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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 717
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/30/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LIFTING HEAVY GARBAGE CAN AT HOME, STRAINED LT ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2005 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT ELBOW CONT. PT FELL AND HIS ELBOW ON A DUMPSTER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HAD TRASH CAN FALL ON ELBOW; ELBOW CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2005 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT THROWING TRASH IN DUMPSTER, BANGED RT ELBOW, CONTUSION ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2005 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HIT ELBOW ON A DUMPSTER CONTUSING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/25/2005 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LIFTED A HEAVY GARBAGE CAN AT HOME YESTERDAY STRAINED RIGHT ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 30 YO MALE HIT LEFT ELBOW ON METAL DUMPSTER CELLULITIS LEFT ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2005 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PUNCTURE WOUND WHEN PICKING UP GARBAGE. DX. PUNCTURE WOUND L ELBOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2005 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC L ELBOW, VIA EMS, MOTHER STS PT SUST INJURY WITH A GARBAGE CAN AT HOME, C/O BLEEDING, PAIN, TENDERNESS, NORMAL ROM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2005 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Basketball |
| PT DX LT ELBOW CONTUSION - HIT ELBOW ON GARBAGE CAN LID WHILE PLAYING BASKETBALL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/20/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TAKING OUT TRASH CAN & LAC LT ELBOW ON SOMETHING SHARP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2005 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SUS SPRAIN TO ELBOW PUTTING OUT THE GARBAGE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2005 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| ELBOW FRACTURE, WAS ROLLING WITH COUSIN IN TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT STATES THERE WAS A FIRE IN TRASH CAN AT HOME AND BURNT ELBOW AND FOOT TRYING TO HELP PUT FIRE OUT, NOT STATED IF FIRE DEPT PRESENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/08/2005 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| R ARM PAIN, DUMPSTER LID FELL ON IT DX: STRAIN R ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/07/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC TO ELBOW AREA OF L ARM AFTER RUNNING INTO SOME GLASS THAT WAS STICK ING OUT OF A GARBAGE CAN. DX. LAC L ELBOW. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2005 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL 2 DAYS AGO AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE HIT ELBOW AGAINST GARBAGE DUMPSTER C/O REDNESS & PAIN DX: L ELBOW CELLULITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/27/2005 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT DUMPED INTO GARBAGE CAN WHILE PLAYING WITH FRIENDS @SCHOOL TODAY CUT TING LT ELBOW ON GLASS, LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS THE DAMPING THE TRASH INTO THE DUMPSTER THE LID SLIPPED ON ICE H ITTING THE PT'S ELBOW SUSTAINED" ELBOW CONTUSION" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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