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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 418
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/31/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| PT SUSTAINED LAC TO LEG AFTER SHE ACCIDENTALLY HIT LEG ON A GARBAGE BAG WITH BROKEN GLASS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2007 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| CUT LOWER LEG ON GLASS IN TRASH BAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2007 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| SEVERED ACHILLES TENDON - UNKNOWN OBJECT IN TRASH BAG CUT BACK OF LEG AS HE WAS TAKING OUT THE TRASH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/06/2007 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| CUT LOWER LEG ON SOMETHING IN PLASTIC TRASH BAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/17/2007 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| 6YOF MOTHER WAS CARRING PLASTIC GARBAGE BAG,SOMETHING RUBBED AGAINST PATIENTS LOWER LEG;LEG LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/15/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| 14 YOM WAS TAKING THE TRASH OUT, & CUT THE BACK OF HIS LT CALF ON SOME- THING IN THE TRASH BAG. DX: LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| CUT BY SOMETHING IN PLASTIC TRASH BAG/LOWER LEG LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2007 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| 12 Y/O M INJURED R CALF WHILE TAKING OUT PLASTIC TRASH BAG THAT HAD BRO KEN GLASS IN IT AT HOME. DX; LAC R LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2007 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags, Glass bottles or jars |
| PATIENT CLEANING OUT GARAGE, BRUSHED LEG AGAINST PLASTIC BAG WITH BROKE N GLASS BOTTLE INSIDE CUTTING LET; LEG LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| PT WAS WALKING OUTSIDE AND SLIPPED ON A PLASTIC BAG FRACTURED LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/08/2007 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| WAS TAKING OUT TRASH AT HOME; CUT LOWER LEG. LACERATION, RIGHT LOWER LE G |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2007 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Plastic bags |
| PT WAS CARRYING PLASTIC GARBAGE BAG OUT TO GARBAGE CAN WHEN A PIECE OF GLASS CAME THROUGH BAG CUTTING HIS RT LEG. DX: RT LEG LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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