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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,087
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2003 | Age: 4 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: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC CHEST WALL ON BROKEN GLASS IN TRASH CAN WHEN HE WAS TAKING IT OUTSIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2003 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| 53 Y/O W/M RECEIVED PAIN TO (L) RIB AND ABDOMEN WHEN GOT OUT OF TRUCK TO MOVE GARBAGE TRUCK WENT INTO REVERSE PINED HIM BTW DOOR AND CARPORT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/03/2003 | Age: 46 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 |
| AFTER LIFTING GARBAGE CANS, DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN DX: STRAIN CHEST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/29/2003 | Age: 48 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, Football |
| PT CRAWLING OUT OF A DUMPSTER AFTER GETTING A FOOTBALL OUT AND INJURED LT RIB AREA DX: LT CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2003 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | 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, Tables |
| 65 YEAR OLD FEMALE FELL OVER TRASH CAN INTO TABLE CONTUSION RIGHT CHEST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2003 | Age: 41 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: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| STRAIN UPPER BACK - PATIENT PRESENTS WITH ACUTE THRONIC BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING A DUMPSTER LID AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2003 | Age: 86 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 |
| CHEST WALL PAIN - 86 YOF C/O CHEST PAIN AFTER FALL S/P TAKING TRASH CAN OUT YESTERDAY, DID HAVE SOME PAIN RIGHT BACK AND HIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2003 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| AT 1230 TODAY WAS PEELING POTATOES @ HOME, STOOD UP & FELL BACKWARDS & STRUCK HEAD ON TRASH CAN, NAUSEA/DIAPHORETIC/WOOZY. DX MYOCARD INFARC |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/18/2003 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| TRASH CAN FELL ON PATIENT DX: T12 & L2 COMPRESSION FRACTURE, CONTUSIONS/ABRASIONS BIL LOWER LEGS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2003 | Age: 68 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 |
| PATIENT TRIPPED OVER A TRASH CAN AND FELL, R3SULTING IN CONTUSION TO HE R CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2003 | Age: 64 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 |
| HIT CHEST ON DUMPSTER YESTERDAY DX: CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2003 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PAIN CARRYING GARBAGE CAN OUT DX. CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/03/2003 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| LIFTED GARBAGE CAN TWISTED BACK DX: THORASIC STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2003 | Age: 38 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 |
| PT WAS LIFTING HER RECYCLING BIN THIS AM STRAINED CHEST MUSCLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2003 | Age: 79 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 |
| MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES - 79 YOM FELL WHILE EMPTYING THE TRASH, HAS MULT IPLE RIB FRACTURES AND IN RESPIRATORY DISTRESS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/26/2003 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PAIN CARRYING A GARBAGE CAN OUT DX. CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2003 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 OFF GARBAGE CAN. ABRASION TO (L) BACK.. C/O PAIN. DX: CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2003 | 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 |
| PT SEEN FOR BACK STRAIN AFTER LIFTING GARBAGE CONTAINER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2003 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | 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, Furniture |
| PT RAMMED INTO DUMPSTER WHEN MOVING FURNITURE CAUSING INJ TO CHEST DX:CHESTWALL STRAIN/PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2003 | Age: 43 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 WAS STANDING ON DUMPSTER WHILE CUTTING TREE BRANCH, FELL, HIT CHEST ON HANDLEBARS OF DUMPSTER, CONTUSION TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2003 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | 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. HIT HER RIBCAGE ON A TRASH BIN CONTUSION RIBCAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/15/2003 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HAD BACK PX AFTER MOVING GARBAGE CAN WHICH WAS ON FIRE. FD NS. DX: PT LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/14/2003 | Age: 31 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 |
| 31 YO M TAKING TRASH CAN OUT FELL -C/O RIB PAIN FX RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2003 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| 67 YO MALE DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN WHILE CARRYING OUT TRASH CAN CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 07/05/2003 | Age: 52 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 |
| PT HIT SELF INTO PIECE OF METAL OFF DUMPSTER WHEN PUTTING OUT TRASH AT HOME DX:RIB BRUISES/CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/18/2003 | Age: 44 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 |
| 44 YOM HIT RIB AREA ON DUMPSTER CONTUSION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2003 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 80 Y OF R RIB PAIN AFTER FALLING, HITTING RIBS ON GARBAGE CAN. DX RIB F RACTURES |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/06/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 SLIPPED/FELL INTO TRASH CAN 30MINS PTA NOW C/O CHEST PN, STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2003 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| BACK PAIN AFTER LIFTING HEAVY GARBAGE PAIL-DX-UPPER BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2003 | Age: 88 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 |
| PT. BECAME DIZZY AND PASSED OUT - FELL AGAINST WOODEN TRASH CAN AND FRACTURED TWO RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2003 | Age: 46 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 |
| PT LIFTING A CAN FULL OF YARD WASTE AT HOME STRAINED CHEST MUSCLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2003 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| CLINICAL RIB FX-FELL ONTO A WASTE BASKET-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2003 | Age: 30 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 |
| PINNED BETWEEN CAR AND DUMPSTER IN FRONT OF HOME DX: CHEST CONTUSION / HIP CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2003 | Age: 36 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 PULLED MUSCLE IN SIDE WHEN LEANING OVER TRASH DUMPSTER. D: CHEST WAL L CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/10/2003 | Age: 76 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 |
| RIB FRACTURES.PT PULLED IN A TRASH CAN AND FELL AND STRUCK CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/09/2003 | Age: 46 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, Keys, key rings or key chains |
| BEND OVER TRASH CAN TO PICK UP KEYS FX RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/13/2003 | Age: 53 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 WAS MOVING DUMPSTER WHICH FELL ON HIM 2 DAYS AGO. DX: R RIB FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/11/2003 | Age: 42 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 |
| CHEST WALL CONTUSION,RT EAR LACERATION.PT WAS TAKING OUT A TRASH CAN AN D FELL ON THE ICE AND HIT CHEST ON TRASH CAN AND LACERATED EAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2003 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| PAIN L RIB AREA & L HIP.FELL OFF DUMPSTER LAST MP.DX RIB & ABD CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2003 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | 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 PUSHING RECYCLING BIN, FELL ONTO TRASH BIN INJURING RIBS DX: CONTUSION RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2003 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| CHEST WALL CONTUSION AFTER TRYING TO CLIMB INTO A DUMPSTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/25/2003 | Age: 60 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 |
| CONTUS L CHEST; SLIPPED & HIT SIDE ON DUMPSTER, L RIB AREA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/24/2003 | Age: 71 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 |
| TRIPPED OVER GARBAGE CAN 3 DAYS PRIOR CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2003 | Age: 69 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 |
| PT FELL FROM GARBAGE CAN ONTO LOG. DX: CHEST CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2003 | Age: 43 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 |
| PICKED UP TRASH CAN TO THROW IN DUMPSTER.L SHOULDER BLADE,NECK & L ARM PAIN.DX L TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE STRAIN/THORACIC STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2003 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| L RIB PAIN/STRAIN; PAIN NOTED WHILE PULLING TRASHCAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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