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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 846
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/14/2004 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 49 YO MALE FELL OFF DUMPSTER KNEE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/13/2004 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT KNEE SPR. PT WAS TAKING OUT TRASH CAN AND SPRAINED KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| R PATELLA DISLOCATION/20YOM STS APPROX 30 MIN AGO KICKED A TRASH CAN ON THRUWAY WITH L FOOT AND FELL DOWN DISLOCATING R KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/02/2004 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL OFF WASTE BASKET DX. KNEE ABRASIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 11/02/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HIT RT KNEE ON A DUMPSTER 2 DAYS AGO, SUSTAINED ABRASION THAT BECAME INFECTED, CELLULITIS RT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2004 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL CARRYING TRASH CAN DX. KNEE CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2004 | Age: 14 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Pictures, picture frames or wall decorations |
| FELL ON GARBAGE CAN AND LACERATED KNEE ON BROKEN PICTURE FRAME THAT WAS IN CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/22/2004 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT KNEE CONTUSION.PT FELL OVER A TRASH CAN AND HIT KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2004 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CLIMBING INTO DUMPSTER BEHIND ***, LAC LT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TURNED TO GO INTO HOUSE, KNEE GAVE OUT AND FELL INTO TRASH CAN AT HOME. DX; KNEE SPRAIN, SHOULDER CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2004 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WRESTLING WITH BROTHER WHEN ACCIDENTALLY CUT LEG/KNEE ON TRASH CAN. DX: LACERATION KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2004 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE AND INJURED KNEE. DX KNEE SPRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Laundry baskets |
| TRIPPED OVER LAUNDRY BASKET THEN A TRASH CAN, FELL ONTO LEFT KNEE DX: KNEE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2004 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 35 YEAR OLD MALE FELL OVER TRASH CAN AT SHERATON LEFT KNEE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2004 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| KNEE POPPED TAKING OUT TRASH KNEE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2004 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PULLING TRASH CAN, HURT KNEE DX KNEE STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2004 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PEDESTRIAN ON CONER WHEN CAR HIT TRASH CAN CAUSING IT TO HIT HIM IN THE KNEE DX:KNEE ABRASION, LEG PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2004 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRIPPED OVER A GARBAGE CAN. DX. R KNEE INJURY, R/0 INTERNAL DERANGEMENT . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2004 | Age: 40 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| KNEE LAC-CUT ON A GARBAGE CAN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2004 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FRACTURE KNEE - 58 YOM WAS PULLING A TRASH CAN ACROSS THE STREET WHEN H E WAS STRUCK BY A CAR, THROWN UP ONTO THE HOOD, INJURED HIS LEFT KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2004 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PAIN TO KNEE HIN ON RECYCLE BIN DX: CONTUSION TO KNEE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2004 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT KNEE STRAIN.PT WAS PULLING A TRASH CAN AND FELT A POP IN KNEE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2004 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRIPPED OVER A TRASH CAN LEFT KNEE CONTUSION LEFT HAND COSNTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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