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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 443
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/01/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL CARRYING GARBAGE CAN DX, HUMERUS FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2005 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS THROWING SOME TRASH INTO A DUMPSTER AND FELT A POP IN LEFT UPPER ARM STRAINED BICEOPS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2005 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT HUMERUS FRACTURE.PT FELL OVER A TRASH CAN AND INJURED UPPER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT WAS STANDING ON A TRASH CAN TRYING TO CUT SOME BUSHES AND ACCID. IMPALED HIMSELF ON IRON FENCE LACERATING HIS RT UPPER ARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRASH CAN BURNING FLARED UP INTO FACE, ARMS AND LEGS AT SCHOOL. DX BUR NS FACE, R/L ARMS, R/L LEGS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2005 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CONTUS/ABRAS L UPPER ARM, SHOULDER & ELBOW; STATES TRIPPED ON DUMPSTER WHILE MOWIN - STATES HAD 6 BEERS TONIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2005 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| INJURED ARM PULLING A GARBAGE PAIL DX: R UPPER ARM STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2005 | Age: 87 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRIP OVER WASTEBASKET FX ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/29/2005 | Age: 30 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LACERATION UPPER ARM - PATIENT REPORTS RIGHT UPPER ARM WAS INCISED WITH COVER OF DUMPSTER AT HOME YESTERDAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/04/2005 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT COMPLAINING OF LEFT SHOULDER PAIN AFTER TRIP & FALL WHILE TAKING OUT HIS GARBAGE CANS. DX - PROXIMAL HUMEROUS FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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