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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 571
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/17/2003 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRASH CAN LID FELL ON RT. WRIST DX: CONTUSION WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2003 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL TAKING OUT TRASH FX KNEE WRIST SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 08/12/2003 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DX RIGHT WRIST SPRAIN: PUSHING LARGE TRASH CAN AND BENT WRIST BACK AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2003 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRIPPED & FELL WHILE TAKING OUT GARBAGE. ACUTE CLOSED FX LT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2003 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FRACTURED WRIST WHEN FELL MOVING GARBAGE CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2003 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FRACTURED WRIST WHEN FELL WHEN PICKING UP TRASH CAN TO TAKE GARBAGE OUT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2003 | 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: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT WRIST SPRAIN-REMODELING-THROWING WOOD INTO DUMPSTER-FELT PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2003 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL OVER GARBAGE CAN AND FRACTURED WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2003 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| STRAINED WRIST WHEN PUSHING A WASTE CONTAINER |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 02/27/2003 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL OVER TRASH CAN; FX WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2003 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LT WRIST FX-FELL GETTING GARBAGE CAN FROM SNOWBANK-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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