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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 426
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/30/2003 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CUT HAND ON BROKEN LID TO TRASH CAN DX LAC HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2003 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LOST CONTROL OF WHEELED TRASH CAN AND FELL. DX: 3 CM R HAND LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2003 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SEEN FOR HAND LAC AFTER CUTTING IT ON A METAL TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2003 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PUSHING GARBAGE CAN HANDS GOT CAUGHT & PT FELL DX: BILAT HAND CONTUSIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2003 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HAD A DUMPSTER LID FALL ONTO RIGHT HAND AS SHE WAS THROWING TRASH AW AY AT HER APT COMPLEX CONTUSION HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2003 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT C/O PARTIAL TENDON LACERATION RT 2ND MCP TODAY S/P GARBAGE CAN HIT RT HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2003 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DX RIGHT HAND SPRAIN: TAKING OUT GARBAGE AND INJURED HAND AFTER FALLING ONTO HAND AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2003 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Ceilings and walls |
| LACERATION HAND - PATIENT REPORTS SHE HAD WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN WALL AND D UMPSTER AT HOME CAUSING LACERATION TO RIGHT PALMER ASPECT OF HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2003 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT SUSTAINED LACERATION TO HAND AFTER TAKING GARBAGE OUT AND CUT H AND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/31/2003 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LAC R HAND; STUMBLED OVER GREEN TRASH TOTER HE WAS PUSHING & FELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2003 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| MC FX-AT HOME-TRIPPED-FELL ON UNEVEN DRIVEWAY-CARRYING GARBAGE CANS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2003 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| GARBAGE CAN LID FELL ON PTS HAND, INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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