WORMS FROM TH EM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL OFF DUMPSTER, HIT HEAD, PT FELL 5-6 FT, DX TRAUMATIC ARREST/DOA |
| Disposition: Fatality, including DOA, died in the ED, brain dead |
| Date: 10/13/2003 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Telephones or telephone accessories |
| PT STATES HE FELLINTO A DUMPSTER TRYING TO RETRIEVE A CELL PHONE DEVELOPED DIZZINESS AND VOMITED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT PUNCTURED HAND ON A RUSTY DUMPSTER STARTED ON *** AND STARTED ITCHIN G , SNEEZING ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2003 | 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT C/O CHEST PAIN WHEN COMING DOWN OFF OF HEROIN, FOUND SLEEPING NEXT TO DUMPSTER ON THE STREET DX:CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2003 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attended |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| IN HOUSE FIRE;SMOKING CIGARATTE WHICH WAS NOT PUT OUT COMPLETELY IN TRA SH CAN AND CAUGHT FIRE;SMOKE INHALATION;FIRE DEPT ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2003 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Paper products |
| INHALATION OF SMOKE WHEN BIN WITH BURNING NEWSPAPER OPENED, C/O BURNING TO NARES. D: IRRITATED NOSE MUCUSOS MEMBRANES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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