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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,272
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/22/2004 | Age: 44 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 |
| PATIENT PULLED GARBAGE CAN TO ROAD AT HOME. DX-CHEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2004 | Age: 23 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 |
| CLOSED DUMPSTER LID & TWISTED BACK DX THORACIC STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2004 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RIB FXS-FELL-HIT CHEST ON TRASH CAN-IN THE STREET |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2004 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS EMPTING TRASH WHEN STUCK IN CHEST BY HYPODERMIC NEEDLE AT MEDICA L SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2004 | Age: 36 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 |
| 36 YO MALE PICKED UP TRASH CAN LAST NIGHT AND HURT BACK THORACIC STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2004 | Age: 49 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 |
| SLIPPED, CARRYING GARBAGE CAN DX. CHEST STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2004 | Age: 80 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 |
| RT RIB CONTUSION.PT FELL INTO A TRASH CAN AND INJURED RIBS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | 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, Bags |
| AFTR SCHL AT DETENTION, JMPD IN DUMPSTER RETREIVING TRASH BAGS, HX OFPN EUMOTHORAX, TO CHI UC C/O CHST PAIN, TRX TO ED, ADMIT SURG;PNMOTHORAX |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/22/2004 | Age: 45 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 FELL AGAINST A GARBAGE PAIL LAST EVENING CONTUSION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2004 | Age: 54 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 AND STRUCK CHEST ON A TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2004 | Age: 44 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 LIFTING GARBAGE CANS TO DUMPSTER AND BANGED RIB CAGE ON EDGE FRACTUR ED RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2004 | Age: 2 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: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CUT UPPER BACK ON CERAMIC GLASS IN WASTE BASKET, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2004 | Age: 21 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 |
| FELL OVER TRASH CAN DX. CHEST CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2004 | Age: 21 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 |
| THOR BACK STR. PT WAS INJURED WHEN PICKING UP A TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/02/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SUST LACERATION TO CHEST FELL ONTO GARBAGE CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2004 | Age: 21 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRUNK AB-SCRATCHED BY A RACCOON THAT JUMPED OUT OF GARBAGE CAN-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2004 | Age: 17 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 |
| PT DX SPRAINED BACK - DUE TO LIFTING INJURY,SIMILAR EPISODE 2 WEEKS AGO AFTER LIFTING GARBAGE CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/10/2004 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 FELL AND STRUCK CHEST ON TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 05/21/2004 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Keys, key rings or key chains |
| PT DROPPED HIS CAR KEYS INTO A TALL GARBAGE CAN WHEN HE REACHED INTO TH E CAN TO GET THEM HE STUBMLED STRIKING CHEST STRAINED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2004 | Age: 58 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 |
| R RIB FX/58YOF FELL ON THE LIP OF A GARBAGE CAN 5 DAYS AGO. C/O A[PI NI N CHEST UNDER R BREAST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2004 | Age: 60 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 |
| 60 Y.O. W FEMALE W/RIB PAIN. PT REACHED INTO A GARBAGE CAN & FELT A POP IN HER RIB @ HOME. E927 |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2004 | Age: 78 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 |
| CHEST CT-REACHING INTO A DUMPSTER-HIT CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/19/2004 | Age: 84 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, Step stools |
| PT WAS SITTING ON A STEP STOOL AND WAS LEANING OVER TO THROW A KLEENEX IN THE WASTEBASKET FELL OFF THE STOOL STRIKING CHEST CONTUSION RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEANING INTO DUMPSTER AND FELL DX' CHEST WALL HEMATOMA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/24/2004 | Age: 66 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 |
| PT CARRYING A HEAVY GARBAGE CAN TO THE ROADWAY AT HOME WHEN SHE DEVELOP ED SEVERE CHEST PAIN ADMITTED FOR ANGINA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 02/17/2004 | Age: 72 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 CT-TRIPPED OVER BEDROOM GARBAGE CAN & FELL |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 02/02/2004 | Age: 48 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 STATES HE WAS LIFTING AND BENDING PICKING UP TRASH CANS AT HOME AND DEVELOPED UPPER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2004 | Age: 78 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 WAS BRINGING IN GARBAGE PAIL AND FELL FORWARD AND STRUCK UPPER CHEST AND UNDER ARMS HEMATOMA NOTED CHEST WALL CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| 43 YO FEMALE FELL INTO DUMPSTER WHILE EMPTYING TRASH CONTUSION LEFT CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2004 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| THOR STR. PT WAS INJURED WHEN TAKING OUT TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2004 | Age: 53 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 |
| FELL WHILE PUSHING TRASH CAN. DX RIB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/21/2004 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Day wear |
| PT INVOLVED IN TRASH CAN FIRE 3 DAYS AGO. SHIRT CAUGHT FIRE. BURNS TO C HEST FROM NIPPLES TO NAVEL. ?FDA. D:1ST/2ND/3RD DEGREE BURNS, CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2004 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| PT. FELL INTO HARD PALSTIC GARBAGE BIN LAST WEEK. C/O BREAST PAIN. L.W. T. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/04/2004 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| PATIENT WAS HURT WHILE LIFTING HEAVY GARBAGE CAN. DX: UPPER CHEST & UPPER BACK PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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