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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 178
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/24/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| HIT IN EYE W GARBAGE CAN LID DX CORNEAL ABRASION R EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT CORN ABR. PT WAS LIFTING A GARBAGE CAN WHEN SOMETHING FLEW OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CONTUSION TO EYE WHEN STRUCK ON A TRASH CONTAINER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/29/2007 | Age: 20 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FOUND BROKEN GLASS IN TRASHCAN, AT HOME, & PICKED IT UP. SIS TRIED TO GET IT AWAY , & GLASS GOT IN PT'S LT EYE. DX: FB IN EYE- GLOBE INJ. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/26/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| GARBAGE CAN LID POPPED UP AND HIT PT IN THE EYE. DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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