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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 778
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/26/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL CARRYING GARBAGE CAN. DX-FRACTURE R TIBIA # |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/07/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH AND CUT LEG WITH BROKEN GLASS. D: RIGHT L EG LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WITH LAC TO LEG FROM TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| SLID OFF CUTTING LOWER LEG ON SIDE OF DUMPSTER VERSUS ON A PIECE OF MET AL STICKING OUT OF DUMPSTER>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH AND CUT LEG ON BROKEN GLASS. D: LACERATI ON RIGHT LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT TIB/FIB FX.PT FELL OVER A TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CUT LEG ON GARBAGE CAN LID. DX: R CALF LAC 6 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT FIBULA FX.PT TRIPPED OVER A TRASH CAN AND FELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2008 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT DROPPED SOMETHING IN GARBAGE DUMPSTER AMD WENT IN TO GET IT, CLIMBING OVER HIT CORNER OF DUMPSTER WITH LEG. DX-LAC. LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 11 YO MALE PULLED TRASH CAN FULL OF BRICKS OVER ON SELF ACCIDENTALLY CONTUSION LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT DROPPED WASTE CAN ONTO LEG. DX: L LEG CONT/ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/16/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH AND CUT LEG ON SOMETHING. D: LACERATION L EFT LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Fences or fence posts |
| TRIPPED INTO A METAL GARBAGE CAN AND GATE. DX LACERATION LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 51 YO F LACERATION LOWER LEG CUT ON TRASH CAN AT HOME* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 22 YO MALE HAS BURN TO RIGHT CALF FROM HOT TRASH CAN FULL OF COALS FROM BBQ - SECOND DEGREE BURN CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT DX CELLULITIS AND ABCESS OF LT LEG - STORAGE BINS AT HOME FELL ON HER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SUS LACERATION TO LEG AFTER GETTING CUT BY SOMETHING SHARP IN THE GARBAGE CAN% |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Tablet or capsule drugs |
| 84 YOF LACERATED RIGHT LOWER LEG ON PLASTIC TRASH CAN, PT TAKING *** BU T BLEEDING CONTROLLED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Animal induced injury |
| ABRASION TO SHIN, TAKING OUT TRASH CAN AND TRIPPED OVER CAT, FALLING FORWARD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/05/2008 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CUT LEG ON TRASH CAN. DX; LEG LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC TO LEG WHENS TRUCK ON A TRASH CAN AT SCHOOL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LIFTING TRASH BIN EMPTYING IN DUMPSTER ON TOES STRAIN RIGHT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/02/2008 | Age: 92 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS WEEDING AT HOME LOST BALANCE AND FELL INTO A METAL TRASH CAN SUS TAINED SKIN TEARS TO LOWER LEGS AND ARMS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PLAYING WITH COUSIN AND LAC LEG ON SOME GLASS STICKING OUT OF TRASH BAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2008 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT LEG STR. PT FELL OVER A TRASH CAN INJURING LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WITH LAC TO LEG FROM TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TAKING OUT TRASH CAN AND CUT LOWER LEG ON SOME GLASS IN IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2008 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL WHILE TRYING TO JUMP OVER GARBAGE CANS HAS LAC TO (L) SHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2008 | Age: 93 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL AND HIT TRASH CAN, RLL LAC DX; RLL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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