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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 328
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/16/2003 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Foot | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| WHILE PT WAS WALKING AROUND IN PLAY PLASTIC DRESS UP SHOES AND FOOT FEL L INWARD - PT NOW LIMPING. D: CONTUSION LEFT FOOT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| F.B. (L) EYEBALL, MOTHER STS PT PLAYING W/A MASK, GLITTER PARTICLES FELL INTO HIS EYEBALL AT HOME, C/O PAIN, PHOTOPHOBIA, REDNESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2003 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT TWISTED ANKLE WHILE RUNNING AT SCHOOL, ALSO HAS ITCHY BUMPS, RASH ON FOREHEAD S/P WEARING HALLOWEEN MASK; ANKLE SPRAIN, CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT AT A PUBLIC HALLOWEEN PARTY WHEN SHE SWALLOWED HER FANGS (PART OF HE R COSTUME) FOREIGN BODY INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2003 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| URTICARIA-GENERALIZED BODY-AFTER WEARING NEW HALLOWEEN COSTUME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/15/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Dislocation |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| TWISTED ARM TAKING OFF A COSTUME DX: NURSEMAID'S ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2003 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| ACCIDENTLY HIT WITH *** CAPE FACIAL LAC FACIAL LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2003 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Pubic Region | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| 10YO BOY WEARING UNICORN COSTUME RPTDLY PUT HIS FINGER IN HER BTM @ CHI LDREN'S WORLD DAYCARE, TCHR IN OTHR RM CHNGING F/DRESS UP; SEXUAL ABUSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2003 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PATIENT HAD A MASK ON, BAND BROKE HITTING HIM IN THE LEFT EYE. DX-LEFT PERIORBITAL CONTUSIONS/ABRASIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/13/2003 | Age: 9 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Costumes or masks, Rugs or carpets |
| PT WAS DROPPED FROM THE EASTER BUNNIES LAP TO A CARPETED SURFACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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