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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 838
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2005 | Age: 74 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 |
| BUMPED CHEST ON DUMPSTER DX CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/25/2005 | Age: 88 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 FELL OVER RECYCLING BIN YESTERDAY. DX: CHEST CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2005 | Age: 51 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 INTO METAL DUMPSTER DX: RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/04/2005 | Age: 58 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 AND HIT TRASH CAN, PAIN R RIBS DX: CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2005 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| THOR CONT. PT FELLWHEN PUTTING GARBAGE INTO TRASH CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2005 | Age: 51 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 |
| PT WAS REACHING INTO A HIGH HARD PLASTIC GARBAGE CAN TO RETRIEVE SOMETH ING WHEN SHE FELL STRIKING CHEST ON THE SIDE OF THE CAN CONTUSION CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2005 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| CHEST PAIN-C/O CHEST PAIN SINCE YESTERDAY AFTER HE CARRIED HEAVY TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2005 | Age: 67 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 |
| FELL OVER WASTE BASKET AT NH DX. CHEST CONT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2005 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT WAS CUT BY SHARP OBJECT IN DUMPSTER. DX: PW R NIPPLE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2005 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| PATIENT SLIPPED ONTO THE TRASH CAN SUSTAINING A RIGHT CHEST WALL CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/28/2005 | Age: 83 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 OVER TRASH BIN FX RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2005 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 RIBCAGE ON TRASHCAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2005 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| FELL HIT TRASH CAN LEFT RIB INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2005 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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 |
| NOT WORK RELATED FELL AGAINST DUMSTER INJURING RIB AREA...CONTUSION TO RIBS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2005 | Age: 52 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CONTUSION CHEST - PATIENT COMPLAINS OF RIGHT SIDED RIB PAIN - REPORTS H E RAN INTO END OF DUMPSTER - PAIN WORSENING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2005 | Age: 62 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT CLIMBED UP ON TOP OF LARGE DUMPSTER TO CRUSH MATERIAL WHEN PT FELL I NTO DUBMPSTER ~6 FEET. D: RIB CONTUSION, NON-SUTURABLE LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2005 | Age: 79 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, Wheelchairs |
| FELL BACKWARDS ONTO PLASTIC TRASH CAN WHEN GOING TO SIT IN WHEELCHAIR DX; 7TH AND 8TH RIB FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/29/2005 | Age: 52 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 |
| PAIN CARRYING GARBAGE CAN DX. UPPER BACK STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2005 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | 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 |
| PATIENT WAS AMBULATING TO BATHROOM; LOST HER BALANCE; FELL HITTING POS TERIOR CHEST ON METAL WASTE BASKET AND THEN TO FLOOR. LT. RIB FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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