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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 477
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 08/30/2008 | Age: 67 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 |
| PT FELL WHILE TRYING TO PULL OUT YARD WASTE BIN. DX: R WRIST FX, L WRIST SPRAIN, LUMBAR CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2008 | Age: 80 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 |
| 80 YOF FELL WHILE MOVING TRASH CAN THROUGH YARD AT HOME FRACTURE WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| GARBAGE CAN FELL ONTO PT WHILE HE WAS LOADING IT W/BRUSH. DX: R WRIST FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/04/2008 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Female | 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, Floors or flooring materials |
| PT WAS CARRYING A GARBAGE CAN AND SLIPPED ON FLOOR, RIGHT WRIST FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/21/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| REPORTEDLY SLIPPED&FELL WHILE THROWING THE TRASH IN THE DUMPSTER CUTTIN G WRIST/FOREARM ONTO A SHARP ?OBJECT>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2008 | Age: 89 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 |
| PT WAS CLEANING OUT TRASH CAN AND FELL IN, NOW W/SWELLING AND DEFORMITY TO R WRIST. DX. R DISTAL RADIUS FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2008 | Age: 85 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 |
| WRIST FX-TRIED TO GRAB A GARBAGE CAN TO PREVENT A FALL-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/16/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PICKING UP GARBAGE CAN LID, CAUGHT BY WIND AND STRAINED WRIST/ SPRAIN LT WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 54 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 |
| SMACKED HER RT WRIST ON THE DUMPSTER 2 DAYS AGO WHILE LOADING TRASH, C/ O PAIN TO RT WRIST. FRACTURE RT WRIST* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LID TO DUMPSTER SHUT ON L FOREARM. DX L WRIST CONTUSION# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Wrist | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 58 YO INJURED WRIST PUSHING DOWN IN TRASH CAN LAC WRIST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2008 | Age: 83 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 |
| LEFT WRIST FX.PT WAS TAKING OUT A TRASH CAN AND FELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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