Accidents - Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins - Year 2008 - Upper Trunk

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,001
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

0-5 years old:	6
6-15 years old:	40
16-25 years old:	44
26-50 years old:	824
50+ years old:	1,085

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/28/2008	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
PT RECEIVED THORACIC STRAIN WHEN FELL IN YARD TRIPPED WHILE PULLING GARBAGE CAN AT HOME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/25/2008	Age: 74 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
RIB CONTUSION..PT TRIPPED OVER A TRASH CAN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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, Telephones or telephone accessories
61 YOM WAS REACHING INTO DUMPSTER TO GET PHONE CHEST WALL STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/02/2008	Age: 48 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
48 YO FELL ON TRASH CAN INJURED SIDE FX RIB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/01/2008	Age: 46 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
LEANED OVER DUMPSTER WHILE THROWING IN GARBAGE - PRESENTS WITH RIB PAIN AFTER HEARING A "POP". CHEST WALL PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2008	Age: 59 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: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
DX SUSPECTED RIB FX: C/O LOWER L RIG PAIN, BUNRN'G SENSAT'N W HE COUGH PAIN STATED 2D AGO AFTER PULL'G HARD ON GARBAGE BIN LOADED W DIRT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
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
FELL HITTING CHEST ON GARBAGE DUMPSTER DX: CONTUSION TO CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/16/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Male	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 WAS ROLLING HIS GARABGE CAN TO THE END OF HIS DRIVEWAY AND EXPERIEN CED SEVERE CHEST PAIN ADMITTED FOR CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 11/13/2008	Age: 85 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
BACK CT-FELL WHILE PUTTING LEAVES INTO GARBAGE CAN-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2008	Age: 46 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
46YO WHITE MALE LIFTED SELF UP ON DUMPSTER,PLACED WEIGHT ON R SIDE,FELT R RIB PAIN, DX R 7TH & 8TH RIB FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/02/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		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 AGAINST AN INDUSTRIAL SIZED DUMPSTER STRUCK CHEST CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2008	Age: 73 years	Sex: Female	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
LEFT RIB FX.PT FELL INTO A TRASH CAN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/20/2008	Age: 25 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
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
25 Y/O C/O RIB PAIN AFTER FALLING TODAY, TRIPPED OVER GARBAGE CAN. DX-CONTUSION CHEST WALL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/15/2008	Age: 46 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
CHEST STR. PT STRAINED CHEST WHEN EMPTYING A TRASH CAN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2008	Age: 93 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
BANGED (R) SIDE RIBS ON A GARBAGE CAN----RIB PAIN R/O FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2008	Age: 75 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
PT FELL AND HIT CHEST ON WASTE BASKET. DX: CHEST CONTUSION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/03/2008	Age: 55 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Workshop furnishings
FELL AGAINST SAWHORSE AND GARBAGE CAN/ RIB FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/30/2008	Age: 44 years	Sex: Male	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
CHEST PAIN. PT WAS EMPTYING A TRASH CAN AND DEVELOPED CHEST PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/20/2008	Age: 66 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
RIGHT RIB STR. PT STRAINED RIBS THROWING TRASH IN DUMPSTER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/18/2008	Age: 56 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 WAS REACHING TO GET RECYCLABLES OUT OF BIN AND SLIPPED HITTING CHEST ON BIN. DX: R 9TH RIB FX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/13/2008	Age: 81 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
FELL CARRYING TRASH CAN/RIB FX
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2008	Age: 58 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
PULLING WEEDS AT HOME, SLIPPED HIT CHEST ON GARBAGE CAN. DX RIB CONTUSI ON
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/25/2008	Age: 12 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
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
PT PLAYING HIDE&SEEK, SLIPPED & FELL OFF DUMPSTER, 10-12 FT HIGH DX; CHEST CONTUSION/ RIGHT HIP CONTUSION, CONCUSSION W/LOC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/24/2008	Age: 82 years	Sex: Female	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
PT WAS GETTING TRASH OUT OF TRASH CAN AND REACHED OVER THE TRASH CAN AN D HAS HAD CHEST PAIN EVER SINCE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2008	Age: 35 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 LIFTED A TRASH CAN. DX: BACK PX.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/20/2008	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
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
PT SUSTAINED CONTUSION TO THE UPPER BACK AFTER FALLING IN THE DUMPSTER@
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/15/2008	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper Trunk		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
81YOM ACCIDENTLY FELL AGAINST A COMMERCIAL GARBAGE CAN LAST NIGHT; RIB FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/09/2008	Age: 49 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
FELL OFF ROOF AND BANGED CHEST WALL ON A DUMPSTER. DX. FX. RIBS, ALCOHO L INTOXICATION.*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/01/2008	Age: 54 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
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 WITH CHEST WALL SPRAIN FROM A FALL ONTO RECYCLING BIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/25/2008	Age: 93 years	Sex: Female	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, Floors or flooring materials
PAIN TO CHEST TRIPPED OVER WASTE BASKET TO FLOOR DX: FRACTURE TO RIB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2008	Age: 85 years	Sex: Female	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
FELL BACK ON TRASH CAN, RIB PAIN DX; FX R 11/12 RIBS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/22/2008	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
RT RIB CONTUSION.PT TRIPPED OVER A TRASH CAN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/07/2008	Age: 82 years	Sex: Male	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
TAKING GARBAGE CANS OUT TO CURB STARTED HAVING CHEST PAIN DX CHEST PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/01/2008	Age: 65 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
FELL INSIDE TRASH CAN DX: FX RIB & WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/22/2008	Age: 34 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, Baseball
PT RAN INTO A DUMPSTER WHILE PLAYING BASEBALL. DX: RIB CONT, R LEG CONT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/03/2008	Age: 52 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 STS STRUCK LOWER STERNUM AGAINST TRASH CAN 3 WEEKS AGO ,C/O CHEST PAIN, DX CHEST WALL PAIN, GERD
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 05/29/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	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
CONTUSION CHEST - 41 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH LEFT SIDED RIB PAIN - WAS LE ANING OVER A METAL DUMPSTER AND FEEL SLIPPED & HIT CHEST ON DUMPSTER
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/25/2008	Age: 85 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: Other
Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins
PT FELL AND HIT GARBAGE CAN AND INJURED RIBS. DX: LEFT RIB PAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		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
WAS LEANING OVER THE EDGE OF A DUMPSTER "DUMPSTER DIVING" AND HAS PAIN TO RIBS AND CHEST DX- CHEST WALL CONT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/05/2008	Age: 40 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
PT SLIPPED IN THE KITCHEN STRUCK CHEST AGAINST A GARBAGE CAN SUSTAINED A RIB CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/13/2008	Age: 64 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
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
SUDDEN ONSET OF NON RAIDATING MIDSTERNAL CHEST PAIN WHIEN BENT OVER TO PICK UP A GARBAGE CAN>> CHEST PAIN/MUSCLE STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/31/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	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
RIB FX. PT FELL INTO A DUMPSTER IINJURING RIBS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/25/2008	Age: 64 years	Sex: Female	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
CHEST CONTUSION WITH RIB FRACTURE - PER NURSE, PATIENT STATES SHE FELL AGAINST WOODEN TRASH CONTAINER.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/24/2008	Age: 40 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
LEFT CHEST WALL STR. PT STRAINED CHEST WHEN FALLING INTO A TRASH CAN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/17/2008	Age: 35 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
WAS LEANING OVER TRASH CAN & FELT POP DX CHEST WALL CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/10/2008	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
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
JUMPED OFF DUMPSTER;DX LACERATED CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/06/2008	Age: 54 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
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
LIFTED A HEAVY GARBAGE CAN LID 2 DAYS AGO HAS UPPER BACK AND SHOULDER PAIN DX- THORACIC STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/01/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
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 WITH CONTUSION TO CHEST, FROM STRIKING A TRASH CAN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/05/2008	Age: 67 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
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
DX CHEST PAIN, NEW LBBB: STARTED AFTE LIFTING SOME OF HIS GARBAGE CANS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2008	Age: 23 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
PT FELL ON METAL BIN CAUSING, NOW C/O RIB PAIN DX: RIB CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/18/2008	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	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
RAN INTO DUMPSTER CONTUSION CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/18/2008	Age: 50 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
PAIN TO CHEST FELL ONTO GARBAGE CAN DX: CONTUSION TO CHEST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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