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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 985
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CUT FINGER ON GARBAGE CAN DX: R THUMB LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/23/2005 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Bags |
| RIGHT THUMB LAC, PT WAS TAKING OUT TRASH CAN WHEN CUTTING THUMB ON GLAS S STICKING OUT OF PLASTIC BAG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 55 YO FEMALE CUT FINGER ON METAL TRASH CAN LACERATION INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CLOSED THE LID OF A DUMPSTER ONTO RIGHT INDEX FINGER LACERATION FING ER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Metal containers |
| REACHED IN TRASH CAN TO GET POP CAN TO PUT CIGARETTE ASHES IN, CUT LEFT MIDDLE FINGER ON BROKEN GLASS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2005 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT WAS EMPTYING SOME TRASH CANS, CAUGHT HIS FINGER ACROSS THE TOP OF FENCE & SUSTAINED A LT 4TH DIGIT TIP AVULSION/LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT DX AVULSION/LACERATION - AT DISTAL PHALANX OF LT MIDDLE FINGER - DUE TO HANDLING GARBAGE BIN TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| SLAMMED FINGER ON DUMPSTER DOOR DX FINGER LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2005 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CUT R 3RD DIGIT ON METAL GARBAGE CAN DX: FINGER LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2005 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TAKING GARBAGE CAN OUT LACERATION LEFT THUMB TIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2005 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT 3RD FINGER FRACTURE.PT HAD A TRASH CAN FALL AND HIT FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2005 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT WAS STUNG OR BITTEN BY INSECT ON RT THUMB WHILE CARRYING OUT A TRASH CAN TO THE CURB SUSTAINING AN INSECT ENVENOMATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2005 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SHUT THUMB IN A DUMPSTER DOOR. " CONTS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2005 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| ANIMAL BITE - 67 YOM WAS REACHING INTO A TRASH CAN AND WAS BITTEN ON HI S RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BY A RAT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2005 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LACERATED FINGER ON A PC OF WOOD IN A DUMPSTER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2005 | 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: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A LARGE PIECE OF STONE INTO A DUMPSTER, WHEN SLIPPED CRUSHING PT'S FINGER SUSTAINED" LAC" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2005 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT. CUT ON EDGE OF GARBAGE BIN AT HOME. DX. LAC R INDEX FINGER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT STRUCK THE BASE OF INDEX FINGER ON THE DUMPSTER WHILE TOSSING THE TR ASH SUSTAINED SUSTAINED" CONTS" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/19/2005 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT WAS TAKING GARBAGE CAN TO CURB, LOST BALANCE, FELL ON PAVEMENT. DX-LACERATION RIGHT THUMB. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2005 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LACERATED FINGER ON SHARP EDGE OF A DUMPSTER AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2005 | Age: 80 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 80 Y/O W/FM RECEIVED PUNCTURE MARKS TO FINGER AFTER STUCK HAND IN GARBAGE CAN AND WAS BITEN BY AN OPOSSIUM AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DUMPSTER COVER FELL ONTO HAND AND LAC AND FX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/27/2005 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Metal containers |
| PT PUSHING TRASH DOWN IN A GARBAGE CAN AT HOME WHEN THERE WAS A TIN CAN IN THE TRASH STRUCK LEFT THUMB LACERATION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/19/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SUST SPRAIN TO FINGER ON GARBAGE CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/10/2005 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Amputation |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION RT INDEX AND RING FINGERS.PT HAD A DUMPSTER LID SL AMM AND JAM ON FINGERS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/28/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Crushing |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT.INJ.RT.5TH.FINGER AT HOME WHEN PUTTING THINGS IN GARBAGE CAN & SOMET HING FELL & HIT FINGER. DX; CRUSH INJ.RT.5TH.FINGER TIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/08/2005 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Tableware and accessories |
| PT REACHED INTO RECYCLE BIN & WAS CUT ON BROKEN GLASS DISH. DX: 6 CM R INDEX LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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