Moment woman tumbles into recycling bin after trying to clean it

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A woman landed herself in A&E after falling into her wheelie bin and injuring her shoulder.

CCTV captured the moment Jane Green, 63, was washing and soaping down her recycling bin when the wheels rolled out from underneath her.

As she was reaching down into the green bin at the time, she pushed it over and fell even deeper into it while trying to haul herself up on March 8.

Footage showed Jane pulling herself out of the toppled bin, cradling her shoulder and rocking back and forth in pain.

A passerby heard Jane shouting for her husband and called for an ambulance.

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Jane said: ‘I’d soaked it in water and then it was a lovely day, and I thought I’d give it a final clean and that’s when it happened.

‘I put my head in and then the bin slid away and I fell inside it!

‘It was on its side, and I clambered out of it and knew that I’d done something quite dramatic.

‘It’s still very painful now.’
She said that she struggled to move in the days following the accident, adding: ‘I won’t be going near that wheelie bin again!’
People who have suffered shoulder fractures, also called humeral fractures, typically wear slings for several weeks.

They can cause soreness, limited mobility, muscle loss and a sore neck as other body parts work harder to compensate for the broken bones.

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